Frederick Giermann

Frederick Giermann

Movies for Frederick Giermann...

Women in the Night
Title: Women in the Night
Character: Major Eisel
Released: January 2, 1948
Type: Movie
During WW2 six allied nations women at Shanghai University are arrested by the Germans accused of killing a German officer and forced to entertain the Japanese.
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Calcutta
Title: Calcutta
Character: Tea Planter (uncredited)
Released: December 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Neale and Pedro fly cargo between Chungking and Calcutta. When their buddy Bill is murdered they investigate. Neale meets Bill's fiancée Virginia and becomes suspicious of a deeper plot while also falling for her charms.
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A Night in Casablanca
Title: A Night in Casablanca
Character: Kurt
Released: May 10, 1946
Type: Movie
The Marx Brothers are employed at a hotel in postwar Casablanca, where a ring of Nazis is trying to recover a cache of stolen treasure.
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Address Unknown
Title: Address Unknown
Character: Bank Clerk (uncredited)
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
When a German art dealer living in the US returns to his native country he finds himself attracted to Nazi propaganda.
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Calling Dr. Death
Title: Calling Dr. Death
Character: Marion's Father (as Fred Gierman)
Released: December 17, 1943
Type: Movie
Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.
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Hostages
Title: Hostages
Character: Captain Patzer
Released: August 11, 1943
Type: Movie
After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers are held captive by the Nazis accused of murder and collusion with the Czech resistance.
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Background to Danger
Title: Background to Danger
Character: Attaché
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
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Action in the North Atlantic
Title: Action in the North Atlantic
Character: German Submarine Captain (uncredited)
Released: June 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Merchant Marine sailors Joe Rossi (Humphrey Bogart) and Steve Jarvis (Raymond Massey) are charged with getting a supply vessel to Russian allies as part of a sea convoy. When the group of ships comes under attack from a German U-boat, Rossi and Jarvis navigate through dangerous waters to evade Nazi naval forces. Though their mission across the Atlantic is extremely treacherous, they are motivated by the opportunity to strike back at the Germans, who sank one of their earlier ships.
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Above Suspicion
Title: Above Suspicion
Character: German Border Guard (Uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1943
Type: Movie
Two newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Five Graves to Cairo
Title: Five Graves to Cairo
Character: German Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: May 26, 1943
Type: Movie
The British Army, retreating ahead of victorious Rommel, leaves a lone survivor on the Egyptian border who finds refuge at a remote desert hotel. He assumes the identity of a recently deceased waiter and is helped by the hotel's owner, despite protest from the French chambermaid, who fears the imminent arrival of Rommel and the Germans.
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Plan for Destruction
Title: Plan for Destruction
Character: Nazi Radio Announcer
Released: April 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Plan for Destruction is a 1943 American short propaganda film directed by Edward Cahn. It looks at the Geopolitik ideas of the ex-World War I professor, General Karl Haushofer, who is portrayed as the head of a huge organization for gathering information of strategic value and the mastermind behind Adolf Hitler's wars and plans to enslave the world. The film was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
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Edge of Darkness
Title: Edge of Darkness
Character: German Pilot (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
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The Moon Is Down
Title: The Moon Is Down
Character: Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: March 14, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of a small town in Norway that resists German occupation during World War II. Based on a John Steinbeck novel.
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The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Title: The Adventures of Smilin' Jack
Character: Schlesser, device expert [Chs. 10-11]
Released: January 5, 1943
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 chapters: The famous comic strip character is on a mission to protect a secret tunnel passage between China and India.
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They Stooge to Conga
Title: They Stooge to Conga
Character: U-Boat Commander (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1943
Type: Movie
The Stooges are repairmen who get a job fixing the doorbell in large house which is the secret headquarters of some Nazi spies. They manage to ruin most of the house while working on the wiring and then subdue the spies and sink an enemy submarine by remote control.
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The Great Impersonation
Title: The Great Impersonation
Character: Stamin
Released: December 18, 1942
Type: Movie
An Englishman kills a German look-alike and poses as a Nazi spy in London.
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Once Upon a Honeymoon
Title: Once Upon a Honeymoon
Character: German Getting Film from Le Blanc (uncredited)
Released: November 27, 1942
Type: Movie
A radio correspondent tries to rescue a burlesque queen from her marriage to a Nazi official.
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Lucky Jordan
Title: Lucky Jordan
Character: Bulky Gardener
Released: November 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Lucky Jordan is a gangster living in New York City and when he's drafted into the army, he tries to escape duty by using an old con woman named Annie to convince the draft board he's needed at home. When that fails, Jordan is sent to boot camp, but he doesn't stay there long. He takes a beautiful USO worker hostage and flees back to New York. There, he learns that a rival gangster is plotting against America.
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Hitler- Dead or Alive
Title: Hitler- Dead or Alive
Character: Meyer
Released: November 12, 1942
Type: Movie
A team of ex-con bounty hunters go to Germany in search of Hitler. If they can find him, a million dollar reward is to be paid to them.
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Destination Unknown
Title: Destination Unknown
Character: Van Hoven
Released: October 9, 1942
Type: Movie
Foreign spies and police pursue an attractive Dutch spy throughout Peking.
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Unseen Enemy
Title: Unseen Enemy
Character: Franz Mueller, as Frederick Gierman
Released: March 10, 1942
Type: Movie
The Unseen Enemy in this wartime meller is Nick (Leo Carrillo), the outwardly effusive manager of a San Francisco waterfront café. To make enough money to ensure his daughter Gen's (Irene Hervey) entree into society, Nick sells his services to a gang of foreign spies, who then use Nick's establishment as a rendezvous point. The plan is to covertly send out a Japanese vessel for the purpose of raiding and destroying American merchant ships. The spies' secret code is hidden in the lyrics of a song called "Lydia", which the unwitting Gen performs on request day after day.
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Sergeant York
Title: Sergeant York
Character: German Lieutenant (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1941
Type: Movie
Alvin York a hillbilly sharpshooter transforms himself from ruffian to religious pacifist. He is then called to serve his country and despite deep religious and moral objections to fighting becomes one of the most celebrated American heroes of WWI.
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The Deadly Game
Title: The Deadly Game
Character: Carl Nash
Released: August 8, 1941
Type: Movie
A pre-World War II saber-rattler that finds a munitions inventor kidnapped, a federal agent killed and a beautiful refugee mysteriously missing as Washington's deadly game of espionage and intrigue thunders on...as the FBI hunts the nation's invisble foes! They may have been invisible but their accents and billing names von Morhart, William Vaughn (William von Brincken already hiding under another name before hostilities were formally declared), Frederick Gierman and Walter Bonn---provide clues aplenty as to their country of origin and paymaster.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Radioman
Released: June 28, 1941
Type: Movie
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich set between two brothers, Kurt and Erik Franken, whom are SS officers in the Nazi party. Kurt learns and exposes the evils of the system to Erik and tries to convince him of the immoral stance that marches under the symbol of the swastika.
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So Ends Our Night
Title: So Ends Our Night
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1941
Type: Movie
An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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Escape
Title: Escape
Character: Porter (uncredited)
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
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Calling Philo Vance
Title: Calling Philo Vance
Character: Austrian Sergeant (uncredited)
Released: February 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to foreign powers. He grabs the plans with Archer's signature, but is captured by police before he can escape. Deported he comes back to America and plans to confront Archer, but Archer is found dead in his locked bedroom with a gun in his hand. While it looks like a suicide, Vance knows better and the coroner finds that Archer has been shot, hit with a blunt instrument and stabbed - making suicide unlikely. But Vance is on the case and is looking to see if government secrets have been sold and who has murdered Coe. This is a remake of "The Kennel Murder Case" using aircraft designs and espionage instead of Chinese porcelain and dog shows.
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British Intelligence
Title: British Intelligence
Character: Otto Kurtz
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
During WWI pretty German master spy Helene von Lorbeer is sent undercover to London to live with the family of a high-placed British official where she is to rendezvous with the butler Valdar, also a spy, and help him transmit secret war plans back to Germany.
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Title: Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Character: Father Pommer
Released: October 7, 1939
Type: Movie
Hans Memling, a young intellectual, patriotic German, is secretly opposed to the Nazi regime. With the aid of Gustav Schultz, Father Pommer, Anna Wahl and others, he is gleaning accurate information from foreign radio broadcasts and distributing it through Germany with an underground-press operation.
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Espionage Agent
Title: Espionage Agent
Character: German Officer on Train
Released: September 30, 1939
Type: Movie
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplomatic service to go undercover to route out an espionage ring planning to destroy American industrial capability.
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: German-American at Bund Meeting (uncredited)
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.