Wolfgang Zilzer

Wolfgang Zilzer

Born: January 20, 1901
Died: June 26, 1991
in Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
German-American actor.

Movies for Wolfgang Zilzer...

Lovesick
Title: Lovesick
Character: Analyst
Released: February 18, 1983
Type: Movie
Sigmund Freud's ghost advises a married New York psychiatrist in love with a patient.
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The Diary of Anne Frank
Title: The Diary of Anne Frank
Character: Kraler
Released: November 26, 1967
Type: Movie
During World War II, a teenage Jewish girl named Anne Frank and her family are forced into hiding in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands.
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Mister Buddwing
Title: Mister Buddwing
Character: Man on the Street (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1966
Type: Movie
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
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Singing in the Dark
Title: Singing in the Dark
Character: Refugee
Released: March 7, 1956
Type: Movie
Leo, a holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia, comes to the U.S. and works as a hotel desk clerk. One night while a comedian who owns a bar in the hotel gives him a drink, he breaks out in song and discovers a great voice. Under a psychiatrist's treatment, and because of a blow to the head by some hoodlums, he realizes his name is David and that he was the son of a great Jewish Cantor, and gradually recovers his memory of losing his parents. He gives up a promising career singing in nightclubs to return to the synagogue.
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Walk East on Beacon!
Title: Walk East on Beacon!
Character: August Helmuth
Released: June 1, 1952
Type: Movie
An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston.
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Stairway to Light
Title: Stairway to Light
Character: Dr. Philippe Pinel (uncredited)
Released: November 3, 1945
Type: Movie
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells the story of 18th Century French physician Dr. Philippe Pinel, who initiated enlightened, humane treatment of the mentally ill.
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Counter-Attack
Title: Counter-Attack
Character: Krafft
Released: April 26, 1945
Type: Movie
Two Russians fight to escape the seven Nazi soldiers trapped with them in a bombed building.
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Hotel Berlin
Title: Hotel Berlin
Released: March 2, 1945
Type: Movie
An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany as the Third Reich falls.
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Enemy of Women
Title: Enemy of Women
Character: Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Released: November 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Playwright Joseph Goebbels turns Nazi propagandist and loses his girlfriend to another man.
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Bomber's Moon
Title: Bomber's Moon
Character: Nazi Doctor Treating Jeff
Released: August 5, 1943
Type: Movie
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.
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Behind the Rising Sun
Title: Behind the Rising Sun
Character: Max
Released: August 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A Japanese publisher urges his American-educated son to side with the Axis.
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Appointment in Berlin
Title: Appointment in Berlin
Character: Cripple (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1943
Type: Movie
The "war of nerves" which gripped the European continent in 1938, is the background for this war thriller starring George Sanders.
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Hitler's Madman
Title: Hitler's Madman
Released: June 10, 1943
Type: Movie
In 1942, a young paratrooper in the RAF returns to Czechoslovakia to encourage his fellow countrymen to sabotage the German war effort.
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Margin for Error
Title: Margin for Error
Character: Bit Part
Released: February 10, 1943
Type: Movie
When police officer Moe Finkelstein and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer by the mayor of New York City, Finkelstein turns in his badge, convinced he has to quit the service because the man is a Nazi.
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Casablanca
Title: Casablanca
Character: Man with Expired Papers (uncredited)
Released: January 15, 1943
Type: Movie
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
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The Devil with Hitler
Title: The Devil with Hitler
Character: Otto Schultz (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Adolf Hitler, Benito and Suki Yaki are placed in a series of Three-Stooges routines, with the premise that the Board of Directors of Hell has put the Devil on notice they intend to replace him with Adolf Hitler unless he can get Hitler to commit a good deed. The devil has his work cut out for him, and doesn't appear likely to escape being replaced by the German leader.
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Invisible Agent
Title: Invisible Agent
Character: Von Porten (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany in this comedy-thriller.
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To Be or Not to Be
Title: To Be or Not to Be
Character: Man in Bookstore (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
During the Nazi occupation of Poland, an acting troupe becomes embroiled in a Polish soldier's efforts to track down a German spy.
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Underground
Title: Underground
Character: Hoffman
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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Out of Darkness
Title: Out of Darkness
Character: Leon Rochelle (uncredited)
Released: March 29, 1941
Type: Movie
This John Nesbitt's Passing Parade short tells of the Nazis' efforts to shut down an underground resistance newspaper in occupied Belgium.
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So Ends Our Night
Title: So Ends Our Night
Character: Vogt (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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Forbidden Passage
Title: Forbidden Passage
Character: Otto Kestler
Released: February 8, 1941
Type: Movie
This MGM Crime Does Not Pay series short looks at the U.S. Department of Immigration's efforts to halt the smuggling of illegal aliens into the country. Desperate immigrants, tired of waiting for legal entry, pay exorbitant fees and risk a grisly death to enter by illegal means.
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Escape
Title: Escape
Character: Pavillion Counter Clerk (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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A Dispatch from Reuters
Title: A Dispatch from Reuters
Character: Post Office Clerk (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1940
Type: Movie
German Julius Reuter sends 19th-century news by carrier pigeon and then by wire, founding a news agency.
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Three Faces West
Title: Three Faces West
Character: Dr. Rudolf Preussner
Released: July 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Viennese surgeon Dr. Braun and his daughter Leni come to a small town in North Dakota as refugees from Hitler. When the winds of the Dust Bowl threaten the town, John Phillips leads the townsfolk in moving to greener pastures in Oregon. He falls for Leni, but she is betrothed to the man who helped her and her father escape from the Third Reich. She must decide between the two men.
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Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Title: Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
Character: Kellner
Released: February 23, 1940
Type: Movie
True story of the doctor who considered it was not immoral to search for a drug that would cure syphillis.
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Everything Happens at Night
Title: Everything Happens at Night
Character: Thief at Dock
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.
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Ninotchka
Title: Ninotchka
Character: Taxi Driver (uncredited)
Released: November 23, 1939
Type: Movie
A stern Russian woman sent to Paris on official business finds herself attracted to a man who represents everything she is supposed to detest.
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Television Spy
Title: Television Spy
Character: Frome
Released: October 20, 1939
Type: Movie
A scientist invents a television device called the Iconoscope. Foreign agents hear about it and try to steal it.
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Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Title: Hitler: Beast of Berlin
Character: Kleswing
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: Heinrich
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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Hotel Imperial
Title: Hotel Imperial
Character: Limping Tenor (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1939
Type: Movie
It is the fate of a small frontier town, adjoining the no-man's-land where the Russians and Austrians are fighting out one of the final campaigns of World War I, to be occupied one day by the Russians, the next by the Austrians, and the inhabitants soon acquire a complacent view of the changing allegiances. To the town comes Ann Warschaska, intent on avenging the suicide of her sister, who has killed herself after being betrayed by an Austrian officer. She knows no more about his identity than the number of his room at the "Hotel Imperial".
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Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Title: Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Character: Westphal
Released: May 6, 1939
Type: Movie
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
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I'll Give a Million
Title: I'll Give a Million
Character: Citizen (uncredited)
Released: July 27, 1938
Type: Movie
After saving a tramp from suicide, a millionaire takes his clothing and disappears. Word is out that he will give a million dollars to anyone who is kind to a tramp.
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Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Title: Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Character: Book Salesman (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1938
Type: Movie
American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him.
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Raid in St. Pauli
Title: Raid in St. Pauli
Character: Musiker Leo
Released: May 2, 1932
Type: Movie
Illustrates both the powerlessness of the ordinary worker as well as an intimate portrait of the joys and sorrows of a small group of people in the harbor section of Hamburg.
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The High Tourist
Title: The High Tourist
Released: November 27, 1931
Type: Movie
Romantic exploits in Germany's White Mountains.
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Casanova wider Willen
Title: Casanova wider Willen
Released: October 19, 1931
Type: Movie
Jeffrey wants to marry Virginia, who refuses to marry unless her older sister, the hard-to-please Angelica, gets married first.
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Boycott
Title: Boycott
Character: Möller, Oberprimaner
Released: December 14, 1930
Type: Movie
A film about the pupils of a posh Berlin gymnasium in their final term, and their class teacher teaching them about humanism and tolerance, a lesson that would be badly needed three years later.
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Marriage in Name Only
Title: Marriage in Name Only
Character: Max Benken
Released: November 26, 1930
Type: Movie
a movie by Heinz Paul
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Bookkeeper Kremke
Title: Bookkeeper Kremke
Character: Lenes Verlobter, Student
Released: September 14, 1930
Type: Movie
In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payroll clerk loses his job due to technological advances and, unable to find another, descends into despair. The film’s director, Marie Harder, was one of only a few women directors of the time and was also the head of the German Social Democratic Film Office. She made only two known films before her accidental death in exile in Mexico in 1936.
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Such Is Life
Title: Such Is Life
Character: Wooer
Released: March 24, 1930
Type: Movie
A story about domestic life in a typical working-class environment. Life and trials and how little situations have big consequences.
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Crucified Girl
Title: Crucified Girl
Released: August 26, 1929
Type: Movie
The young student Mary spends the beginning of her holiday with boat trips, visits to her wealthy groom, and gardening. In fast-paced, rhythmic cuts, Louise and Jakob Fleck draw their audience into a carefree, urban romantic comedy. With a single scene, however, it turns into a melodrama about sexual violence, shame and perpetrator-victim reversal.
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Geschminkte Jugend
Title: Geschminkte Jugend
Character: Walter
Released: April 17, 1929
Type: Movie
Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.
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Hotelgeheimnisse
Title: Hotelgeheimnisse
Released: March 19, 1929
Type: Movie
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Sir or Madame
Title: Sir or Madame
Released: November 13, 1928
Type: Movie
A girl posing as a knight's male valet is vamped by his fiancée
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Thérèse Raquin
Title: Thérèse Raquin
Character: Camille Raquin
Released: November 4, 1928
Type: Movie
A silent adaptation of the novel by French writer Émile Zola.
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Docks of Hamburg
Title: Docks of Hamburg
Character: The Nipper
Released: October 10, 1928
Type: Movie
When Hamburg ship's mate Klaus Brandt catches a thief one night at the port, his downfall is pre-ordained. For the thief turns out to be a young, attractive woman and the otherwise upright sailor allows her to slip away. Jenny is the star of a local dive bar, with a side-line in smuggling.
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Daughters of Eve
Title: Daughters of Eve
Released: April 3, 1928
Type: Movie
An unmarried showgirl takes a handsome companion with her on a vacation, to the distress of others.
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A Daughter Of Destiny
Title: A Daughter Of Destiny
Character: Wölfchen
Released: January 25, 1928
Type: Movie
Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.
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Das Heiratsnest
Title: Das Heiratsnest
Character: Leutnant Wranow
Released: September 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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Primanerliebe
Title: Primanerliebe
Character: Rolf Karsten
Released: June 2, 1927
Type: Movie
An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults in their lives.
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Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
Title: Mata Hari: the Red Dancer
Released: May 2, 1927
Type: Movie
Mata Hari, die rote Tänzerin (English: Mata Hari: The Red Dancer), often shortened on release to Mata Hari, is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Friedrich Feher and starring Magda Sonja, Wolfgang Zilzer and Fritz Kortner. It depicts the life and death of the German World War I spy Mata Hari. It was the first feature-length portrayal of Hari.
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Venus in Evening Wear
Title: Venus in Evening Wear
Released: April 12, 1927
Type: Movie
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Arme kleine Colombine
Title: Arme kleine Colombine
Character: Christoph Burger
Released: April 6, 1927
Type: Movie
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Schützenliesel
Title: Schützenliesel
Character: Dr. Blasius Nestl
Released: December 21, 1926
Type: Movie
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Die Spinne
Title: Die Spinne
Released: February 2, 1917
Type: Movie
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Der Barbier von Filmersdorf
Title: Der Barbier von Filmersdorf
Released: June 11, 1915
Type: Movie