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Wolfgang Zilzer is a Actor American born on 20 january 1901 at Cincinnati (USA)

Wolfgang Zilzer

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Nationality USA
Birth 20 january 1901 at Cincinnati (USA)
Death 26 june 1991 (at 90 years) at Berlin (German)

Wolfgang Zilzer (January 20, 1901 – June 26, 1991) was a German-American stage and film actor, often under the stage name Paul Andor.

Biography

Zilzer was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, to German-Jewish emigrant Max Zilzer, who was engaged at the local theater. Zilzer's mother died soon after his birth, and his father returned to Germany in 1905.

Zilzer appeared on stage in child roles and made his first movie appearance in the age of 14. Around 1930, he moved back to the United States, but had only small success as an actor. He returned to Germany. According to a 1943 Jewish Telegraphic Agency newspaper article, he "was a featured player of UFA in the palmy days before the Furore [Hitler]", but after Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Zilzer fled to France, where he worked dubbing voices in several French versions of Hollywood productions. In 1935, Zilzer returned to Germany again, finally emigrating to the USA in 1937. Applying for a visa at the U.S. embassy, he first realized he already had US citizenship. After his emigration, he started to work with Ernst Lubitsch in several anti-Nazi movies, using pseudonyms to protect his father, who was still living in Berlin. With appearances in films from 1915 to 1986, Zilzer had one of the longest careers in cinema history. The Internet Broadway Database lists a single credit for a Wolfgang Zilzer, in the 1943 play The Barber Had Two Sons.

Zilzer married the German-Jewish actress Lotte Palfi; both appeared in the 1942 movie Casablanca. Zilzer played the man without a passport who is shot by French policemen at the beginning of the film. After World War II, Zilzer performed on stage in the United States and in Germany.

At the end of the 1980s Zilzer contracted Parkinson's disease and decided to return to Germany. His wife refused to do so, and their marriage ended in divorce after almost 50 years, close to both their deaths.

Wofgang Zilzer died in Berlin and is buried at the Waldfriedhof Zehlendorf.

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Filmography of Wolfgang Zilzer (54 films)

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Lovesick
Lovesick (1983)
, 1h35
Directed by Marshall Brickman
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Actors Dudley Moore, Elizabeth McGovern, Alec Guinness, Christine Baranski, Wallace Shawn, Ron Silver
Roles Analyst
Rating52% 2.6081252.6081252.6081252.6081252.608125
Psychologist Saul Benjamin takes on a patient temporarily as a favor to a colleague friend, Otto Jaffe, who is infatuated with her. After her doctor dies, Chloe Allen comes to see Dr. Benjamin and immediately he is smitten with her, too.
Union City
Union City (1980)
, 1h27
Directed by Marcus Reichert
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Noir, Crime, Romance
Actors Dennis Lipscomb, Debbie Harry, Sam McMurray, Everett McGill, Terry Walsh, Taylor Mead
Rating59% 2.994962.994962.994962.994962.99496
Harlan (Lipscomb) is a repressed, uptight accountant living in an apartment block with his beautiful, neglected wife Lillian (Harry). He becomes obsessed with discovering who is drinking from the milk bottles left outside his apartment every morning, so he ties some cord to a bottle which will alert him when it's taken, and through this he finds the culprit to be a homeless war veteran (Sam McMurray). The vagrant apologises but the obsessive Harlan attacks him, knocking him down and seemingly cracking his skull. In a panic he hides the body behind the folding bed in another vacant apartment opposite his own.
Mister Buddwing, 1h40
Directed by Delbert Mann
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities
Actors James Garner, Jean Simmons, Suzanne Pleshette, Angela Lansbury, Katharine Ross, Jack Gilford
Roles Man on the Street (uncredited)
Rating60% 3.0002353.0002353.0002353.0002353.000235
Waking up on a New York park bench, a man's mind is a total blank. He has no identification on him, just a slip of paper in his pocket with a phone number on it.
Singing in the Dark
Directed by Max Nosseck
Genres Drama, Musical, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about religion, Films about psychiatry, Films about disabilities, Political films, Films about Jews and Judaism
Actors Mickey Knox, Lawrence Tierney, Kay Medford, Wolfgang Zilzer
Roles Refugee
Rating69% 3.4633153.4633153.4633153.4633153.463315
Leo, the main character, is a Holocaust survivor who suffers from total amnesia. When he immigrates to the U.S. he manages to find a job as a hotel desk clerk. When he accepts a drink in the hotel bar, he suddenly starts singing, amazing those around him—and himself—with his magnificent voice. Taking advantage of his gift, he begins singing in nightclubs. Eventually, with the help of a psychiatrist and partly as a result of a blow to the head during a mugging, his memories begin to return, and he realizes that he is the son of a great Jewish Hazzan (Cantor) in Europe. As memories of his parents, who perished in the Holocaust, return to him, he abandons his nightclub career to follow his father's footsteps as a synagogue cantor. The final scene shows Leo (who now remembers that his real name is "David") singing during a synagogue service.
Walk East on Beacon!, 1h38
Directed by Alfred L. Werker
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors George Murphy, Finlay Currie, Virginia Gilmore, Karel Štěpánek, Louisa Horton Hill, Peter Capell
Roles August Helmuth
Rating57% 2.8969552.8969552.8969552.8969552.896955
Federal agent Belden (George Murphy) is assigned to locate the communist mastermind behind the leak, and to trace all avenues of informational access utilized by the Communists. Professor Albert Kafer (Finlay Currie) a scientist who is being blackmailed by the Reds into cooperating with them, while Alexi Laschenkov (Karel Stepanek) is the top Eastern-Bloc spy.
Women in the Night, 1h32
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller
Themes Spy films
Actors Tala Birell, William Henry, Richard Loo, Virginia Christine, Bernadene Hayes, Jean Brooks
Roles German Doctor
Rating46% 2.3446752.3446752.3446752.3446752.344675
This script must be run from the command line
Counter-Attack, 1h30
Directed by Zoltan Korda
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Paul Muni, Marguerite Chapman, Larry Parks, Roman Bohnen, George Macready, Ludwig Donath
Roles Krafft
Rating67% 3.386283.386283.386283.386283.38628
In 1942, both Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union are gathering forces and supplies in one particular sector of the Eastern Front for a major attack. The Soviets are secretly constructing a bridge at night over a river. To avoid detection, it is being built underwater, just below the surface.
Hotel Berlin, 1h38
Directed by Peter Godfrey, Peter Godfrey
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Faye Emerson, Helmut Dantine, Raymond Massey, Andrea King, Peter Lorre, Alan Hale
Rating67% 3.391183.391183.391183.391183.39118
The lives of various desperate people intersect at the Hotel Berlin, a hotbed of Nazis, officers, spies and ordinary Germans trying to weather the inevitable defeat. Martin Richter, a leader of the German underground who has escaped from Dachau concentration camp, is hiding there, aided by some of the staff. He is hunted by Joachim Helm, who has his headquarters in the same building. Another hotel guest is Nobel laureate Johannes Koenig, Richter's friend from before the war and in Dachau.
Stairway to Light, 10minutes
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Historical
Actors Wolfgang Zilzer, John Nesbitt, Gene Roth, Harry Cording, Dewey Robinson, Harry Wilson
Roles Dr. Philippe Pinel (uncredited)
Rating61% 3.095553.095553.095553.095553.09555
Enemy of Women, 1h25
Directed by Alfred Zeisler
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Documentary films about war, Documentary films about historical events, Political films, Documentary films about World War II
Actors Wolfgang Zilzer, Claudia Drake, Robert Barrat, Donald Woods, H. B. Warner, Sigrid Gurie
Roles Dr. Joseph Goebbels
Rating51% 2.583352.583352.583352.583352.58335
Joseph Goebbels, a down-on-his-luck playwright, boards with Col. Eberhardt Brandt. While there, Goebbels falls in love with Brandt's daughter, Maria, an aspiring actress who does not return his affections. When Goebbels tries to force himself on Maria, Col. Brandt kicks him out of the house, and Goebbels joins the Nazis. Later, as propaganda minister, Goebbels manipulates Maria's career and attempts to force a relationship with her. Maria again rejects him, and he uses his power to blacklist her.
Casablanca
Casablanca (1943)
, 1h42
Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Crime, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet
Roles Man with Expired Papers (uncredited)
Rating84% 4.2485354.2485354.2485354.2485354.248535
Set in December, 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine is the proprietor of an upscale nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele: Vichy French, Italian, and German officials; refugees desperate to reach the still neutral United States; and those who prey on them. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, it is later revealed he ran guns to Ethiopia during its war with Italy and fought on the Loyalist side against the fascist Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.
Behind the Rising Sun, 1h28
Directed by Robert Aldrich, Edward Dmytryk
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War
Themes Political films
Actors Margo, Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Ryan, Gloria Holden, Donald Douglas
Roles Max
Rating56% 2.808662.808662.808662.808662.80866
The film's opening scene is set in 1943 Japan. Reo Seki (J. Carrol Naish) is presented with the ashes of his dead son, Taro Seki (Tom Neal), and blames himself for the death.
Bomber's Moon, 1h7
Directed by Harold D. Schuster, Edward Ludwig, Robert Florey, John Brahm
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Aviation films, Political films, Disaster films, Films about aviation accidents or incidents
Actors George Montgomery, Annabella, Kent Taylor, Walter Kingsford, Martin Kosleck, Dennis Hoey
Roles Nazi Doctor Treating Jeff
Rating66% 3.306173.306173.306173.306173.30617
Captain Jeff Dakin (George Montgomery) is shot down over Germany on a bombing raid as he sees his brother, Danny (Richard Graham) serving on the same aircraft, shot dead as he parachutes out of the stricken aircraft. Imprisoned in a camp, Dakin conspires with Alexandra "Alec" Zorich (Annabella), a beautiful Russian doctor, and Captain Paul Husnik (Kent Taylor), a Czech resistance leader, to mount an escape. They escape during an air raid and make their way towards safety, but the Czech is not who he seems.
Margin for Error, 1h14
Directed by Otto Preminger
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Crime
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Joan Bennett, Milton Berle, Otto Preminger, Carl Esmond, Howard Freeman, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Roles Bit Part
Rating58% 2.90552.90552.90552.90552.9055
When police officer Moe Finkelstein Milton Berle and his colleague Officer Salomon are ordered to serve as bodyguards to German consul Karl Baumer (Otto Preminger) 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. Capt. Mulrooney, who appointed them to this job, tells Moe that although the mayor personally is opposed to Adolf Hitler and his regime, the mayor is responsible for the safety of everybody, and he feels that through this Job Finkelstein can show them the difference between their system and the Nazi one.