Alfred Zeisler

Alfred Zeisler was born on September 26, 1897 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.

He wrote the script to "Rivalen" (1923), in 1925 he realised the movie "Hinter den Kulissen der Reichspost" (1925)as a director and in 1928 he appeared in front of the camera as an actor for the movie "Die Carmen von St. Pauli". His versatility in the film business continued in the next years and he appeared especially as a director and producer.

American-born producer/director/writer, who worked in Germany from 1924. He left Germany after the Nazis came to power and returned to the U.S. after a brief stint in France. He freelanced as a director of low-budget films for various Poverty Row studios in the 1940s, later using his fluency in German to appear as an actor, playing assorted Nazi officers and functionaries, in several Hollywood films of the early 1950s.

To his well-known movies as a director belong the cyclist comedy "Strich durch die Rechnung" (1932) with Heinz Rühmann ), "Der Stern von Valencia" (1933) and later in the emigration the movies"Crime Over London" (1936), "The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss" (1936) with Cary Grant and "Fear" (1946).

As a producer he was responsible for movies like "Viktor und Viktoria" (33), "Gold" (1934) and "The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss" (1936).

He was a producer and director, known for Fear (1946), Der Schuß im Tonfilmatelier (1930) and Enemy of Women (1944). He was married to Lien Deyers.

After Alfred Zeisler ( Jewish film producer and director) had fled abroad with his wife Lien Deyers view of being arrested. The actress Marika Rokk acquired his confiscated -by the Nazis- villa in Potsdam-Babelsberg and lived there with her husband. The in 1985 deceased Zeisler said he never received a penny for his confiscated house.