Max Nosseck
Max Nosseck(19 September 1902 – 29 September 1972) was a Germanfilm director,actor, and screenwriter.[1]
Biography
[edit]Nosseck was born inNakel,then inPrussia,but now inPoland.Nosseck established himself as a director in theGerman Film Industry,but due to hisJewishbackground he was forced to emigrate following theNazitakeover in 1933. He directed films inFrance,Spain,theNetherlands,andUnited States.
In 1934 Max Nosseck directedBuster Keaton,then struggling with alcoholism and a messy divorce, in the French featureLe Roi des Champs-Élysées.
Nosseck's American films typed him as a director of sensationalist subjects, usually juvenile-vagrancy melodramas. His most famous "exploitation" film isDillinger(1945), a gangster picture chronicling the rise and fall ofJohn Dillinger.The film starredLawrence Tierney,with whom Nosseck reunited for two crime thrillers in later years. In a surprising turnabout, Nosseck directed two wholesome animal adventures in 1946 and 1947.
After his American assignments, he returned to work in the German and Austrian film industries. Nosseck married three times: to Austrian actressOlly Gebauer,to German actressIlse Steppat,and to the writer and aviator Genevieve Haugen.
He died inBad Wiessee.
Selected filmography
[edit]Director
- Liebeskleeblatt(1930)
- Dance Into Happiness(1930)
- Einmal möcht' ich keine Sorgen haben(1932)
- All Is at Stake(1932)
- Wild Cattle(1934)
- Una semana de felicidad (1934)
- Le Roi des Champs-Élysées(1934)
- De Big van het Regiment(1935)
- Aventura oriental(1935)
- Oranje Hein(1936)
- Poderoso caballer (1936)
- Overture to Glory(1940)
- Girls Under 21(1940)
- Gambling Daughters(1941)
- Dillinger(1945)
- The Brighton Strangler(1945)
- Black Beauty(1946)
- The Return of Rin Tin Tin(1947)
- Kill or Be Killed(1950)
- Korea Patrol(1951)
- The Hoodlum(1951)
- Garden of Eden(1954)
- The Captain and His Hero(1955)
- And Who Is Kissing Me?(1956)
- Singing in the Dark(1956)
Screenwriter
- Munchhausen in Africa(1958)
Actor
- Derby(1926)
- Liebeskleeblatt(1930)
- Dance Into Happiness(1930)
- Sperrbezirk(1966)
- How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?(1970)
- Gentlemen in White Vests(1970)
References
[edit]- ^"BFI | Film & TV Database | NOSSECK, Max".Archived fromthe originalon 2009-09-04.Retrieved2011-03-28.
External links
[edit]| International | |
|---|---|
| National | |
| People | |
| Other | |
 | This article about a German film director is astub.You can help Wikipedia byexpanding it. |
- 1902 births
- 1972 deaths
- People from Nakło nad Notecią
- Male actors from Kuyavian-Pomeranian Voivodeship
- Jewish German male actors
- German male film actors
- German male silent film actors
- 20th-century German male actors
- German film directors
- Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
- German film director stubs