Robert Siodmak

Robert Siodmak

Nacimiento : 1900-08-08, Dresden, Germany

Muerte : 1973-03-10

Historia

​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.   Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 - 10 March 1973) was a German born American film director. He is best remembered as a thriller specialist and for the series of Hollywood film noirs he made in the 1940s. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Siodmak, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Perfil

Robert Siodmak

Películas

A Big Grey-Blue Bird
Two rival gangs try to obtain the five parts of a dangerous formula held by five scientists.
The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal
Director
Cetege consigue iniciar la guerra entre los ostrogodos y su reina, Amalasuntha, y el imperio bizantino, pero cuando el ejército de Bizancio invade Italia para reconquistar Roma, en poder de los godos, el romance se impone y amenaza con dar al traste con los planes de Cetege.
La invasión de los bárbaros
Director
Cethegus (Laurence Harvey), líder de la nobleza romana, viaja a Bizancio para reunirse con el emperador Justiniano (Orson Welles) y reunir un ejército que pueda frenar el avance de los godos. Su propósito es aprovecharse de este enfrentamiento para adueñarse del poder.
La última aventura del general Custer
Director
El comandante de la Armada de los Estados Unidos, George Armstrong Custer, es un flamante héroe de la Guerra Civil exterminado por los Sioux y Cheyenne en la batalla de Little Big Horn, en 1876.
Pyramid of the Sun God
Director
Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.
Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
Director
Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
Yellow Devil
Screenplay
When a villain named "the Shoot" terrorizes the constituents of Albanian country, which he rules. Heroic Kara Ben Nemsi (Lex Barker), and his sidekick are the only ones who can stop him
Yellow Devil
Director
When a villain named "the Shoot" terrorizes the constituents of Albanian country, which he rules. Heroic Kara Ben Nemsi (Lex Barker), and his sidekick are the only ones who can stop him
Túnel 28
Director
Alemania, 1962. La ciudad de Berlín se haya divida por el gran Muro que separa la parte comunista de la capitalista en la época del Telón de Acero. En este contexto, Karl Schröder (Don Murray) es un chófer que trabaja para el gobierno de la Alemania del Este y que es testigo en primera persona del asesinato de un amigo mientras conducía su coche. Animado por la hermana de dicho amigo, Erika Jurgens (Christine Kaufmann), traza un plan para escapar al sector oeste de la ciudad. ¿Su plan? Excavar un túnel por debajo del muro.
The Nina B. Affair
Screenplay
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
The Nina B. Affair
Director
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
Mein Schulfreund
Producer
Mein Schulfreund
Director
Katia
Director
El Zar Alejandro II (1855-1881) toma como amante a la bella estudiante Katia, lo que supone un fulgurante ascenso social para la joven, que llega incluso a recibir el título de princesa. En la corte del zar, donde las intrigas se suceden sin tregua y Katia se convertirá en el epicentro de una de ellas cuyo objetivo es el asesinato del zar de todas las Rusias.
The Rough and the Smooth
Producer
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
The Rough and the Smooth
Director
Young blonde woman seems to destroy everyone she comes in contact with.
Dorothea Angermann
Director
Dorothea Angermann the daughter of a clergyman is accused of the murder of her husband, a brutal man that she was obliged to marry because she was pregnant and he was the father of the baby.
El diablo ataca de noche
Director
Hamburgo, Alemania, 1944, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Un asesino en serie aterroriza la ciudad. Cuando parece claro que la policía local es incapaz de atraparlo, fuerzas tan oscuras y terribles como el propio criminal se hacen cargo del caso.
Mein Vater, der Schauspieler
Director
Because Diva Christine believes that her husband is cheating on her, she hurtles away and dies. Only the little son prevents the widower from committing suicide.
The Rats
Director
After the fall and before the wall.
Flesh and the Woman
Director
In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.
El temible burlón
Director
Siglo XVIII. Todo un clásico del cine de piratas que narra las correrías de Burt Lancaster y su acrobático e inseparable compañero Cravat, unos temibles corsarios que aterrorizan a las tripulaciones de los barcos que navegan por el Mediterráneo.
The Whistle at Eaton Falls
Director
Un supervisor de planta recién ascendido se encuentra en la posición de tener que anunciar el despido de sus compañeros de trabajo.
Deported
Director
The real-life deportation of gangster Lucky Luciano was the inspiration for this romanticized and slightly crackbrained crime drama. Jeff Chandler plays the Luciano counterpart, who once he arrives in Italy renews his criminal activities.
El caso de Thelma Jordon
Director
Una misteriosa mujer inicia un romance con el fiscal de distrito. Él intuye que ella le oculta algo, y sus sospechas se confirman con el hallazgo de un cadáver.
El gran pecador
Director
Adaptación de la novela de Dostoiesvki "El jugador". Un hombre se debate entre su pasión por el juego y las buenas intenciones de quien intenta alejarlo de él.
El abrazo de la muerte
Director
Un olvidado de la bienaventura (Burt Lancaster) regresa a la ciudad natal, donde busca sin quererlo a su exposa (Yvonne de Carlo), que ahora se halla saliendo con un conocido gángster (Dan Duryea). La manipulativa mujer y el criminal se relamen cuando Lancaster propone el gran golpe: asaltar el carro blindado que él mismo va a conducir..
Una vida marcada
Director
Un astuto y peligroso delincuente que ha matado a un policía es perseguido por un teniente de homicidios que fue su compañero de juegos durante la infancia, cuando ambos vivían en el barrio italiano (Little Italy) de Nueva York.
Time Out Of Mind
Producer
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
Time Out Of Mind
Director
The son of a wealthy Maine family shocks his relatives by announcing he wants to pursue a career in music.
A través del espejo
Director
Un médico aparece asesinado. La principal sospechosa es una mujer que fue vista abandonando el escenario del crimen, pero cuando la policía empieza a investigar hará un sorprendente descubrimiento.
Forajidos
Director
Una vez terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), Swede Lunn, un soldado veterano y boxeador en declive, encuentra dificultades para reincorporarse a la vida civil. Un día conoce a la novia de un gángster, la irresistible y misteriosa Kitty Collins.
La escalera de caracol
The Killer's 'Eye' (uncredited)
Una joven muda (McGuire) trabaja en una gran mansión como criada de una anciana enferma. Cuando un asesino en serie empieza a aterrorizar al vecindario, la señora se preocupa por la seguridad de su bella sirvienta. De este film de suspense se dijo que Hitchcock no lo hubiera hecho mejor.
La escalera de caracol
Director
Una joven muda (McGuire) trabaja en una gran mansión como criada de una anciana enferma. Cuando un asesino en serie empieza a aterrorizar al vecindario, la señora se preocupa por la seguridad de su bella sirvienta. De este film de suspense se dijo que Hitchcock no lo hubiera hecho mejor.
Pesadilla
Director
En un tranquilo pueblo de los Estados Unidos, Harry Quincey, un soltero amargado por su fracaso como artista, vive con sus dos hermanas, Hester y Leite, y una sirvienta. De manera inesperada Harry anuncia que va a casarse. (FILMAFFINITY)
Retorno al abismo
Original Story
Richard Mason (Humphrey Bogart) trama el crimen perfecto: el asesinato de su esposa para poder desposar luego a la hermana de ésta.
El sospechoso
Director
Charles Laughton ofrece una magistral interpretación en este obra del cine negro en la que da vida a un hombre casado que se enamora de una joven.
Luz en el alma
Director
Jackie Lamont (Deanna Durbin), la joven cantante de un club privado, le cuenta al teniente Charles Mason las dificultades de su matrimonio con el aristócrata sureño Robert Manette (Gene Kelly), un hombre de carácter inestable, al que se acusa de haber asesinado a su jefe
La reina de Cobra
Director
Al descubrir que su novia Tollea ha sido secuestrada, Ramu y su amigo Kado viajan hacia una isla donde todos los extranjeros son asesinados a la llegada y sus habitantes, a menudo sacrificados al dios del volcán, adoran a la cobra. En la isla reina la malvada hermana gemela de Tollea, Naja, la Mujer Cobra, quien tiene planes para Ramu y no quiere la competencia de su benévola hermana.
La dama desconocida
Director
Una noche en que regresa tarde a su casa, Scout se encuentra con que su mujer ha sido asesinada. Dado que no tiene coartada, la policía lo detiene como presunto culpable. Entonces entrará en juego su secretaria, una joven secretamente enamorada de él que le ayudará a encontrar al verdadero criminal... (FILMAFFINITY)
El hijo de Drácula
Director
El hijo del Conde Drácula, utilizando una identidad falsa (Alucard), viaja a una plantación del sur de los Estados Unidos invitado por Katherine, una bella joven que vive obsesionada por la muerte. Inmediatamente después de su llegada, el conde Alucard intenta seducirla.
Someone to Remember
Director
An elderly woman whose son disappeared years before refuses to move when her apartment building is turned into a college dormitory for male students, as she is convinced that he will return one day. She continues to live in the building after it becomes a dorm, and eventually grows attached to a troubled young student whom she comes to believe is her own grandson. When she finds out that the boy's father will be visiting him, she prepares herself to be reunited with the man she has convinced herself is her long-lost son.
My Heart Belongs to Daddy
Director
A distinguished professor finds his well-ordered life tospy-turvy after he is forced to take in a pregnant widow.
The Night Before the Divorce
Director
Marital comedy with a dash of murder.
Fly-By-Night
Director
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out that Jeff's passenger is an inventor has just escaped from a shady sanitarium, where he has been held prisoner by Nazi spies.
West Point Widow
Director
In this romance, a hospital nurse marries a West Point football hero. She soon gets pregnant, but this doesn't stop her from annulling the marriage so as not to interfere with her husband's military career.
Personal Column
Director
To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.
Corsican Brothers
Director
Siamese twins, separated at birth, maintain a psychic knowledge of each other's dire fates.
Ultimatum
Director
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
Hatred
Director
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...
French White Cargo
Director
Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to work in brothels. But the gangsters have their own battels against each over, so the journalists can escape the danger, in which they've brought themselves.
Mister Flow
Director
While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniless young lawyer into trouble.The crook's mistress, married to a rich man, then becomes attracted to the lawyer.
Symphonie D'Amour
Director
A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise what proves to be his own show. His girl, Jacqueline Francell, interests a Marquis in backing the show. She and Panard are happily reunited after the successful opening of his operetta.
La vie parisienne
Director
A rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offenbach's 'La vie parisienne' which was playing at the time. Thirty five years later, he returns with his son and granddaughter, who is engaged to a young Frenchman. But Mendoza's puritanical son forbids the marriage. Mendoza and the actress's friends conspire to change his mind and convert him to 'Parisian life.'
The Slump Is Over
Director
A provincial tour fails without money in an abandoned theater in the capital and puts on a review under the sign of optimism.
The Burning Secret
Screenplay
One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy’s mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy...
The Burning Secret
Director
One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy’s mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy...
Le sexe faible
Director
The story of Madame Leroy-Gomez, a wealthy divorcee living in Paris. Together with her servant Antoine she schemes to marry off her unmarried children and fix any issues that arise for those already married.
Quick
Director
A woman staying at a health spa (Lillian Harvey, goes to the theater every night to see "Quick" a comic performer, who wears clown make-up. She meets him off stage, without make-up and doesn't recognize him. He courts her, hoping she'll like him for himself but she maintains her crush on "Quick."
Quick
Director
Lilian Harvey plays Eva, a young girl taking some time in a health spa and spending her evenings in the town's vaudeville theatre enamoured by a heavily made-up clown called Quick. Quick takes a shine to her and tries to woo her without make-up and masquerading as the theatre's manager. Unable to resolve her feelings for Quick and the theatre manager, Eva is angered when she finally learns that they are one and the same.
Tumultes
Director
Fresh out of prison a small-time crook finds his girlfriend's dropped him, which sends him into a murderous rage.
The Tempest
Director
Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).
About an investigation
Director
Cuando asesinan a una prostituta, las sospechas recaen en el protagonista, un estudiante hijo de un magistrado. Víctima de las pruebas circunstanciales, debe aguantar el infierno de una audiencia preliminar.
Inquest
Writer
When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own son and daughter are also mixed up in the case.
Inquest
Director
When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own son and daughter are also mixed up in the case.
The Man in Search of His Murderer
Director
A man in bad sorts hires a burglar to later kill him, then changes his mind when his fortunes turn and must find the contracted murderer before it is too late.
Farewell
Director
Hella lives in a boarding house and has various romantic adventures before settling down with vacuum cleaner salesman Winkler.
The fight with the dragon or: The tragedy of the lodger
Writer
A meek clerk can no longer abide the nastiness of his boarding house proprietress and takes drastic action.
The fight with the dragon or: The tragedy of the lodger
Director
A meek clerk can no longer abide the nastiness of his boarding house proprietress and takes drastic action.
Gente en domingo
Director
Película con espíritu documental que intenta retratar la vida cotidiana del Berlín de 1930. Para ello se utiliza una pequeña historia de ficción en la que dos hombres y dos mujeres pasan una jovial jornada de domingo en la ciudad.
Die Durchgängerin
Writer