Robert SiodmakFilmography

Born:: August 8, 1900 in Memphis, TN
Occupation:: Director
Biography:: Born in Memphis, Tennessee, where his German banker father and his wife were travelling, Robert Siodmak -- the older brother of Curt Siodmak -- was raised and educated in Germany and became an actor after graduating from the University of Marburg. His lack of success on stage forced him into...Read More

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Le Roi Des Champs-Elysees

Crew: Production Supervisor

Actors: Buster Keaton, Paulette Dubost, Colette Darfeuil, Madeleine Guitty

Synopsis: In an attempt to boost his then-flagging career, comedian Buster Keaton starred in the 1935 French production Le Roi de Champs Elysses (released in the U.S. as Champ of the Champs Elysees). Keaton plays a dual role as fugitive American gangster Buster Garner and his look-alike, a hapless Parisian Read More

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Der Kampf um rom II: Der Verrat

Crew: Director

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Honor Blackman

1969
Custer of the West

Crew: Director

Actors: Robert Shaw, Mary Ure, Jeffrey Hunter, Ty Hardin, Kieron Moore

Synopsis: Opening with a montage depicting its subject's Civil War exploits, Custer of the West carries us across four years of fighting in less than four minutes of screen time. The Civil War ended, George Armstrong Custer (Robert Shaw) longs for action and to hold onto his rank of general, so General Phil Read More

1968
Der Kampf um Rom I

Crew: Director

Actors: Laurence Harvey, Orson Welles, Sylva Koscina, Honor Blackman, Robert Hoffman

Synopsis: This 99-minute film constitutes the first half of Robert Siodmak's mammoth two-part epic Der Kampf um Rom (Fight for Rome). The film depicts the Goths' sacking of Rome in 526 AD. No expense was spared in bringing this story to the screen: for example, Siodmak utilized six companies of Rumanian Read More

1968
Der Schatz der Aztecen

Crew: Director

Actors: Lex Barker, Gérard Barray

1965
Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes

Crew: Director

Actors: Lex Barker

Synopsis: Dr. Karl Sternau (Lex Barker) is a German doctor in Mexico who is on the side of the Mexicans fighting against Emperor Maximillian and the French occupation. With the help of the clock dealer Andre (Ralf Wolter), Karl tries to stop a gang led by the villainous Captain Verjoda (Rik Battaglia) from Read More

1965
Der Schut

Crew: Director

Actors: Lex Barker, Ralf Wolter, Marie Versini, Marianne Hold, Rik Battaglia

Synopsis: Kara Ben Nemai (Lex Barker) is a German adventurer who sets out to find the villainous Yellow Devil who has been terrorizing the residents of Monte Negro. When Kara learns the mystery man is posing as a prosperous carpet merchant, he chases his adversary over the scenic mountains of Yugoslavia. Read More

1964
Escape from East Berlin

Crew: Director

Actors: Don Murray, Christine Kaufmann, Werner Klemperer, Ingrid van Bergen, Edith Schultze-Westrum

Synopsis: Based on an actual escape from East to West Germany staged on January 28, 1962, this routine docudrama by director Robert Siodmak re-enacts the tale. Kurt Schroeder (Don Murray) is a chauffeur, the young East Berliner who gets the idea of digging a tunnel underneath the Berlin Wall. Thus Read More

1962
L'Affaire Nina B.

Crew: Director

Actors: Nadja Tiller, Pierre Brasseur, Jacques Dacqmine, Walter Giller, Etienne Bierry

Synopsis: This standard melodrama by director Robert Siodmak, active in Germany, France, and the U.S., is nuanced with shades of film noir and tells the story of some underhanded corporate execs and their Nazi past. A big-name engineering company in West Germany is involved with high-rollers in the Read More

1961
Mein Schulfreund

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Heinz Rühmann, Loni von Friedl, Ernst Schroeder, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Mein Schulfreund has an ostensible anti-Nazi theme yet there are aspects of this wartime drama that seem ambivalent. At the heart of the story is Herr Fuchs (Heinz Ruhmann), a postman who finally turns against the war when he sees it is killing innocent children -- a remarkably slow realization. Read More

1960
Portrait of a Sinner

Crew: Director

Actors: Nadja Tiller, Tony Britton, William Bendix, Natasha Parry, Norman Wooland

Synopsis: After spending most of the 1950s in Europe, writer/director Robert Siodmak filmed his only picture in England: The Rough and the Smooth (US title: Portrait of a Sinner). Based on a novel by Robin Maugham, the story concerns a young archaeologist (Tony Britton), engaged to marry the daughter (Natasha Parry Read More

1959
Katia

Crew: Director

Actors: Romy Schneider, Curd Jürgens, Pierre Blanchar, Gabrielle Dorziat, Monique Melinand, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: Feeling hamstrung and confined by Hollywood, writer/director Robert Siodmak returned to Europe to make most of his latter-day films. Produced in France, Magnificent Sinner stars Curt Jurgens as Czar Alexander II, with Romy Schneider as schoolgirl Katja. The Czar takes Katja as his mistress Read More

1959
Dorothea Angermann

Crew: Director

1958
Nachts, Wenn der Teufel Kam

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Mario Adorf, Claus Holm, Hannes Messemer, Werner Peters

Synopsis: Writer/director Robert Siodmak based his German-filmed The Devil Strikes at Night on an actual case. Set during the last months of the Hitler regime, the film concerns a series of rapes and stranglings of young women. Gestapo officer Rossdorf (Hannes Messemer) and non-party member Axel Kersten (Claus Holm Read More

1958
Die Ratten

Crew: Director

Actors: Maria Schell, Heidemarie Hatheyer, Gustav Knuth, Ilse Steppat

Synopsis: When director Robert Siodmak filmed a German-language version of the Gerhardt Hauptmann play Die Ratten he simultaneously shot an English version of the same film with the same cast, which would later be released in Australia as The Rats. No, this isn't a Willard-style horror film. Maria Schell Read More

1955
Le Grand Jeu

Crew: Director

Actors: Gina Lollobrigida, Jean Pascal, Raymond Pellegrin, Peter Van Eyck

Synopsis: 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. It turns out that she is an amnesiac. With her, the attorney tries to re-spark his old relationship. Read More

4/12/54
The Crimson Pirate

Crew: Director

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Eva Bartok, Nick Cravat, Torin Thatcher, James Hayter

Synopsis: Half affectionate parody and half enthusiastic tribute to the swashbuckling pirate epics of the 1930's and 40's, The Crimson Pirate stars Burt Lancaster as Captain Vallo, the smiling leader of a pack of unscrupulous pirates. While on the high seas, Vallo and his men spy a well-stocked merchant Read More

1952
The Whistle at Eaton Falls

Crew: Director

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Dorothy Gish, Carleton Carpenter, Murray Hamilton, James Westerfield

Synopsis: Produced by "March of Time" maven Louis de Rochemont, Whistle at Eaton Falls is docudrama concerning a labor dispute in a small New Hampshire town. Union leader Lloyd Bridges is reluctantly promoted to the presidency of Eaton Falls' plastics plant. Now in a management position, Bridges must lay Read More

1951
Deported

Crew: Director

Actors: Märta Torén, Jeff Chandler, Claude Dauphin, Marina Berti, Richard Rober

Synopsis: 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. Chandler masterminds a black-market racket, capitalizing Read More

1950
The File on Thelma Jordon

Crew: Director

Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Wendell Corey, Paul Kelly, Joan Tetzel, Stanley Ridges

Synopsis: No one is as good as Barbara Stanwyck when she's bad. Here Stanwyck plays Thelma Jordon, a woman who late one night shows up in the office of happily married Assistant DA Cleve Marshall (Wendell Corey) to seek help in solving the string of robberies at her wealthy aunt's estate. Before Cleve can Read More

1949
The Great Sinner

Crew: Director

Actors: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Melvyn Douglas, Walter Huston, Ethel Barrymore

Synopsis: Based loosely on the Dostoyevsky novel, The Gambler stars Gregory Peck as a sensitive 19th-century Russian author. His "great sin" is gambling, which starts when he attempts to rescue aristocratic Ava Gardner from the gaming tables. He succeeds, only to lose himself to gambling fever, which costs Read More

1949
Cry of the City

Crew: Director

Actors: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark, Shelley Winters, Betty Garde, Debra Paget

Synopsis: The opening scene of Robert Siodmak's grim film noir depicts police lieutenants Candella (Victor Mature) and Collins (Fred Clark) observing wounded cop killer Martin Rome (Richard Conte) receive last rites. Though Rome recovers, he still must elude Candella and Collins in his desperate attempt to Read More

1948
Criss Cross

Crew: Director

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea, Stephen McNally, Richard Long

Synopsis: Steve Thompson (Burt Lancaster) returns home after a few years of knocking around the country following his divorce from good-time girl Anna (Yvonne De Carlo). Getting his old job back driving an armored car, and not even convincing himself that he's making a new start, he also wants his old wife Read More

1948
Time out of Mind

Crew: Director, Producer

Actors: Phyllis Calvert, Robert Hutton, Ella Raines, Eddie Albert, Leo G. Carroll

Synopsis: Adapted from a novel by Rachel Field, Time Out of Mind is a slow-moving costume drama enlivened by its stars. Servant girl Kate Ferald (Phyllis Calvert, in her first Hollywood film) falls in love with Christopher Fortune (Robert Hutton), the scion of a wealthy New England sailing family. Read More

1947
The Killers

Crew: Director

Actors: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Albert Dekker, Jeff Corey, Sam Levene, Jack Lambert

Synopsis: The Killers uses Ernest Hemingway's short story as a springboard for a complex film noir. Two mysterious men (William Conrad and Charles McGraw) muscle their way into a small town and kill an aging boxer (Burt Lancaster, making his screen debut), who offers no resistance and seems to be welcoming Read More

1946
The Dark Mirror

Crew: Director

Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Lew Ayres, Thomas Mitchell, Richard Long, Charles Evans

Synopsis: Olivia De Havilland, with the assistance of some eye-popping special photographic effects, plays twins in The Dark Mirror. One twin commits a murder: The "good" twin is blamed, but provides no alibi in her own defense, since she can't believe that the "bad" twin is guilty. Psychologist Lew Ayres Read More

1946
The Spiral Staircase

Crew: Director

Actors: Dorothy McGuire, George Brent, Ethel Barrymore, Kent Smith, Rhonda Fleming

Synopsis: The wonderfully suspenseful psychological drama Spiral Staircase is the prototype of the "old dark house, lady in distress" thriller, full of dark corners, flickering candles and featuring a mysterious, menacing killer whose true identity remains hidden until the end. Helen Capel (Dorothy Read More

1946
Conflict

Crew: Screen Story

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Alexis Smith, Sydney Greenstreet, Rose Hobart, Charles Drake

Synopsis: Filmed some 18 months before its release, Conflict is one of two melodramas in which Humphrey Bogart self-consciously portrayed a wife murderer (the other was The Two Mrs. Carrolls). Bogie plays unhappily married Richard Mason, who concocts a meticulous scheme to kill his shrewish wife, Kathryn (Rose Hobart Read More

1945
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry

Crew: Director

Actors: George Sanders, Ella Raines, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Sara Allgood

Synopsis: Fabric designer Harry Quincey (George Sanders) has the unhappy task of caring for his tiresome unmarried sisters, Lettie (Geraldine Fitzgerald) and Hester (Moyna MacGill). When Harry falls in love with Deborah Brown (Ella Raines), Hester is delighted, but Lettie smolders with jealousy. Upset at Read More

1945
Phantom Lady

Crew: Director

Actors: Franchot Tone, Ella Raines, Alan Curtis, Elisha Cook, Jr., Thomas Gomez

Synopsis: Engineer Scott Henderson (Alan Curtis) is at a seedy midtown Manhattan bar early one evening, drowning his sorrows over a failed marriage, when he strikes up a conversation with a woman (Fay Helm). She's well dressed, with a very ornate hat topping off her ensemble, and also seems even sadder and Read More

1944
Cobra Woman

Crew: Director

Actors: Maria Montez, Jon Hall, Sabu, Edgar Barrier, Lon Chaney, Jr., Mary Nash

Synopsis: On the eve of her wedding to Ramu (Jon Hall), the beautiful Tollea (Maria Montez) is spirited away from her tranquil South Sea island to the mysterious, forbidden place of her birth, Cobra Island. Ramu follows and, with help from his young-but-not-too-bright friend Kado (Sabu) and their chimp Read More

1944
Christmas Holiday

Crew: Director

Actors: Deanna Durbin, Gene Kelly, Dean Harens, Gale Sondergaard, Richard Whorf, Gladys George

Synopsis: Don't be fooled by the title. Christmas Holiday is a far, far cry from It's a Wonderful Life. Told in flashback, the story begins as Jackie (Deanna Durbin), marries Southern aristocrat Robert Monette (Gene Kelly). Unfortunately, Robert has inherited his family's streak of violence and instability Read More

1944
The Suspect

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens, Rosalind Ivan, Stanley Ridges, Henry Daniell

Synopsis: The Suspect is a well turned out period melodrama, with an excellent leading performance by Charles Laughton. He plays an amiable, hopelessly henpecked shopkeeper who yearns for the affections of pretty stenographer Ella Raines. When he is pushed to brink by wife Rosalind Ivan, Laughton kills her Read More

1944
Someone to Remember

Crew: Director

Actors: Mabel Paige, John Craven, Dorothy Morris, Charles Dingle, Harry Shannon

Synopsis: Mabel Paige, one of Hollywood's most beloved character actresses, was given her one-and-only starring role in this Republic Pictures tearjerker. Paige plays a wealthy old lady embittered by the long-ago disappearance of her son. She lives alone in a downtown hotel, with only the occasional company Read More

1943
Son of Dracula

Crew: Director

Actors: Lon Chaney, Jr., Robert Paige, Louise Allbritton, Evelyn Ankers, Frank Craven

Synopsis: Son of Dracula represents a felicitious creative collaboration between director Robert Siodmak and his screenwriter-brother Curt. The story is set in the American south, where the mysterious Count Alucard (Lon Chaney Jr.) has recently taken up residence. Katherine Caldwell (Louise Allbritton), a Read More

1943
My Heart Belongs to Daddy

Crew: Director

Actors: Richard Carlson, Martha O'Driscoll, Cecil Kellaway, Frances Gifford, Florence Bates

Synopsis: A most uncharacteristic assignment for director Robert Siodmak, My Heart Belongs to Daddy was scripted by F. Hugh Herbert, of The Moon is Blue fame (or notoriety). Martha O'Driscoll stars as a widowed, pregnant exotic dancer, forced by circumstance to stopover at the household of widowed scientist Read More

1942
The Night Before the Divorce

Crew: Director

Actors: Lynn Bari, Mary Beth Hughes, Joseph Allen, Jr., Nils Asther, Truman Bradley

Synopsis: The Night Before the Divorce is when Lynn Thorndike (Lynn Bari) seeks out her ex-husband George (Joseph Allen Jr.), begging for help. Lynn claims she is in trouble with cops, a contingency tied in with the murder of bandleader Victor Roselle (Nils Asther), whom she has been dating. George Read More

1942
Fly by Night

Crew: Director

Actors: Nancy Kelly, Richard Carlson, Albert Basserman, Martin Kosleck, Walter Kingsford

Synopsis: The innovative direction of Robert Siodmak lifts the inexpensive imitation-Hitchcock Fly By Night well above the ordinary. Richard Carlson plays young intern Jeff Burton, who impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen (Miles Mander). It soons turns out that Jeff's passenger is an Read More

1942
West Point Widow

Crew: Director

Actors: Anne Shirley, Richard Carlson, Richard Denning, Frances Gifford, Maude Eburne

Synopsis: 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. Though she keeps it a secret, her plan is to marry him again after he graduates from the Read More

1941
Pièges

Crew: Director

Actors: Maurice Chevalier, Marie Déa, Erich Von Stroheim, Pierre Renoir, Madeleine Geoffroy, André Brunot

Synopsis: In this dark drama, the mysterious disappearance of several Parisian women cause the police to hire the roommate of the latest victim to go undercover, looking into strange newspaper ads seeking young single women, and meet all that placed the ads. She does so, but all of them are innocent. Then Read More

1939
Mollenard

Crew: Director

Actors: Harry Baur, Gabrielle Dorziat, Pierre Renoir, Albert Prejean, Robert Lynen

Synopsis: Hatred was originally released in France in 1938 under the title Mollenard. Harry Baur stars as Captain Mollenard, skipper of cargo ship who returns from a trip to China to the "loving" arms of his despicable, castrating wife (Gabrielle Dorziat). During his absence, Mme. Mollenard has raised her Read More

1938
Cargaison Blanche

Crew: Director

Actors: Jules Berry, Kaethe von Nagy, Marcel Dalio, Gaston Modot, Suzy Prim

Synopsis: Although the title of this French melodrama translates as White Cargo, it has nothing to do with the steamy stage play of the same name. Instead, its source was Chemin di Rio, a novel by Jean Masson. A very young Jean-Pierre Aumont plays a crusading reporter who investigates a white-slavery ring. Read More

1937
Le Chemin De Rio

Crew: Director

Actors: Suzy Prim, Jules Berry, Jean-Pierre Aumont

1936
Mister Flow

Crew: Director

Actors: Edwige Feuillère, Mila Parély, Louis Jouvet, Fernand Gravey, Vladimir Sokoloff

Synopsis: Filmed in 1936 as Mr. Flow, this Robert Siodmak production was based on a novel by Gaston Leroux. Set in summertime Paris, the labyrinthine plotline is set in motion by the title character, a gentleman safecracker played by Louis Jouvet. To recount the entire plotline would require a Read More

1936
Symphonie D'Amour

Crew: Director

Actors: Fernand Gravey

Synopsis: Also known as La Grande Refrain, Symphonie D'Amour was filmed in 1936 but wasn't released in America until a decade later. Fernand Gravet plays Panard, a young composer who has yet to receive his big break. His actress girlfriend (Jacqueline Francell) inveigles a wealthy marquis to finance a Read More

1936
La Vie Parisienne

Crew: Director

Actors: Conchita Montenegro, Marcelle Praince, Max Dearly, Georges Rigaud

Synopsis: La Vie Parisienne is based on the 1866 operetta by Jacques Offenbach, Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy. The story has been updated to 1936, with Brazilian aristocrat Ramiro (Max Dearly) bringing his granddaughter Helenita (Carmencita Montenegro) with him to wicked old Paris. Her subsequent Read More

1935
La Crise Est Finie

Crew: Director

Actors: Danielle Darrieux, Albert Prejean, Suzanne Dehelly

Synopsis: Released abroad as The Slump is Over, this backstage comedy pokes gentle fun at the Depression-era French bourgeoisie. Director Robert Siodmak concentrates on the trials and tribulations of a young and impoverished theatrical troupe. Recently fired by their temperamental leading lady, the actors Read More

1934
Brennendes Geheimnis

Crew: Director

Actors: Willi Forst, Hans Richter, Alfred Beierle

1933
Le Sexe Faible

Crew: Director

Actors: Jeanne Cheirel, Marguerite Moreno, Pierre Brasseur

1933
Stuerme der Leidenschaft

Crew: Director

Actors: Emil Jannings, Anna Sten, Trude Hesterberg, Otto Wernicke, Anton Pointner

Synopsis: Also known as Tempest and Storm of Passion, Stuerme der Leidenschaft was the first of Robert Siodmak's two directorial efforts of 1932. Emil Jannings stars as a tough but basically gentle gangster who, while serving a prison term, is betrayed by his sweetheart Anna Sten. Released from prison, the Read More

1932
Quick

Crew: Director

Actors: Lilian Harvey, Jeanne Fusier-Gir, Jules Berry, Pierre Brasseur

Synopsis: Though Lillian Harvey is the star of Quick, the title character is played by the versatile French character actor Jules Berry. The story is set among an acting troupe, with leading lady Harvey falling in love with a clown. However, she loves him only when they're on stage together; offstage, Harvey Read More

1932
Voruntersuchung

Crew: Director, Screenwriter

Actors: Albert Basserman, Hans Brausewetter, Charlotte Ander

Synopsis: The directorial career of Robert Siodmak continue to gain momentum with his third solo effort, Voruntersuchung (Inquest) When a prostitute is murdered, suspicion falls on Gustav Froelich, the son of a magistrate. A victim of circumstantial evidence, Froelich must endure the hell of a preliminary Read More

1931
Der Mann, Der Seinen Moerder Sucht

Crew: Director

Actors: Heinz Rühmann, Lien Deyers, Hans Leibelt, Hermann Speelmans

Synopsis: Robert Siodmak's second solo directorial effort was the breathless comedy-melodrama Der Mann, Der Seinen Moerder Sucht (Looking For His Murderer) In the face of ever-mounting debts, Heinz Ruhmann arranges for his own murder to be committed within the next 12 hours. During this period, Ruhmann Read More

1931
Tumultes

Crew: Director

Actors: Charles Boyer, Marcel André

1931
Abschied

Crew: Director

Actors: Brigitte Horney, Aribert Mog, Emilia Unda

Synopsis: Abschied (Farewell) represents the directorial debut of fledgling screenwriter Robert Siodmak. Co-written by Emeric Pressburger, the story concentrates on the various amours of boarding-house resident Hella (Brigitte Horney). After playing the field for several reels, she finally settles down with Read More

1930
Menschen am Sonntag

Crew: Director

Synopsis: An early experiment in neo-realist filmmaking, Menschen Am Sonntag is a low-budget drama about two men, a cab driver and a salesman, who find themselves with nothing to do on a Sunday in Berlin. The friends pick up a couple of young women, and the four spend the day wandering the city streets Read More

1929

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