Biography: life and films
Robert Siodmak was a German film director, screenwriter and film producer. He was born in Dresden, Germany on 8 August 1900 and died in Locarno, Switzerland on 10 March 1973. Leaving Nazi Germany in the early 1930s, he made several films in France before settling in Hollywood, where, influenced by German expressionism, he became one of the great film noir directors.© James Travers 2017
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Filmography
Key: d = director; w = writer; a = actor
Die Durchgängerin (1928) [w]
Abschied (1930) [d]
Menschen am Sonntag (1930) [d,w]
Autour d'une enquête (1931) [d]
Der Mann, der seinen Mörder sucht (1931) [d]
Voruntersuchung (1931) [d,w]
Quick (1932) [d]
Stürme der Leidenschaft (1932) [d]
Tumultes (1932) [d]
Brennendes Geheimnis (1933) [d]
La Vie parisienne (1936) [d]
Le Grand refrain (1936) [d]
Frères corses (1938) [d]
Mollenard (1938) [d]
Ultimatum (1938) [d]
Pièges (1939) [d]
West Point Widow (1941) [d]
Fly-By-Night (1942) [d]
My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942) [d]
The Night Before the Divorce (1942) [d]
Someone to Remember (1943) [d]
Christmas Holiday (1944) [d]
Cobra Woman (1944) [d]
Phantom Lady (1944) [d]
The Suspect (1944) [d]
Conflict (1945) [w]
The Spiral Staircase (1945) [a,d]
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945) [d]
Time Out of Mind (1947) [d]
Criss Cross (1949) [d]
Deported (1950) [d]
The File on Thelma Jordon (1950) [d]
Richer Than the Earth (1951) [d]
The Crimson Pirate (1952) [d]
Mein Vater, der Schauspieler (1956) [d]
Nachts, wenn der Teufel kam (1957) [d]
Katia (1959) [d]
The Rough and the Smooth (1959) [d]
Mein Schulfreund (1960) [d]
L'Affaire Nina B. (1961) [d,w]
Escape from East Berlin (1962) [d]
Der Schut (1964) [d,w]
Die Pyramide des Sonnengottes (1965) [d]
Custer of the West (1967) [d]
Kampf um Rom I (1968) [d]
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