Robert Siodmak (August 8, 1900 - March 10, 1973) was a film director born in Memphis, Tennessee (sometimes his birthplace is stated as Dresden, Germany). He emigrated, with his family, to Germany at age one. He worked as a stage director and a banker before becoming editor and scenarist for Kurt Bernhardt in 1925. With the rise of Nazism he left Germany for Paris and in 1940 Paris for Hollywood. In Hollywood he was always an assignment director, but managed to bring the influence of German cinema to his projects and direct some great film noir. Of his film-noir output The Killers (1946) is regarded as one of the best of this American film style. He returned to Germany in the 1950s.

Filmography

• Abschied (1930)
• Der Mann, der seinen Mörder Sucht (1931)
• Voruntersuchung (1931)
• Sturme der Leidenschaft (1932)
• Le Sexe Faible (1932)
• Quick (1932)
• Brennendes Geheimnis (1933)
• La Crise est finie (1934)
• La Vie Parisienne (1935)
• Cargaisons Blanches (1937)
• Mollenard (1938)
• Pieges (1939)
• West Point Widow (1941)
• Fly-by-Night (1942)
• My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)
• The Night Before the Divorce (1942)
• Someone to Remember (1943)
• Son of Dracula (1943)
• Phantom Lady (1944)
• Cobra Woman (1944)
• Christmas Holiday (1944)
• The Suspect (1945)
• Uncle Harry (1945)
• The Spiral Staircase (1945)
• The Killers (1946)
• The Dark Mirror (1946)
• Time Out of Mind (1947)
• Cry of the City (1948)
• Criss Cross (1948)
• The Great Sinner (1949)
• The File on Thelma Jordan (1949)
• Deported (1950)
• The Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951)
• The Crimson Pirate (1952)
• Le Grand Jeu (1953)
• Die Ratten (1955)
• Mein Vater, der Schauspieler (1956)
• Nachts wenn der Teufel kam (1957)
• Dorothea Angermann (1959)
• The Rough and the Smooth (1959)
• Bitter Sweet (1959)
• Der Schulfreund (1960)
• L'Affaire Nina B. (1961)
• Escape from East Berlin (1962)
• Der Schut (1964)
• Der Schatz der Azteken (1964)
• Die Pyramide der Sonnengottes (1965)
• Der Kampf um Rom (1969)

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