Alfred Zeisler(1897-1985)

American-born producer/director/writer, who worked in Germany from 1924. He left Germany after the Nazis came to power and returned to the U.S. after a brief stint in France. He freelanced as a director of low-budget films for various Poverty Row studios in the 1940s, later using his fluency in German to appear as an actor, playing assorted Nazi officers and functionaries, in several Hollywood films of the early 1950s.