Born in Ohio to German parents, thin, frightened-looking Wolfgang Zilzer was a well-known stage and silent screen actor in Germany in the 1920s. After playing Wolfchen in Alraune (1928) and Gina Manés' cuckolded husband in Shadows of Fear (1928), Zilzer came to America where to his surprise he discovered that he already held American citizenship. After a stint on the stage, he entered American films in 1939 under the name of John Voight and became a constant presence in World War II melodramas. Having billed himself Wolfgang Zilzer in such films as Casablanca ([1942] as the desperate man with expired papers) and Hitler's Madman (as a German colonel), he changed his name once again, this time to Paul Andor, and offered a chillingly accurate portrayal of infamous propaganda minister Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels, whom he somewhat resembled, in Enemy of Women (1944). Although primarily a stage actor, Andor/Zilzer continued in films through the early '80s, including an appearance as Ludendorf in the bizarre Union City (1979) and as an analyst in the Dudley Moore comedy Lovesick (1983).
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Never Too Young to Die
Songwriter |
1986 | |||
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Mister Buddwing
Actor |
1966 | |||
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No Survivors, Please
Actor |
1963 | |||
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Singing in the Dark
Actor |
1956 | |||
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Hotel Berlin
Actor |
1945 | |||
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In Our Time
Actor |
1944 | |||
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Appointment in Berlin
Actor |
1943 | |||
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Behind the Rising Sun
Actor |
1943 | |||
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Hitler's Madman
Actor |
1943 | |||
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Margin for Error
Actor |
1943 | |||
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Paris After Dark
Actor |
1943 | |||
| 1943 | ||||
| 1943 | ||||
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Casablanca
Actor |
1942 | |||
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Invisible Agent
Actor |
1942 | |||
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Joan of Ozark
Actor |
1942 | |||
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The Lady Has Plans
Actor |
1942 | |||
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They Got Me Covered
Actor |
1942 | |||
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To Be or Not to Be
Actor |
1942 | |||
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Forbidden Passage
Actor |
1941 | |||
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Underground
Actor |
1941 | |||
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A Dispatch from Reuters
Actor |
1940 | |||
| 1939 | ||||
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Hotel Imperial
Actor |
1939 | |||
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Ninotchka
Actor |
1939 | |||
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Television Spy
Actor |
1939 | |||
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Namensheirat
Actor |
1933 | |||
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Case Van Geldern
Actor |
1932 | |||
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Razzia in St. Pauli
Actor |
1932 | |||
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Parlor, Bedroom and Bath
Actor |
1931 | |||
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Zapfenstreich Am Rhein
Actor |
1930 | |||
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Evas Tochter
Actor |
1928 | |||
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Thérèse Raquin
Actor |
1928 | |||
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Alraune
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Mata Hari
Actor |
1927 | |||
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Primanerliebe
Actor |
1927 |

