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{{short description|German film director, actor, and screenwriter}}
'''Max Nosseck''' (19 September 1902 – 29 September 1972) was a German [[film director]], actor, and screenwriter.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/11539 |title=BFI &#124; Film & TV Database &#124; NOSSECK, Max |access-date=2011-03-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090904040533/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/11539 |archive-date=2009-09-04 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Biography==
Nosseck was born in [[Nakel]], then in [[Prussia]], but now in [[Poland]]. Nosseck established himself as a director in the [[Cinema of Germany|German Film Industry]], but due to his [[Jewish]] background he was forced to emigrate following the [[Nazi]] takeover in 1933. He directed films in [[France]], [[Spain]], the [[Netherlands]], and [[United States]].
In 1934 Max Nosseck directed [[Buster Keaton]], then struggling with alcoholism and a messy divorce, in the French feature ''[[Le Roi des Champs-Élysées]]''.
Nosseck's American films typed him as a director of sensationalist subjects, usually juvenile-vagrancy melodramas. His most famous "exploitation" film is ''[[Dillinger (1945 film)|Dillinger]]'' (1945), a gangster picture chronicling the rise and fall of [[John Dillinger]]. The film starred [[Lawrence Tierney]], with whom Nosseck reunited for two crime thrillers in later years. In a surprising turnabout, Nosseck directed two wholesome animal adventures in 1946 and 1947.
After his American assignments, he returned to work in the German and Austrian film industries. Nosseck married three times: to Austrian actress [[Olly Gebauer]], to German actress [[Ilse Steppat]], and to the writer and aviator Genevieve Haugen.
He died in [[Bad Wiessee]].
==Selected filmography==
'''Director'''
* ''[[Liebeskleeblatt]]'' (1930)
* ''[[Dance Into Happiness]]'' (1930)
* ''[[Einmal möcht' ich keine Sorgen haben]]'' (1932)
* ''[[All Is at Stake]]'' (1932)
* ''[[Wild Cattle (film)|Wild Cattle]]'' (1934)
* Una semana de felicidad (1934)
* ''[[Le Roi des Champs-Élysées]]'' (1934)
* ''[[De Big van het Regiment]]'' (1935)
* ''[[Aventura oriental]]'' (1935)
* ''[[Oranje Hein (1936 film)|Oranje Hein]]'' (1936)
* Poderoso caballer (1936)
* ''[[Overture to Glory]]'' (1940)
* ''[[Girls Under 21]]'' (1940)
* ''[[Gambling Daughters]]'' (1941)
* ''[[Dillinger (1945 film)|Dillinger]]'' (1945)
* ''[[The Brighton Strangler]]'' (1945)
* ''[[Black Beauty (1946 film)|Black Beauty]]'' (1946)
* ''[[The Return of Rin Tin Tin]]'' (1947)
* ''[[Kill or Be Killed (1950 film)|Kill or Be Killed]]'' (1950)
* ''[[Korea Patrol]]'' (1951)
* ''[[The Hoodlum (1951 film)|The Hoodlum]]'' (1951)
* ''[[Garden of Eden (1954 film)|Garden of Eden]]'' (1954)
* ''[[The Captain and His Hero]]'' (1955)
* ''[[And Who Is Kissing Me? (1956 film)|And Who Is Kissing Me?]]'' (1956)
* ''[[Singing in the Dark]]'' (1956)
'''Screenwriter'''
* ''[[Munchhausen in Africa]]'' (1958)
'''Actor'''
* ''[[Derby (1926 film)|Derby]]'' (1926)
* ''[[Liebeskleeblatt]]'' (1930)
* ''[[Dance Into Happiness]]'' (1930)
* ''[[Sperrbezirk]]'' (1966)
* ''[[How Did a Nice Girl Like You Get Into This Business?]]'' (1970)
* ''[[Gentlemen in White Vests]]'' (1970)
==References==
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==External links==
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