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Alfred L. Werker (December 2, 1896 – July 28, 1975) was a film director whose work in movies spanned from 1917 through 1957. After a number of film production jobs and assistant directing, Werker co-directed his first film, Ridin’ the Wind in 1925 alongside director Del Andrews. He was brought in by Fox Film Corporation executives to re-shoot and re-edit Erich von Stroheim’s film Hello, Sister! (1933), co-starring Boots Mallory and ZaSu Pitts. Most of Werker’s work is unremarkable, but a few were well received by critics. Those films included House of Rothschild (1934) and The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939); the latter film is considered one of the best in the Sherlock Holmes series. During the early 1940s, he directed a number of comedies including Laurel & Hardy’s A-Haunting We Will Go (1942). In the late 1940s, Werker worked for the B-picture film studio Eagle-Lion Films. Notable films from that period include the unique mystery thriller Repeat Performance and He Walked by Night. The latter film, however, was taken over by uncredited director Anthony Mann. Werker was nominated in 1949 for the Locarno International Film Festival’s Best Police Film category for He Walked By Night (1948) and won. The following year, Alfred was nominated for the Directors Guild of America Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Motion Pictures for Lost Boundaries (1949) but was unsuccessful.
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Alfred L. Werker Biography / Wiki
| Name | Alfred L. Werker |
| Also Know | Alfred Louis Werker, Albert Werker, Alfred Werker, Al Werker |
| Gender | Male |
| Known For | Directing |
| Place of Birth | Deadwood, South Dakota, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1896-12-02 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 78 |
| Deathday | 1975-07-28 |
Alfred L. Werker Directing Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| He Walked by Night | Director | 1949-02-06 | This film-noir piece, told in semi-documentary style, follows police on the hunt for a resourceful criminal who shoots and kills a cop…. |
| Repeat Performance | Director | 1947-05-22 | Broadway star, Sheila Page, shoots Barney, her murderous husband on New Year’s Eve. She flees her apartment and goes to her producer, John Friday. Whe… |
| Shock | Director | 1946-02-01 | In this thriller, psychiatrist Dr. Cross kills his wife and expects to get away with murder, until he discovers that the slaying was observed by a nex… |
| Advice to the Lovelorn | Director | 1933-12-01 | Los Angeles newspaper reporter Toby Prentiss is continually in trouble with his editor. He is demoted to running the paper’s “Miss Lonelyhearts” advic… |
| A-Haunting We Will Go | Director | 1942-08-07 | Stan and Ollie get involved with con men, crooks, a genial magician, and two interchangeable coffins with disastrous but funny results…. |
| The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes | Director | 1939-09-01 | Having once again avoided criminal conviction, Professor Moriarity develops a murderous plan to “finish off†his last major nemesis, Sherlock Holm… |
| Canyon Crossroads | Director | 1955-01-01 | A mining engineer, who is shunned by his peers for his unorthodox beliefs concerning the whereabouts of large uranium deposits, joins forces with a gi… |
| The House of Rothschild | Director | 1934-04-07 | The story of the rise of the Rothschild financial empire founded by Mayer Rothschild and continued by his five sons. From humble beginnings the busine… |
| Walk East on Beacon! | Director | 1952-06-01 | An FBI agent works with a refugee scientist and the Coast Guard to crack a Soviet spy ring in Boston…. |
| Whispering Ghosts | Director | 1942-05-17 | A detective (Milton Berle) who solves cases on the radio investigates the decade-old murder of a sea captain…. |
| Rebel in Town | Director | 1956-07-30 | Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious “click,” Wes Mason whirls and … |
| At Gunpoint | Director | 1955-12-25 | A general-store keeper (Fred MacMurray) scares off bank robbers with a lucky shot, but they come back…. |
| Kidnapped | Director | 1938-05-27 | Robert Louis Stevenson’s hero David Balfour joins rebel Alan Breck Stewart in 18th-century Scotland…. |
| Lost Boundaries | Director | 1949-07-02 | A light-skinned African-American family are “passing” in an all-white New England town. When the truth comes out, the more prejudiced neighbors demand… |
| The Last Posse | Director | 1953-07-04 | A posse’s pursuit of bank robbers ends with loot missing and a sheriff (Broderick Crawford) wounded…. |
| The Young Don’t Cry | Director | 1957-07-26 | An orphaned teen gets involved with some chain-gang convicts…. |
| It Could Happen to You | Director | 1939-06-08 | In this comedy/mystery a milquetoast ad man finds his good ideas constantly copped by ambitious coworkers. His boss doesn’t even seem to see him. The … |
| Moon Over Her Shoulder | Director | 1941-10-23 | Marriage counselor advises his bored wife to take up painting through which she meets a hubbie-rival yachtsman…. |
| Devil’s Canyon | Director | 1953-08-13 | An outlaw woman helps one Arizona convict stop another with a Gatling gun…. |
| City Girl | Director | 1938-01-07 | In this tearful crime melodrama, a waitress becomes so taken with her dream of living in posh luxury and comfort that she leaves her honest boyfriend … |
| Sealed Cargo | Director | 1951-05-19 | A Newfoundland fishingboat comes to the aid of a wrecked Danish sailing ship and tows it to a small village, but eventually the captain of the fishing… |
| Three Hours to Kill | Director | 1954-11-04 | After three years on the run, Jim Guthrie returns with the scar of a rope burn on his neck. In a flashback, we learn how he was framed for murder but … |
| You Belong to Me | Director | 1934-09-08 | When vaudeville performer Florette Faxon is left penniless with her six-year-old son Jimmy, she relies on the friendship of fellow performer Bud Hanni… |
| My Pal, Wolf | Director | 1944-09-25 | A lonely child, neglected by her parents, encounters and befriends a German Shepherd, but she’s unaware the animal is a military dog being trained for… |
| We Have Our Moments | Director | 1937-03-28 | A trio of American crooks board a ship bound for Europe, intending to get rid of $100,000 in stolen dough. With detective John Wade breathing down the… |
| Stolen Harmony | Director | 1935-04-20 | Band leader Jack Conrad is impressed by prison inmate Ray Ferrera on saxophone. Conrad hires Ray to join his band and tour upon his release. Ray hooks… |
| Hello, Sister! | Director | 1933-04-14 | Peggy and her friend Millie are strolling down Broadway while Jimmy and Mac are trolling Broadway, and the four get together…… |
| Big Town Girl | Director | 1937-12-03 | When a department store songstress becomes a radio star she keeps her identity secret, as the “Masked Countess”, because he estranged husband is a cro… |
| Bachelor’s Affairs | Director | 1932-06-26 | A middle aged millionaire falls in love with a gorgeous, but stupid blonde gold digger, being guided by her ever-present shrewish friend.They marry bu… |
| Gateway | Director | 1938-08-05 | Irish immigrant meets returning war correspondent on a liner bound for New York. When she resists the amours of another passenger, charges result in h… |
| The Last of the Duanes | Director | 1930-08-31 | Buck Duane avenges his father’s murder by gunning down the killer, but must flee from the law. He finds Ruth, whom he once loved, in the clutches of t… |
| The Tough Guy | Assistant Director | 1926-02-01 | … |
| Annabelle’s Affairs | Director | 1931-06-14 | After only 11 hours of marriage, Annabelle and her husband separate-not knowing what each other truly looks like. Annabelle is given stocks by her hus… |
| News Is Made at Night | Director | 1939-07-20 | Newspaper editor (Foster) will do almost anything to increase circulation. He campaigns to free a condemned man while accusing a wealthy ex-criminal o… |
| Pirates of Monterey | Director | 1947-12-01 | A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part … |
| Walt Disney’s Fables – Vol.6 | Director | 2004-05-31 | Two classic animated shorts from the Disney studios. In ‘The Reluctant Dragon’ (1941), a young boy and a famous dragon fighter team up to teach a doci… |
| Double Cross Roads | Director | 1930-04-20 | Based on a novel by William R. Lipman… |
| The Hoodlum | Assistant Director | 1919-08-31 | A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of unpleas… |
| Through The Back Door | Assistant Director | 1921-05-05 | A young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother…. |
| The Love Light | Assistant Director | 1921-01-08 | Angela maintains a coastal lighthouse in Italy, where she awaits the return of her brothers from the war. She learns they are casualties and takes sol… |
| Pollyanna | Assistant Director | 1920-01-18 | When Pollyanna is orphaned, she’s sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt’s New England ho… |
| It’s Great to Be Alive | Director | 1933-07-08 | An aviator who crash landed on an island in the South Pacific returns home to find that he is the last fertile man left on Earth after an epidemic of … |
| Blue Skies | Director | 1929-03-16 | Better known for her work in talkie “weepers,” Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances in such late silent films as Fox’s Blue Skies. The… |
| The Gay Caballero | Director | 1932-02-14 | Football star Ted Radcliffe goes west to manage an inherited cattle ranch. Empire builder and cattle thief Don Paco is hounded by El Coyote (who is re… |
| Rackety Rax | Director | 1932-10-23 | Gambler/racketeer “Knucks” McGloin takes note of just how much money and action (aside from the game itself) takes place around and about the annual R… |
| The Sunset Legion | Director | 1928-04-21 | The citizens and near-by ranchers of a western town are being besieged by a gang of rustlers and robbers, and a plea is made to the governor to send a… |
| The Mad Martindales | Director | 1942-05-15 | A girl tries to pay the mortgage on a Nob Hill home and gets involved in selling her father’s art treasures…. |
| Fair Warning | Director | 1931-02-01 | This George O’Brien western is based on a novel by Max Brand, previously filmed as the 1920 Tom Mix vehicle The Untamed. Cast as devil-may-car Whistli… |
| Love in Exile | Director | 1936-12-09 | When a king suddenly abdicates, his subjects are lead to believe that it is for the love of a foreigner in this romance. In reality, he is stepping do… |
| Up the River | Director | 1938-12-09 | A group of prison inmates pass the time playing football and romancing ladies in this prison escape crime musical screwball comedy that was apparently… |
| Wild and Woolly | Director | 1937-07-19 | Child star Jane Withers along with fellow kiddie favorites like Carl ‘Alfalfa’ Switzer and Jackie Searl (who gives Jane her first on screen kiss!) tea… |
| The Reluctant Dragon | Director | 1941-06-19 | Humorist Robert Benchley attempts to find Walt Disney to ask him to adapt a short story about a gentle dragon who would rather recite poetry than be f… |
Credit: TMDB
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