Max Nosseck


Director

About

Also Known As
Alexander M Norris
Birth Place
Poland
Born
September 19, 1902
Died
September 29, 1972

Biography

No stranger to portraying human emotion, Max Nosseck built a career as a compelling director for audiences everywhere. Nosseck received his start directing independent films, including early work on "Le Roi des Champs-Elysees" (1934) and "Girls Under 21" (1940). Film credits such as the biopic "Dillinger" (1945) with Lawrence Tierney, the crime flick "The Brighton Strangler" (1945...

Biography

No stranger to portraying human emotion, Max Nosseck built a career as a compelling director for audiences everywhere. Nosseck received his start directing independent films, including early work on "Le Roi des Champs-Elysees" (1934) and "Girls Under 21" (1940). Film credits such as the biopic "Dillinger" (1945) with Lawrence Tierney, the crime flick "The Brighton Strangler" (1945) with John Loder and "Black Beauty" (1946). were subsequently directed in the forties and the fiftiesLater in his career, Nosseck directed "Kill or Be Killed" (1950). Nosseck's husband was Ilse Steppat. Nosseck passed away in September 1972 at the age of 70.

Life Events

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Movie Clip

Hoodlum, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Once You Pass This Door The warden (Gene Roth) is the only parole board member not swayed by the pleas of Mama (Lisa Golm), so sure enough he has to release Vincent (Lawrence Tierney), whose own brother (Lawrence's younger brother Edward) also isn't on board, early in the Eagle-Lion quickie The Hoodlum, 1951.
Hoodlum, The (1951) -- (Movie Clip) Don't Get Too Ambitious First work day for paroled bank robber Lawrence Tierney, Vincent, the title character, at the gas station owned by his skeptical brother (Lawrence's brother Edward), visited by cop Burdick (Stuart Randall), tempted by Rosa (Allene Roberts) who works across the street, at the bank, in The Hoodlum, 1951.
Dillinger (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Introducing Lawrence Tierney All business and not-bad newsreel framing from Philip Yordan's Academy Award-nominated original script, Victor Kilian as the distraught father of the title character, Lawrence Tierney, though it wasn't really his first movie, the King Brothers-Monogram Pictures bio-pic Dillinger, 1945.
Dillinger (1945) -- (Movie Clip) Too Free With A Gun The end of the fact-based springing of his gang from an Indiana prison by the title character (Lawrence Tierney), then a spree montage, then Specs (Edmund Lowe) supervising the crew (Elisha Cook Jr., Marc Lawrence, Eduardo Cianelli), Anne Jeffreys the moll, in Monogram Pictures' Dillinger, 1945.
Dillinger (1945) -- (Movie Clip) The Kid Has Possibilities Sent to prison for a series of petty crimes Lawrence Tierney (title character) finds out that his cellmate Specs (Edmund Lowe) has credentials, and a robust posse (Eduardo Cianelli, Marc Lawrence, Elisha Cook Jr.), early in the racy Monogram Pictures bio-pic Dillinger, 1945.

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