Alvin Ganzer

Alvin Ganzer

Director. Born 27 August 1911 in Cold Spring, Minnesota, United States. Died 3 January 2009.

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Born
27 August 1911, Cold Spring, Minnesota, United States
Died
3 January 2009

Biography

Alvin Ganzer (1911–2009) was an American film and television director. He began working at Paramount Pictures in 1932 in the casting department and later served as an assistant director and second unit director on numerous feature films through the early 1950s.

Ganzer's first credited feature as director was The Girls of Pleasure Island (1953). Between 1954 and 1979 he directed episodes of many television series, including four episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959), seven of The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964) and one of Lost in Space (1965). He also directed feature films such as The Leather Saint (1956), Country Music Holiday (1958), When the Boys Meet the Girls (1965) and Three Bites of the Apple (1967).

Films and series

Beyond what we have reviewed, Alvin Ganzer is known for Lost in Space (1965), The Paleface (1948), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), Ironside (1967), At War with the Army (1950) and Elephant Walk (1954).