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name: "Alvin Ganzer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/alvin-ganzer"
roles: ["Director"]
born: "27 August 1911"
died: "3 January 2009"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T15:39:44.353879+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Alvin Ganzer

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

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **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).

*Sources: imdb.com, en.wikipedia.org, catalog.afi.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Twilight Zone* (1959), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/tv/the-twilight-zone.md)

## Also known for

- *Lost in Space* (1965), Director
- *The Paleface* (1948), Assistant Director
- *The Man from U.N.C.L.E.* (1964), Director
- *Ironside* (1967), Director
- *At War with the Army* (1950), Assistant Director
- *Elephant Walk* (1954), Second Unit Director

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