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name: "Robert Siodmak"
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roles: ["Director"]
born: "8 August 1900"
died: "10 March 1973"
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# Robert Siodmak

## Identity

Robert Siodmak

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/robert-siodmak
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** robert-siodmak
- **IMDb ID:** nm0802563
- **TMDB ID:** 5029
- **Wikidata ID:** Q51498
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Siodmak, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51498, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0802563/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5029

Director. Born 8 August 1900 in Dresden, Germany. Died 10 March 1973.

## Details

- **Work:** Director
- **Born:** 8 August 1900, Dresden, Germany
- **Died:** 10 March 1973
- **Also known as:** Роберт Сьодмак, Роберт Сиодмак
- **Berlin International Film Festival:** 2 Berlin prizes (2 won)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Siodmak, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q51498, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0802563/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/5029

## Biography

Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director, screenwriter and producer. He worked in Germany, France and the United States, and is best known for his Hollywood thrillers and film noirs of the 1940s.

Born in Dresden, he began his career in the late 1920s and emigrated to the United States in 1939. His notable films include *People on Sunday* (1930), *Phantom Lady* (1944), *The Spiral Staircase* (1946), *The Killers* (1946), *The Dark Mirror* (1946) and *Criss Cross* (1949). *The Killers* earned him an Academy Award nomination for Best Director.

Later in his career he returned to Europe, where he directed *Die Ratten* (1955), which won the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, and *The Devil Strikes at Night* (1957). His brother was the writer and filmmaker Curt Siodmak.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Killers* (1946), Fi1m 84, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-killers.md)

## Complete filmography (65)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *A Big Grey-Blue Bird* (1971), Actor
- *The Fight for Rome II - The Betrayal* (1969), Director
- *The Fight for Rome* (1968), Director
- *Custer of the West* (1967), Director
- *Pyramid of the Sun God* (1965), Director
- *Mercenaries of the Rio Grande* (1965), Director
- *Yellow Devil* (1964), Director, Screenplay
- *Escape from East Berlin* (1962), Director
- *The Nina B. Affair* (1961), Director, Screenplay
- *Mein Schulfreund* (1960), Director, Producer
- *Katia* (1959), Director
- *The Rough and the Smooth* (1959), Producer, Director
- *Dorothea Angermann* (1959), Director
- *The Devil Strikes at Night* (1957), Director
- *O.S.S.* (1957), series, Producer, Director
- *Mein Vater, der Schauspieler* (1956), Director
- *The Rats* (1955), Director
- *Flesh and the Woman* (1954), Director
- *The Crimson Pirate* (1952), Director
- *The Whistle at Eaton Falls* (1951), Director
- *Deported* (1950), Director
- *The File on Thelma Jordon* (1949), Director
- *The Great Sinner* (1949), Director
- *Criss Cross* (1949), Director
- *Cry of the City* (1948), Director
- *Time Out of Mind* (1947), Producer, Director
- *The Dark Mirror* (1946), Director
- *The Killers* (1946), Director — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/the-killers.md)
- *The Spiral Staircase* (1946), as The Killer's 'Eye' (uncredited) · Director
- *The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry* (1945), Director
- *Conflict* (1945), Original Story
- *The Suspect* (1945), Director
- *Christmas Holiday* (1944), Director
- *Cobra Woman* (1944), Director
- *Phantom Lady* (1944), Director
- *Son of Dracula* (1943), Director
- *Someone to Remember* (1943), Director
- *My Heart Belongs to Daddy* (1942), Director
- *The Night Before the Divorce* (1942), Director
- *Fly By Night* (1942), Director
- *West Point Widow* (1941), Director
- *Personal Column* (1939), Director
- *Corsican Brothers* (1939), Director
- *Ultimatum* (1938), Director
- *Hatred* (1938), Director
- *French White Cargo* (1937), Director
- *Mister Flow* (1936), Director
- *Symphonie D'Amour* (1936), Director
- *Parisian Life* (1936), Director
- *Parisian Life* (1935), Director
- *The King of the Champs-Élysées* (1934), Production Supervisor
- *The Slump Is Over* (1934), Director
- *The Burning Secret* (1933), Director, Screenplay
- *Weaker Sex* (1933), Director
- *Quick* (1932), Director
- *Quick* (1932), Director
- *Tumultes* (1932), Director
- *The Tempest* (1932), Director
- *About an investigation* (1931), Director
- *Inquest* (1931), Director, Writer
- *The Man in Search of His Murderer* (1931), Director
- *Farewell* (1930), Director
- *The fight with the dragon or: The tragedy of the lodger* (1930), Director, Writer
- *People on Sunday* (1930), Director
- *Die Durchgängerin* (1928), Writer

## Gallery

- ![Robert Siodmak](https://film.one/media/person/3860522/gallery-e957def6013b.jpg) Robert Siodmak — Universal Pictures, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/73/Robert_Siodmak_headshot_1944.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled)
- ![Robert Siodmak](https://film.one/media/person/3860522/gallery-a747e08a3fc5.jpg) Robert Siodmak — Image via TMDB

## Awards

### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated

- 1947: Best Director (nominated), for *The Killers*

### Berlin International Film Festival — 2 won

- 1958: Berliner Kunstpreis (won)
- 1955: Golden Bear (won), for *Die Ratten*

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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