Birthday:
12-29-1914
Deathday:
02-03-1986 (71 years)
Birthplace:
Stuttgart, Germany
Biography
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Alfred Vohrer (29 December 1914 – 3 February 1986) was a German film director and actor. He directed 48 films between 1958 and 1984.
He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and died in Munich, Germany.
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Alfred Vohrer (29 December 1914 – 3 February 1986) was a German film director and actor. He directed 48 films between 1958 and 1984.
He was born in Stuttgart, Germany and died in Munich, Germany.
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The Horror of Blackwood Castle
Act like Edgar Wallace ( Voice )
event1968 star_border 6.4
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Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.
Gorilla Gang
event1968 star_border 5.4
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When another dead elderly gentleman is fished out of the Thames, Inspector David Perkins is convinced that the gorilla gang is active again. On a doll found with the body, characters of an African language are discovered. Together with Sergeant Pepper and language specialist Susan MacPherson, the search for the head of the gang begins.
The Mysterious Magician
Act like Edgar Wallace / Funker (voice)
event1964 star_border 6.8
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The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if "The Hexer" may get away yet again.
The Inn on the River
Act like Edgar Wallace ( Voice )
event1962 star_border 6.3
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A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.
The Young Go Wild
Act like Polizist
event1959
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High school student Fabian König is kicked out of school and starts a gang that specializes in theft. He falls in love with the orphan girl Ulla, but she rejects him when she finds out how he spends his time. When the pimp Horst tries to rape Ulla, she is rescued by Fabian. Shortly afterwards, Horst's body is found and Fabian is convicted of the murder due to the false testimony of a witness. In prison, he comes to trust the prison doctor Dr. Knittel, who believes him and is able to unmask the real culprit.
Double Face
Act like Edgar Wallace (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1969 star_border 5.9
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After a businessman's unfaithful wife is seemingly killed in a car accident, he is led by several unscrupulous characters to believe that she is actually alive.
The Indian Scarf
Act like Edgar Wallace (voice)
event1963 star_border 6.5
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When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle (which is cut off from the outside world), the relatives soon begin to be killed off one by one, each strangled with an Indian scarf.
Dead Eyes of London
Act like Mann von der Fahndungsabteilung
event1961 star_border 6.2
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A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.
What Have You Done to Solange?
Act like Edgar Wallace (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited)
event1972 star_border 6.7
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After several Catholic school pupils are murdered, a teacher who is having an affair with one of his students becomes a suspect. When other gruesome murders start occurring shortly thereafter, the teacher suspects that he may be the cause of them.
The Door with Seven Locks
Act like Ansager am Flughafen (voice) / Schaulustiger / Sanitäter (voice)
event1962 star_border 6.3
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A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
An Alibi for Death
event1963 star_border 7
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Lawyer Maria Rohn takes on the case of Martin Siebeck. The truck driver allegedly ran over a man on the highway. Siebeck denies the crime and states that two people threw the victim in front of his truck at full speed. The more Maria Rohn looks into the case, the more she notices inconsistencies. Her husband Günther is also behaving more and more strangely. It seems that he was also involved in the accident...
The Squeaker
Director
event1963 star_border 6.5
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Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
Director
event1974 star_border 4.8
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The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.
Frontier Hellcat
Director
event1964 star_border 6.3
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Outlaws disguised as Indians commit crimes against settlers but Winnetou and Old Surehand are determined to unmask the bandits and keep the peace.
Flaming Frontier
Director
event1965 star_border 6.1
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Old Surehand and his faithful old friend Old Wabble are on the trail of a cold-blooded killer with the nickname 'The General'. The brother of Old Surehand was murdered by him. On the way Old Surehand and Old Wabble are involved in the running conflict between settlers and Comanches who are likely to go on the war path. Old Surehand can count on the support of his friend and blood brother Winnetou, the amiable chief of the Apaches. Written by Robert
Thunder at the Border
Director
event1966 star_border 5.6
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Firehand and his Apache friend Winnetou are determined to get justice for the murder of four young braves. They set off to track down the gang responsible for the horrendous act.
The College Girl Murders
Director
event1967 star_border 6.4
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Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas
Again the Ringer
Director
event1965 star_border 5.9
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Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit.
Creature with the Blue Hand
Director
event1967 star_border 6.1
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Scotland Yard is after a homicidal maniac called The Blue Hand, which is what he uses to kill his victims.
Mark of the Tortoise
Director
event1964 star_border 6.3
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English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by “The Tortoise” Crime Syndicate. He is to pay £ 100,000.00 Pounds to stay alive and not be murdered. After his refusal to pay the money, he is quickly killed. Cyrus‘ nephew, Don Micklem, plans to avenge the death of his uncle and sets out on a quest to expose “The Tortoise“…
The Hunchback of Soho
Director
event1966 star_border 6
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A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.
The Zombie Walks
Director
event1968 star_border 6.3
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A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring.
The Man with the Glass Eye
Director
event1969 star_border 5.4
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A man is found dead in a London hotel. The knife is still firmly stuck in the victim's chest, and Inspector Perkins strangely finds a glass eye in his jacket pocket. Kurt after that a second, mysterious murder happens: A city-famous dancer of the Las Vegas Girls, who perform at the London Odeon Theater, is poisoned. Is there a connection between the pretty dancer and the hotel guest? Inspector Perkins and his colleagues are pressed for time. The "man with the glass eye" strikes deadly again and again. A first clue leads Scotland Yard to a billiard club, where one has to show a glass eye as an admission ticket.
Hard Women
Director
event1970 star_border 5.4
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Rough-and-ready vice detective Perrak has to follow a 1000 leads during the investigation of a trans murder case. In a profoundly mysterious massage parlor he meets industrialist wife Claire Imhoff, who knows more about the crime than she wants to admit.
Anita Drögemöller und die Ruhe an der Ruhr
Director
event1976 star_border 3.3
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Anita Drögemöller has transformed herself from a small-time street prostitute into a luxury call girl. But one day she finds her former pimp dead in her apartment with a broken neck. Chief Inspector Langensiepen takes up the investigation and discovers an impenetrable web of sex, lies, raison d'état and murder.
School of Fear
Director
event1969 star_border 5.3
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A teenager named Kurrat mysteriously disappears from a German boys' school. Then a teacher is found dead; the mystery grows.
Everyone Dies Alone
Director
event1976 star_border 7.2
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When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.
And Jimmy Went to the Rainbow's Foot
Director
event1971 star_border 2
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The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna, to solve the murder of his father. Step by step, he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in secret service machinations and chemical weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger himself. Meanwhile, he also realizes that there is no connection between his father's murderess and those dubious activities. Her motive for killing him goes back much futher, to a court hearing during the Third Reich...
Long Legs, Long Fingers
Director
event1966 star_border 10
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Baron Holberg, who looks back with pride on a long family tradition as hotel thieves, is horrified when his daughter Doris falls in love with the lawyer Robert Hammond, of all people, rather than choosing the art thief Sammy, as he would wish. Under the pretext that they are being pursued by the police, he lures his daughter away from the lawyer, but when he confesses the deception to her, Doris immediately sets off for Hammond's country estate near London. However, Hammond's father is not too fond of the connection either...
Honeybun - or How Do I Tell My Daughter?
Director
event1969 star_border 3.3
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Widower Paul always delayed talking to his daughter about sex. But when workers on a nearby construction site are falling down their scaffold because 16 years old "Herzblatt" is tanning naked, he feels he has to take action. In the hope she'll learn herself what consequences the difference between boys and girls has, he tries to get her a boyfriend.
Alle Menschen werden Brüder
Director
event1973 star_border 5
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The unsuccessful writer Ritchie can't stand his brother, a criminal businessman. When both fall in love with the beautiful Lilian, a dangerous game of revenge begins.
Meine 99 Bräute
Director
event1958
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Nicki Montag is considered a true Casanova in the Munich suburbs. However, this is obviously not only down to him, but also to the numerous women who are only too happy to fall for his advances. With the help of his work-shy friend Jonny, Nicki beguiles one woman after another in a variety of ways. It doesn't matter whether it's the daughter of a greengrocer, a real lady or a proper artist's girl. In the case of the demanding Mrs. Consul Hale, it is even Nicki who is conquered.
Mit 17 weint man nicht
Director
event1960
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Horst, the 18-year-old son of a factory owner, and 17-year-old Karin dream up their future together in the most beautiful colors. Newly married, however, they don't float on cloud nine as they had hoped, but sink into the dreary everyday life of marriage. While Horst ends his school career prematurely, Karin seeks help from her father-in-law.
Bis dass das Geld euch scheidet…
Director
event1960 star_border 6
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Germany at the time of the economic miracle: the boorish and equally rude Jupp Grapsch has made a small fortune through his bustling activities. His wife Lisbeth, on the other hand, does not feel comfortable with this, but silently accepts the circumstances. Even when Jupp gets involved with the somewhat disreputable Nina Sonntag, an extravagant young woman, she accepts this at first. At some point, however, the situation escalates and Lisbeth slips a slap in the face, which Jupp cleverly wants to use to finally get rid of his wife by divorcing her. But Lisbeth refuses and so Jupp hires an unscrupulous man to create a reason for the separation in exchange for money...
Schmutziger Engel
Director
event1958
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A teacher is defamed in an obscene way by an over-excited pupil.
Das Schweigen im Walde
Director
event1976 star_border 3
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The young Count Ettingen leads a dissolute life in Munich with the demanding Baroness Prankha at his side. To finance his life, he has his uncle cut down the forests in his estate without caring about the consequences. When he catches his girlfriend having an affair, however, he retreats to the mountains. From the young alpine dairymaid Lore he learns about another side of life and wants to stop the overexploitation of the forest. But the baroness still wants his money.
Der Stoff, aus dem die Träume sind
Director
event1972 star_border 4.5
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Germany during the Cold War, a boy has fled Czechoslovakia. Star reporter Walter Roland investigates the background. In the process, he uncovers a plot: Western and Eastern agents are on the hunt for the Warsaw Pact's deployment plans against NATO, which a Czech officer has taken out of the country.
Drei Männer im Schnee
Director
event1974
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This film adaptation of Erich Kästner's book is about a millionaire who wants to travel to a hotel under a false name and test how "normal people" are treated. The hotel staff receive a warning, but mistake another man for the fake millionaire and treat him like God in France, while he doesn't feel the slightest bit of even luxurious treatment
White King
Director
event1975 star_border 5.7
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The daughter of a poor mountain farmer becomes pregnant by a young nobleman. Because he does not want to marry her, she commits suicide. Her brother Ferdl then wants to confront the count. A brawl ensues. Ferdl has to flee into the mountains, where he falls into a ravine and is presumed dead.
Tears of Blood
Director
event1972 star_border 5.2
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A story of love between French student Alain and German high school student Christine.
Unser Haus in Kamerun
Director
event1961
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A young man living in Africa is send to Hamburg by his parents to learn about business. There, he falls in love with the mistress of a friend.
Wer stirbt schon gerne unter Palmen
Director
event1974 star_border 6
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The wealthy plantation owner Pinaud is brutally murdered in Ceylon. His attractive German wife Anne is suspected of the crime and arrested by Inspector Cerdan. He is ordered to take her to Colombo. But the plane on the way there gets caught in a heavy storm and crashes shortly afterwards. Anne Pinaud and Cerdan are the only survivors of the crew and save themselves on a desert island. There they come across Werner Becker, who has been shipwrecked with his yacht and is also stranded here. While Cerdan continues to believe Anne is guilty of the crime, Werner believes she is innocent. Soon the tension between the two men builds up and they become rivals for Anne's favor.
Liebe bleibt nicht ohne Schmerzen
Director
event1980
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TV-film by Alfred Vohrer
Love Is Only a Word
Director
event1971 star_border 4
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The 21-year-old student Oliver Mansfeld attends a boarding school in Frankfurt. There he meets the married banker's wife Verena. A passionate affair develops between them, which does not remain undiscovered by Verena's husband for long.
Gott schützt die Liebenden
Director
event1973 star_border 3
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Engineer Paul Holland returns from a trip. His girlfriend Sybille has disappeared from their apartment without leaving a note. He searches for her and finds himself in the middle of a manhunt for an international drug ring.
Das gelbe Haus am Pinnasberg
Director
event1970 star_border 4
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The story of a Hamburg brothel in which the wealthy female clientele spend a lot of money on the male employees. When the boss of the house has happily married off his daughter, he sells his establishment - just in time before it literally collapses.
Verbrechen nach Schulschluß
Director
event1975 star_border 6
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Report composed of three episodes about crimes in which students are involved: A disinterested classmate is harassed with nude photos; a fake kidnapping is intended to facilitate a jealous murder; rockers go on a "Hell's Angels" style rampage.
Der Lehrer und andere Schulgeschichten
Director
event1984
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Three dramatic stories from the everyday school life of adolescent pupils.
Väter
Director
event1982
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TV-film by Alfred Vohrer
Der Alte
Director (8 ep.)
event1977 star_border 6
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A police department, lead by an older, experienced detective solve crimes together.
Derrick
Director (26 ep.)
event1974 star_border 6
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Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
Das Traumschiff
Director (6 ep.)
event1981 star_border 4.3
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The series is about a cruise ship that travels to places around the world.
The Black Forest Clinic
Director (1 ep.)
event1985 star_border 6.1
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The Black Forest Clinic is a German language medical drama television series that was produced by and filmed in West Germany. The series was produced between 1984 and 1988 with the original airing being from October 2, 1985 to March 25, 1989 on West Germany's ZDF television channel.
The series' storyline follows the inner workings of a small fictional hospital in the Black Forest region of Germany as well as the lives of the Brinkmann family of doctors who work at the hospital.
Shortly after broadcasting had begun in 1985, The Black Forest Clinic became a highly popular television event, reaching audiences of over 20 million viewers. 25 years since its debut, it is still highly regarded in Germany. The series had been re-broadcast several times since 1985 and has spawned two television films released 20 years after its initial airing.
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