Frederic Zelnik

Frederic Zelnik (born Friedrich Zelnik; 17 May 1885 – 29 November 1950) was an Austrian producer, director, and actor. He was one of the most important producers-directors of the German silent cinema. Zelnik achieved success through period operetta films in the 1920s and 1930s.

Biography

Friedrich Zelnik was born into a Jewish family in Czernowitz, today in Ukraine, at the time the capital of the Duchy of Bukovina in the Austrian part of the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy. After studying in Vienna, Friedrich Zelnik worked as an actor in theaters in Nürnberg, Aachen, Worms, Prague and finally Berlin, in the theaters Theater an der Königsgrätzer Straße, Berliner Theater, and Komödienhaus. Spies at the Savoy Hotel (1932) Happy (1933) The Emperor's Waltz (1933) Southern Roses (1936) The Lilac Domino (1937) Daddy Long Legs (1938) Tomorrow It Will Be Better (1939) I Killed the Count (1939)

Producer The Lost Paradise (1917) The Serenyi (1918) The Peruvian (1919) The Yellow Diplomat (1920) The Princess of the Nile (1920) The Law of the Desert (1920) The Convict of Cayenne (1921) The Buried Self (1921) The Bank Crash of Unter den Linden (1926)