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Aubrey Wisberg

Writer, Producer, Composer, Additional Credits
Born October 20, 1909Died March 14, 1990 (80 years)
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Aubrey Lionel Wisberg (October 20, 1909 – March 14, 1990) was a screenwriter, director, and producer.

He immigrated to the United States in 1921, attended New York University and Columbia University, and married Barbara Duberstein. Wisberg made his career as a screenwriter, director, and producer with credits in more than 40 films including The Big Fix, The Man from Planet X, Hercules in New York, The Neanderthal Man, Captive Women, Port Sinister and Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl. Three of his early screenplays were World War II movies: Counter-Espionage and Submarine Raider in 1942 and They Came to Blow Up America in 1943. Wisberg's 1945 film The Horn Blows at Midnight starred the comedian Jack Benny.

Wisberg was associate producer for Edward Small Productions; founder and executive producer for Wisberg Productions; and co-founder of American Pictures Corporation and Mid-Century Films. Production credits for Mid-Century Film include, The Man From Planet X (1951), Return to Treasure Island (1954) and Murder Is My Beat (1955).

Wisberg was the author of several books, including Patrol Boat 999, Savage Soldiers, This Is the Life and Bushman at Large. Wisberg was also a radio and television dramatist in the United States, Australia, and England; a radio diffusionist in Paris; and a journalist. He won the International Unity Award, from the Inter-Racial Society, for The Burning Cross. Aubrey Wisberg died of cancer in 1990 in New York City. He was 80 years old.

Known For

  • Hercules in New York
  • The Man from Planet X
  • Escape in the Fog
  • Casanova's Big Night
  • Murder Is My Beat
  • The Neanderthal Man
  • The Horn Blows at Midnight
  • So Dark the Night
  • At Sword's Point
  • Snow Devils
  • Son of Sinbad
  • The Falcon's Adventure
  • Return to Treasure Island
  • Treasure of Monte Cristo
  • The Steel Lady
  • Counter-Espionage
  • Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
  • Mission Mars
  • Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
  • Heaven Only Knows
  • Betrayal from the East

Filmography

1970
Hercules in New York · as Screenplay
1956
1955
Son of Sinbad · as Screenplay
1955
Murder Is My Beat · as Screenplay
1954
Return to Treasure Island · as Screenplay
1954
1953
1953
1953
1953
1953
1952
1952
Lady in the Iron Mask · as Screenplay
1951
1950
The Desert Hawk · as Screenplay
1948
The Wreck of the Hesperus · as Screenplay
1947
The Burning Cross · as Screenplay
1946
The Falcon's Adventure · as Screenplay
1946
1946
Just Before Dawn · as Screenplay
1945
1945
1945
Escape in the Fog · as Screenplay
1944
U-Boat Prisoner · as Screenplay
1943
1943
1942
Counter-Espionage · as Screenplay
1942

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