- Born to German parents in the US, he didn't realize he had US citizenship until he applied for a visa to move there in 1933.
- When he took part in Anti-Nazi films he used the pseudonym John Voigt in order to protect the life of his father who still lived in Berlin.
- After his wife had attracted some attention in 1976 in the thriller The Marathon Man (with Dustin Hoffman and Laurence Olivier ), the two came back to small film roles in Hollywood in old age.
- The last years of his life he spent in Berlin where he died on the 26th of June 1991.
- He returned from Cincinnati to Germany with his father in 1905. Only two years later Wolfgang Zilzer made his stage debut and he became a demanded child actor on German stages.
- Zilzer married the German-Jewish actress Lotte Palfi; both appeared in the 1942 movie Casablanca.
- With appearances in films from 1915 to 1986, Zilzer had one of the longest careers in cinema history.
- His mother died briefly after his birth.
- Wolfgang Zilzer was born in the USA because of an engagement of his father - the actor Max Zilzer - at an American theater.
- Thanks to Ernst Lubitsch he found work in the film "Bluebeard's Eighth Wife". Together for Lubitsch he appeared in further film adaptions like "Ninotchka" (1939) and "To Be or Not To Be" (1942).
- At the end of the 1980s Zilzer contracted Parkinson's disease and decided to return to Germany. His wife refused to do so, and their marriage ended in divorce after almost 50 years, close to both their deaths.
- After World War II the demand for German actors diminished and Wolfgang Zilzer concentrated to the theater. Occasionally he appeared on stage in Germany but returned to the USA over and over again.
- After the assumption of power through the Nazis he emigrated to Paris but returned again to Germany in 1935 and got involved in the Jewish culture alliance.
- Because of the political situation he finally left Germany in 1937 and landed again in the USA.
- Like other emigrants too Zilzer had a short entrance in "Casablanca" (1942). He played the man without a passport who is shot by French policemen at the beginning of the film.
- In the 20's he became established as a shy man in different detective movies and comedies like "Schützenliesl" (1926), "Mata Hari" (1927), Alraune" (1927) and "Thérèse Raquin" (1928).
- In 1931 he gave a guest appearance in the USA where he appeared in German versions of American movies. One year later he came back to Germany. After the assumption of power through the Nazis he emigrated to Paris but returned again to Germany in 1935 and got involved in the Jewish culture alliance.
- At the age of 14 he appeared in a film for the first time and he could finish four more films as a juvenile, among others "Der Barbier von Filmersdorf" (1915) and "Die Spinne" (1916).
- According to a 1943 Jewish Telegraphic Agency newspaper article, he "was a featured player of UFA in the palmy days before the Furore [Hitler]", but after Adolf Hitler's rise to power, Zilzer fled to France, where he worked dubbing voices in several French versions of Hollywood productions.
- In 1943 Wolfgang Zilzer decided to adopt the stage name Paul Andor because his real name was too complicated for the Americans to pronounce.
- The Internet Broadway Database lists a single credit for a Wolfgang Zilzer, in the 1943 play The Barber Had Two Sons.
- At the turn of the decade 1929/30 Zilzer recorded records for the newly founded Berlin-based "Kristall" as a refrain singer with the orchestras of Herbert Fröhlich and Bernard Etté . Two recordings with him on the Kalliope label are known from the "Berliner Rundfunk-Kapelle" Gerhard Hoffmann .
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