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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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.
Filmography
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1970
Hercules in New York
Movie Screenplay
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1968
Mission Mars
Movie Story
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1967
Snow Devils
Movie Story
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1956
The Women of Pitcairn Island
Movie Novel
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1955
Son of Sinbad
Movie Screenplay
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1955
Murder Is My Beat
Movie Screenplay
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1954
Return to Treasure Island
Movie Screenplay
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1954
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl
Movie Producer
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1954
Casanova's Big Night
Movie Story
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1954
Dragon's Gold
Movie Director
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1953
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas
Movie Screenplay
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1953
The Steel Lady
Movie Story
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1953
The Neanderthal Man
Movie Writer
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1953
Port Sinister
Movie Writer
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1953
Problem Girls
Movie Writer
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1953
Sword of Venus
Movie Writer
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1952
Captive Women
Movie Writer
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1952
Lady in the Iron Mask
Movie Screenplay
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1952
At Sword's Point
Movie Story
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1951
The Man from Planet X
Movie Writer
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1950
Hit Parade of 1951
Movie Story
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1950
The Desert Hawk
Movie Screenplay
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1949
Treasure of Monte Cristo
Movie Story
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1948
The Wreck of the Hesperus
Movie Screenplay
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1947
Road to the Big House
Movie Screenplay
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1947
Heaven Only Knows
Movie Story
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1947
The Burning Cross
Movie Screenplay
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1946
The Falcon's Adventure
Movie Screenplay
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1946
So Dark the Night
Movie Writer
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1946
Rendezvous 24
Movie Writer
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1946
Just Before Dawn
Movie Screenplay
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1945
Out of the Depths
Movie Story
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1945
Adventures of Rusty
Movie Writer
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1945
The Horn Blows at Midnight
Movie Story
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1945
Betrayal from the East
Movie Adaptation
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1945
The Power of the Whistler
Movie Writer
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1945
Escape in the Fog
Movie Screenplay
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1944
U-Boat Prisoner
Movie Screenplay
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1943
Bomber's Moon
Movie Writer
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1943
They Came to Blow Up America
Movie Writer