Alfred Travers

Alfred Travers
Born	Alfred Karl Ludwig Jungermann 1906 Constantinople Ottoman Empire
Occupation(s)	Film director screenwriter
Years active	1942–1968

Alfred Travers (born Alfred Karl Ludwig Jungermann ^{[1] [2]} ; 1906, date of death unknown) was a Turkish-born British screenwriter and film director. ^{[3] [4]}

Career

Travers came to England in the 1930s, and during World War II worked for the British Council and the Ministry of Information. After the war he joined British National Films. ^[5] In the late 1960s he worked in South Africa directing TV commercials and wrote the book for the stage musical Eureka! ^[6]

Filmography

• Non Stop nach Afrika (short) (1933) (as Alfred Jungermann)
• Kuddelmuddel (short) (1934) (as Alfred Jungermann)
• Men of Tomorrow (1942)
• Glorious Colours (1943)
• Their Invisible Inheritance (short) (1945)
• Beyond the Pylons (short) (1945)
• Meet the Navy (1946)
• Dual Alibi (1947)
• The Strangers Came (1949)
• Solution by Phone (1954)
• Don Giovanni (1955)
• Alive on Saturday (1957)
• Men of Tomorrow (short) (1959)
• Girls of the Latin Quarter (1960)
• The Primitives (1962)
• Raka (1968)
• One for the Pot (1968)

References

1. "Naturalisation Certificate: Alfred Karl Ludwig Jungermann". The National Archives . Retrieved 1 March 2025.
2. "Official public record" (PDF). The London Gazette . 24 June 1947. p. 2871.
3. "BFI | Film & TV Database | TRAVERS, Alfred". web.archive.org. 19 January 2009. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
4. "Alfred Travers". BFI Film Index International - People and Institutions. Retrieved 1 March 2025.
5. McFarlane, Brian (2013). The Encyclopedia of British Film (4th ed.). Manchester University Press. p. 767. ISBN   9780719091391.
6. "Alfred Travers". Encyclopaedia of South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance (ESAT). Retrieved 1 March 2025.

External links

• Alfred Travers at IMDb