Aubrey Wisberg Biography (1909-1990)

Full name, Aubrey Lionel Wisberg; born October 20, 1909 (one source says 1912), in London, England; immigrated to United States, 1921, naturalized citizen; died of cancer, March 14, 1990, in New York, NY; son of Philip and Cynthia(Shuman) Wisberg; married Barbara Duberstein.

Nationality: British
Death Details: March 14, 1990; New York, New York, United States

Famous Works

Credits; FILM WORK; PRODUCER
The Man From Planet X, Mid-Century/United Artists, 1951.
Captive Women, (also known as 1000 Years From Now and 3000 A.D.), RKO, 1952.
Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, United Artists, 1953.
Port Sinister, (also known as Beast of Paradise Island and Beast of Paradise Isle), RKO, 1953.
Problem Girls, Columbia, 1953.
Sword of Venus, (also known as Island of Monte Cristo), RKO, 1953.
Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl, Reliance/United Artists, 1954.
And director, Dragon's Gold, United Artists, 1954.
Return to Treasure Island, United Artists, 1954.
Murder Is My Beat, Allied Artists, 1955.
(With Jean Yarbrough) The Women of Pitcairn Island, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957.
Hercules in New York (also known as Hercules: The Movie), RAF-United, 1970.
Writings;SCREENPLAYS
Submarine Raider, Columbia, 1942.
Counter Espionage, Columbia, 1942.
They Came to Blow Up America, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943.
(With Kenneth Gamet) Bomber's Moon, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1943.
U-Boat Prisoner (adapted from a novel by Archie Gibbs), Columbia, 1944.
Adventures of Rusty, Columbia, 1945.
(With Gamet) Betrayal From the East (adapted from a novel by Alan Hynd),RKO, 1945.
Escape in the Fog, Columbia, 1945.
(Author of idea) Sam Hellman and James V. Kern, The Horn Blows at Midnight, Warner Bros., 1945.
The Power of the Whistler, Columbia, 1945.
(With Robert E. Kent) The Falcon's Adventure, RKO, 1946.

(With Eric Taylor) Just Before Dawn (adapted from a radio program by MaxMarcin), Columbia, 1946.
(Author of story) Martin Berkeley and Ted Thomas, Out of Depths, Columbia, 1946.
Rendezvous 24, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1946.
(Author of story) Martin Berkeley and Dwight Babcock, So Dark the Night,Columbia, 1946.
(With George Bricker) The Big Fix, Producers Releasing Corporation/Universal, 1947.
The Wreck of the Hesperus (adapted from the poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow), Columbia, 1947.
The Burning Cross, Screen Guild, 1947.
(Author of story) Art Arthur, Ernest Haycox, and Rowland Leigh, Heaven Only Knows (also known as Montana Mike), United Artists, 1947.
Road to the Big House, Somerset/Screen Guild, 1947.
(With Jack Pollexfen) Treasure of Monte Cristo, Lippert/Screen Guild, 1949.
(With Pollexfen and Gerard Drayson Adams) The Desert Hawk, Universal, 1950.
(With Elizabeth Reinhardt and Lawrence Kimble) Hit Parade of 1951, Republic, 1950.
(Author of story with Pollexfen) Walter Ferris and Joseph Hoffman, At Sword's Point (also known as Sons of the Musketeers), RKO, 1951.
(With Pollexfen) The Man From Planet X, Mid-Century/United Artists, 1951.
(With Pollexfen) Captive Women, RKO, 1952.
(With Pollexfen) Lady in the Iron Mask, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1952.
(With Pollexfen) The Neanderthal Man, United Artists, 1953.
(With Pollexfen) Captain John Smith and Pocahontas, United Artists, 1953.
(With Pollexfen) Port Sinister, RKO, 1953.
(With Pollexfen) Problem Girls, Columbia, 1953.
(Author of story) Richard Schayer, The Steel Lady (also known as Treasureof Kalifa), United Artists, 1953.
(With Pollexfen) Sword of Venus (also known as Island of Monte Cristo), RKO, 1953.
(With Pollexfen) Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl, Reliance/United Artists, 1954.
(Author of story) Hal Kantor and Edmund Hartman, Casanova's Big Night, Paramount, 1954.
(With Pollexfen) Dragon's Gold, United Artists, 1954.
(With Pollexfen) Return to Treasure Island, United Artists, 1954.
Murder Is My Beat, Allied Artists, 1955.
(With Pollexfen) Son of Sinbad, RKO, 1955, re-released as A Night in a Harem, 1961.
The Women of Pitcairn Island, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1957.
Hercules in New York (also known as Hercules: The Movie), RAF-United, 1970.
Also screenwriter for The Snow Devils, 1965; Target Minus Forty; MissionMars; Ride the Wild Wind; and Evil in the Blood.
Writings;OTHER
(With Harold Waters) Bushman at Large, Green Circle Books, 1937.
(With Waters) This Is the Life, Harrap, 1942.
(With Waters) Patrol Boat 999, Chilton, 1959.
Second Floor Front (play), first produced in Texas City, TX, 1979.
Also author of plays Thirsty Death, first produced at Biltmore Theatre, Los Angeles; Angels With Horns; Whip Hand; Royal Flush; Destiny Obscure; and Virtue, Inc. Contributor to New York Daily News, Skipper, and Chicago Tribune.

Further Reference

OBITUARIES AND OTHER SOURCES; PERIODICALS

New York Times, March 15, 1990.

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