Alfred Travers

{{Short description|Turkish-born British screenwriter and film director (1906–?)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}} {{Infobox person | image = | imagesize = | name = Alfred Travers | birth_name = Alfred Karl Ludwig Jungermann | birth_date = 1906 | birth_place = Constantinople <br> Ottoman Empire | death_date = | death_place = | othername = | occupation = Film director <br> screenwriter | years_active = 1942–1968 }}

'''Alfred Travers''' (born '''Alfred Karl Ludwig Jungermann''';<ref>{{Cite web |title=Naturalisation Certificate: Alfred Karl Ludwig Jungermann |url=https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C11851707 |access-date=1 March 2025 |website=The National Archives}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=24 June 1947 |title=Official public record |url=https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37995/page/2871/data.pdf |work=The London Gazette |pages=2871}}</ref> 1906, date of death unknown) was a Turkish-born British screenwriter and film director.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2009-01-19 |title=BFI {{!}} Film & TV Database {{!}} TRAVERS, Alfred |url=http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/1341 |access-date=2025-03-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090119202746/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/1341 |archive-date=19 January 2009 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Alfred Travers |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1746155727 |access-date=1 March 2025 |website=BFI Film Index International - People and Institutions|id={{ProQuest|1746155727}} }}</ref>

== 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.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McFarlane |first=Brian |title=The Encyclopedia of British Film |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=2013 |isbn=9780719091391 |edition=4th |pages=767}}</ref> In the late 1960s he worked in South Africa directing TV commercials and wrote the book for the stage musical ''Eureka!'' <ref>{{Cite web |title=Alfred Travers |url=https://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php/Alfred_Travers |access-date=1 March 2025 |website=Encyclopaedia of South African Theatre, Film, Media and Performance (ESAT)}}</ref>

==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)

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==External links== * {{IMDb name|0871266}}

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