Alfred Travers

{{Short description|Turkish-born British screenwriter and film director (1906–?)}}

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| name = Alfred Travers

| birth_name = Alfred Karl Ludwig Jungermann

| birth_date = 1906

| birth_place = Constantinople
Ottoman Empire

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| occupation = Film director
screenwriter

| years_active = 19421968

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Alfred Travers (born Alfred Karl Ludwig Jungermann;{{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}}{{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}} 1906, date of death unknown) was a Turkish-born British screenwriter and film director.{{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 }}{{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}} }}

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.{{Cite book |last=McFarlane |first=Brian |title=The Encyclopedia of British Film |publisher=Manchester University Press |year=2013 |isbn=9780719091391 |edition=4th |pages=767}} In the late 1960s he worked in South Africa directing TV commercials and wrote the book for the stage musical Eureka! {{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)}}

Filmography

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