Nosseck established himself as a director in the German Film Industry, but due to his Jewish background he was forced to emigrate following the Nazi takeover in 1933.
In 1934 Max Nosseck directed Buster Keaton, then struggling with alcoholism and a messy divorce, in the French feature Le Roi des Champs-Élysées.
Nosseck's American films typed him as a director of sensationalist subjects, usually juvenile-vagrancy melodramas.
The film starred Lawrence Tierney, with whom Nosseck reunited for two crime thrillers in later years.
After his American assignments, he returned to work in the German and Austrian film industries.