Max Zilzer (23 November 1868 in Budapest – 1943 in Berlin) was a Hungarian-born German stage and film actor.

Zilzer was Jewish and died under interrogation by the Gestapo during World War II. He was the father of actor Wolfgang Zilzer.

• He This Way, She That Way (1915)
• The Secret of the American Docks (1919)
• The Eyes of the World (1920)
• The Bull of Olivera (1921)
• Debit and Credit (1924)
• Cock of the Roost (1925)
• Luther (1928)
• Panic (1928)
• Girl in the Moon (1929)
• A Student's Song of Heidelberg (1930)
• Raid in St. Pauli (1932)

• Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.

• Max Zilzer at IMDb