Carl Wilhelm

Carl Wilhelm ( born February 9, 1872 in Vienna, † September 1936 in London) was an Austrian actor, film director and screenwriter.

Life

Wilhelm began his stage career in 1899 in Graz. His career took him to Znojmo (1900), Dusseldorf (1901 ) and Berlin ( 1902). In 1905 he was hired as a first hero and lover of the Burgtheater in Vienna. 1907/ 08 he also played under Max Reinhardt in Berlin.

His repertoire included the title characters in Goethe's Faust and Egmont, the Earl of Essex by Antonio Coello, as well as the pastor of the church field of Ludwig Anzengruber.

As an actor and director, he auxiliary finally approached the new medium of film. Soon he concentrated on directing. After his first work, the Producer for Oskar Messter 1909 turned short documentary A hilarious winter day in the Berlin Grunewald, William worked for a variety of other Berlin-based production company. So he turned in the period before the First World War for the German Mutoscope and Biograph GmbH in Lankwitz and the BB- film fabrication Bolten Baeckers in Steglitz a series of comedies with the silent film star Leo Peukert in the lead role.

Both his 1913 and 1914 turned comedies with Ernst Lubitsch were very successful; in 1919 he wrote a critic with respect to the first of the two: "The company marries and Meyer from Berlin are our best games against light still. "

In 1915 he worked with his Cewe film and 1920/21 with Carl -Wilhelm -Film GmbH as his own producer. By the end of the silent era Carl Wilhelm remained a busy director.

After the seizure of power by the National Socialists in 1933 William, who was of Jewish origin, returned to Vienna. He was the father of the writers Hans Wilhelm and Wolfgang Wilhelm. In October 1935, he traveled from Vienna from, emigrated with his son Wolfgang to London and died the following year.

Filmography

As a director,

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