Charles Willy Kayser
Charles Willy Kayser ( born January 28, 1881 in Metz, † July 10, 1942 in Berlin) was a German actor and film director.
Life
Kayser visited not yet 17 years old, the Conservatory of the Society of Friends of Music in Vienna, where he received vocal training. As lyric baritone, he debuted in 1898 and joined half a year later for the first time in Berlin.
He played in the compartment of the young hero at the Raimund Theater in Vienna, but also in Carlsbad, New York, Hanover, Wroclaw, Riga and Amsterdam. 1911 to 1914 he worked at the Burgtheater. 1914 he was appointed director of the German comedy house in Riga. Immediately after the outbreak of the First World War he was arrested by the Russian authorities for alleged espionage and sent to Siberia.
Early 1918 he fled from his captivity and made his way to Berlin. In the same year began Kayser's film career. He was employed as a versatile supporting actor in a very large number of productions. Mostly he embodied personalities of rank as officers, counts and in the movie Waterloo 1929 even the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III .. Some times tried Kayser in film directing.
From 1926 to 1936, was in Berlin at the Gastein Road 26 Charles Willy Kayser- light games.