Carl Mayer
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1894-11-20 (50 years old)
Deathday
1944-07-01
Place of Birth
Graz, Styria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Also known As
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Carl Mayer
Biography
Carl Mayer (20 November 1894 – 1 July 1944) was an Austrian screenwriter who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Head of Janus (1920), The Haunted Castle (1921), Der Letzte Mann (1924), Tartuffe (1926), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and 4 Devils (1928), most of them being films directed by F. W. Murnau. Mayer was a fundamental figure in the dramatic and narrative establishment of both German Expressionist cinema and Kammerspielfilm.
Production
1927
as Author
1937
as Writer
1921
as Screenplay
1927
as Screenplay
1924
as Screenplay
1921
as Screenplay
2005
as Story
1936
as Adaptation
1939
as Script Consultant
1920
as Writer
1930
as Writer
1921
as Writer
1931
as Writer
1922
as Writer
1923
as Writer
1928
as Scenario Writer
1924
as Writer
1932
as Writer
1932
as Writer
1921
as Writer
1921
as Writer
1923
as Writer
1932
as Screenplay
1920
as Screenplay
1921
as Dramaturgy
1921
as Screenplay
1921
as Screenplay
1929
as Writer
1931
as Dialogue
1920
as Writer
1920
as Screenplay
1919
as Writer
1921
as Screenplay
1932
as Writer
1926
as Writer
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