Mayer, Carl, 1894-1944

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Name (Latin)
Mayer, Carl, 1894-1944
Date of birth
1894-11-20
Date of death
1944-07-01
Place of birth
Graz (Austria)
Place of death
London (England)
Field of activity
Motion picture authorship
Occupation
Screenwriters
Scriptwriter
Associated Language
ger eng
Gender
male
Language
ger eng
Biographical or Historical Data
Carl Mayer (1894-1944) was a German screenwriter.
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Other Identifiers
VIAF: 39551829
Wikidata: Q78758
Library of congress: n 80148641
HAI10: 000190837
Sources of Information
  • Spiess, E. Carl Mayer, 1979? (subj.)
  • Internet movie database, via WWW, Jan. 9, 2013
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Wikipedia description:

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 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.

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