Person
Carl Mayer
- Known for
- Writing
- Birthday
- 1894-11-20
- Place of birth
- Graz, Styria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
- Gender
- Male
- Died
- 1944-07-01
- Popularity
- 1
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.
Filmography
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