Carl Wilhelm
Carl Wilhelm (born 1872 in Vienna; died in London 1936), was a prolific German film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era, at the end of which his career apparently entirely faded away and he vanished into obscurity. Life. After his first work, the short documentary film "Ein vergnügter Wintertag im Berliner Grunewald", made for the producer Oskar Messter in 1909, Wilhelm worked for many other Berlin production companies. For example, in the years before World War I, he filmed for "Deutsche Mutoskop- und Biograph GmbH" in Lankwitz and "BB-Film-Fabrikation Bolten-Baeckers  in Steglitz a series of comedies starring the silent film star Leo Peukert. The two comedies he shot in 1913 and 1914 with Ernst Lubitsch - Die Firma heiratet" and "Der Stolz der Firma" - were very successful. As late as 1919 a critic could write: ""Die Firma heiratet" and "Meyer aus Berlin" are still our best films." In 1915, with his company "Cewe-Films", and in 1920/21, with "Carl-Wilhelm-Film GmbH", he also operated as his own producer. In 1917 and 1918 he made a number of films in Hungarian. Carl Wilhelm remained a sought-after director until the end  of the silent film period. He then ceased to work almost entirely - he is last heard of as a production assistant in 1935. He left Germany for Vienna after the coming to power of the Nazi party in 1933 and, already ill, joined his son Wolfgang in London where he died in 1936.