Carl Mayer
Writer
20 November 1894 — 1 July 1944 (49 years)
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.
Known For
Filmography
| 2025 | |
| 1937 | |
| 1932 | |
| 1932 | Ariane, jeune fille russe · as Screenplay |
| 1931 | |
| 1930 | |
| 1929 | |
| 1927 | Sunrise · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1925 | |
| 1924 | The Last Laugh · as Screenplay |
| 1924 | |
| 1923 | |
| 1922 | |
| 1921 | |
| 1921 | Torgus · as Screenplay |
| 1921 | Danton · as Screenplay |
| 1921 | |
| 1921 | The Haunted Castle · as Screenplay |
| 1921 | |
| 1920 | |
| 1920 | The Hunchback and the Dancer · as Screenplay |
| 1920 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari · as ScreenplayOn Plex |
| 1919 |
| 2005 | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari · as Story |
| 1938 | Pygmalion · as Script ConsultantOn Plex |
| 1936 | As You Like It · as AdaptationOn Plex |
| 1931 | Der Mann, der den Mord beging · as Dialogue |
| 1927 | Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis · as Idea |
| 1923 | The Street · as Treatment |