Carl Mayer

1894–1944 (age 50)

Biography

Carl Mayer brought a refined sensibility to the emerging art of screenwriting, helping to shape the scripts that gave German expressionism its haunting visual poetry in the interwar years.

Friends valued the gentleness with which he guided collaborators, and those who visit Highgate Cemetery recall how his imagination lent dignity to cinema's early adventures.

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