Actor
Carl Mayer
Born 1894 · Graz, Styria, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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.
Writing

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Screenplay · 1920

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Screenplay · 1927

The Last Laugh
Screenplay · 1924

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
Idea · 1927

Pygmalion
Script Consultant · 1938

Tartuffe
Writer · 1926

The Haunted Castle
Screenplay · 1921

The Blue Light
Writer · 1932

Johannes Goth
Writer · 1920

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Story · 2005

Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire
Writer · 1920
Der Dummkopf
Screenplay · 1921