Paul Wegener was a German actor, writer, and film director known for his pioneering role in German expressionist cinema.
Gustav von Wangenheim was a German nobleman, actor, screenwriter and director.
Hedwig Courths-Mahler, née Ernestine Friederike Elisabeth Mahler was a German writer of formula fiction romantic novels. She used the pseudonyms Relham, H. Brand, Gonda Haack, Rose Bernd.
Werner Johannes Krauss was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the antisemitic propaganda film Jud Süß and his collaboration with the Nazis made him a controversial figure.
Carl de Vogt was a German film actor who starred in four of Fritz Lang's early films. He attended the acting school in Cologne, Germany. Together with acting he was also active as a singer and recorded several discs. His greatest hit was "Der Fremdenlegionär". An extremely successful actor in his early career, he died in relative obscurity in 1970.
Lya Mara was a Polish actress. She was one of the biggest stars of the German silent cinema.
Conrad Wiene was an actor, screenwriter, film producer and director of Austrian and German silent film. He was the younger brother of German film director Robert Wiene.
Theodor August Konrad Loos was a German actor.
Géza von Bolváry was a Hungarian actor, screenwriter, and film director, who worked principally in Germany and Austria.
Rosa Valetti, born Rosa Alice Vallentin, was a German actress, cabaret performer, and singer.
Jacob Fleck was an Austrian film director, screenwriter, film producer and cameraman. He is noted for his long-standing professional partnership with his wife Luise Fleck who co-directed his films with him.
Ladislaus Vajda was a Hungarian screenwriter. He wrote for 40 films in Hungary, Austria and Germany between 1916 and 1932. He was born in Eger, Northern Hungary and died in Berlin, Germany. He was the father of Hungarian film director Ladislao Vajda.
Harry Liedtke was a German film actor.
Leo Koffler (1879—1931) was a screenwriter, actor and singer. Living and working in Berlin in the beginning of the 20th century, he was one of the pioneers of cinema.
Reinhold Schünzel was a German actor and director, active in both Germany and the United States. The son of a German father and a Jewish mother, he was born in St. Pauli, the poorest part of Hamburg. Despite being of Jewish ancestry, Schünzel was allowed by the Nazis to continue making films for several years until he eventually left in 1937 to live abroad.
Emil Rameau was a German film and theatre actor, and for many years the deputy artistic director at the Schiller Theater. He appeared in nearly 100 films between 1915 and 1949.
Otto Rippert was a German film director during the silent film era.
Rosa Porten was a prolific German screenwriter, actress, and director during the silent film era.
Homunculus is a six chapter German science fiction silent serial directed by Otto Rippert and written by Robert Reinert. Other sources list Robert Neuss as a co-writer. The most successful German-made film series produced during World War I, it was theatrically released between August 1916 and January 1917 in six parts running approximately one hour each.
Paul Bender was a German operatic bass.
