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. Filmography As director 1909: Ein vergnügter Wintertag im Berliner Grunewald - also actor 1911: Leibeigenschaft (with Leo Peukert) 1912: Der abgeführte Liebhaber 1912: Brüderchens Heldentat 1912: Das elfte Gebot: Du sollst nicht stören Deines Nächsten Flitterwochen 1912: Die Hand des Schicksals (with Leopoldine Konstantin) – co-director with Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers 1912: Leo, der Witwenfreund / Leo als Witwenfreund (with Leo Peukert) 1912: Mama: Roman aus dem Leben einer Schauspielerin 1912: Die Nachbarskinder – co-director with Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers 1912/13: Leo, der schwarze Münchhausen (with Leo Peukert) 1913: Die Kunstschützin (with Leo Peukert) – also actor; co-director with Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers 1913: Der Shylock von Krakau (with Rudolph Schildkraut); screenplay: Felix Salten) – also actor) 1913: Tangofieber The Firm Gets Married (1914) (with Ernst Lubitsch, Ressel Orla) 1914: Fräulein Leutnant / Fräulein Feldgrau (also screenplay together with Walter Turszinsky) 1914: Die Marketenderin (with Else Eckersberg; also screenplay together with Arno Arndt) 1914: Der Stolz der Firma. Die Geschichte