Charles Willy Kayser

Charles Willy Kayser

Charles Willy Kayser , born in Charles Wilhelm Kaiser , (born January 28, 1881 in Metz , German Empire , † July 10, 1942 in Berlin , German Empire ) was a German actor and film director .

Life

Before he was 17, Kayser attended the Conservatory of the Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde in Vienna , where he received vocal training. He made his debut as a lyric baritone in 1898 and appeared for the first time in Berlin six months later.

He played in the subject of the youthful hero at the Raimund Theater in Vienna, but also in Karlsbad , New York , Hanover , Breslau , Riga and Amsterdam . From 1911 to 1914 he worked at the Burgtheater . In 1914 he was appointed director of the German Comedy Theater in Riga. Immediately after the outbreak of the First World War , he was arrested by the Russian authorities for alleged espionage activities and taken to Siberia.

At the beginning of 1918 he escaped from his captivity and made his way to Berlin. Kayser's film career began that same year. He has been used as a versatile supporting actor in a very large number of productions. Mostly he embodied personalities of rank such as officers, counts and in the film Waterloo 1929 even the Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm III. Kayser also tried his hand at film directing a few times.

From 1926 to 1936 there was the Charles-Willy-Kayser-Lichtspiele at Gasteiner Straße 26 in Berlin .

Filmography

• 1918: Be faithful to death
• 1918: The seventh kiss
• 1919: demon of the world. 1. The fate of Edgar Morton
• 1919: Miss Dentist
• 1919: The Secret of Holloway Castle
• 1919: The night telegram
• 1919: Melody of the Heart
• 1919: The tragedy of Manja Orsan
• 1919: Anita Jo
• 1919: The lady in the fur
• 1919: Lilli
• 1919: Lilli's marriage
• 1920: crook of society
• 1920: people
• 1920: the winner
• 1920: demon of the world. 2. Vortex of Doom
• 1920: demon of the world. 3. The golden poison
• 1920: The iron law
• 1920: The Flying Death
• 1920: Va banque
• 1920: The car ride underground (also director)
• 1920: The Amönenhof
• 1920: The cry of conscience
• 1920: The Shawl of Empress Catherine II
• 1920: Tortured Hearts - Part 1: Without a home
• 1920: Tortured Hearts - Part 2: Happiness and Glass
• 1920: The tribe
• 1920: The slow death
• 1921: Chechen revenge (also director)
• 1921: The House of Torment
• 1921: victim of chastity
• 1921: The Escape into the Hereafter or The Dark Alley of New York
• 1921: The black spider
• 1921: Help!
• 1921: Miss Beryl ... a millionaire's whim
• 1921: The dictatorship of love, 2nd part - The world without love
• 1921: The Eternal Curse
• 1921: Deceiver of the people
• 1921: Miss Venus
• 1922: Border guard in the snow
• 1922: dance of passion
• 1922: CdE
• 1922: The golden network
• 1922: Blind happiness
• 1922: The one from the circus
• 1922: Count Festenberg
• 1922: love, fool and devil
• 1923: The Rolling Fate
• 1923: The almighty dollar
• 1923: The blonde geisha
• 1924: slaves of love
• 1924: Taxless
• 1924: spring awakening
• 1924: Playing with fate
• 1924: Rose Monday
• 1924: The love letters of an abandoned woman
• 1924: The girl from Pontecuculi
• 1925: O old lad glory
• 1925: War in Peace
• 1926: The red mouse
• 1926: Cruiser Emden
• 1926: Love's lust and suffering
• 1926: The eleven Schill officers
• 1926: Our Emden
• 1927: The Lorelei
• 1927: Vice of humanity
• 1927: On the Weser
• 1927: The villa in the Tiergarten
• 1927: Did you make love on the beautiful Rhine?
• 1927: I was a student at Heidelberg
• 1928: I once had a beautiful fatherland
• 1928: The Hannerl von Rolandsbogen
• 1928: Waterloo
• 1929: masks
• 1930: If you still have a home
• 1930: The monk of St. Bartholomä
• 1931: The love doctor
• 1931: Everyone asks about Erika
• 1931: The Song of Nations
• 1931: Victoria and her hussar
• 1931: Under the spell of the mountains
• 1932: Two repair themselves
• 1932: Chauffeur Antoinette
• 1932: Theodor Körner
• 1932: Trenck
• 1933: When the village music plays on Sunday evening
• 1933: An invisible man walks through the city
• 1933: hellish pace
• 1935: an ideal husband
• 1936: It's about my life
• 1936: In the barrage of the Western Front (director only)
• 1937: Sherlock Holmes
• 1937: the beaver fur
• 1938: Holm's murderous matter
• 1938: The tiger of Esnapur
• 1938: The detours of beautiful Karl
• 1938: major alarm
• 1938: Faded melody
• 1938: Tracks blown away
• 1938: Red orchids
• 1939: The fourth does not come
• 1939: Carnival
• 1939: the poor millionaire
• 1940: enemies
• 1940: The Fraulein von Barnhelm
• 1940: The Eternal Spring
• 1941: Venus on trial
• 1941: comrades

Web links

• Charles Willy Kayser in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Charles Willy Kayser at filmportal.de
• Charles Willy Kayser at cyranos.ch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hänsel, Sylvaine and Schmitt, Angelika Kinoarchitektur in Berlin 1895-1995 , p. 237.