Willy Clever

Willy Clever (born August 22, 1905 in Elberfeld , German Reich , † December 1969 ) was a German actor and screenwriter .

Life

Clever began his career in the outgoing silent film as an actor and appeared in front of the camera in small and medium-sized roles until 1933. In the same year 1933 Arnold Fanck brought him to his home as one of two assistant directors in the mountaineering drama The Eternal Dream . Shortly before that, Clever had also tried to direct a short film. After managing the production of a Nazi aviation commercial with Ernst Udet in the mid-1930s, Willy Clever began writing scripts in 1938. Most of his manuscripts are hardly noteworthy, only his template for the masterful Maupassant film Romance in minor , written in 1942 together with Helmut Käutner , was remarkable and brought Clever some recognition.

Filmography

as an actor

• 1929: Spring awakening
• 1929: Revolt in the house of education
• 1929: The man in the dark
• 1930: Witnesses wanted
• 1932: The water devil from Hieflau
• 1932: Ballhaus Goldener Engel
• 1932: love of hussars
• 1933: The cold Mamsell
• 1933: Full throttle into happiness (short film, also director)

as production manager

• 1935: miracle of flight

as a screenwriter

• 1938: One night in May
• 1941: his son
• 1942: My wife Teresa
• 1942: Romance in a minor key
• 1943: love premiere
• 1943: I will carry you on my hands
• 1951: Heidelberg romance
• 1960: And that's called life

literature

• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 1: A-Heck. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1960, DNB 451560736 , p. 243.

Web links

• Willy Clever in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Willy Clever at filmportal.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ according to filmportal.de. IMDb calls August 11th