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William Karfiol

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  • Born
    December 10, 1875 · Klikowa, Poland - now Tarnow
  • Died
    April 29, 1945 · Berlin, Germany
  • Birth name
    Wolf Hudes

Mini bio

  • William Karfiol was born on December 10, 1875 in Klikowa, Poland - now Tarnow. He was a director and producer, known for Sein Badepuppchen (1918), Hoppla, Vater sieht's ja nicht (1919) and Benjamin, der Schüchterne (1916). He died on April 29, 1945 in Berlin, Germany.

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  • Any efforts to make a comeback in the film business in the sound film era swept of in 1933.
  • In his first movies he worked several times together with famous actors like Richard Senius, Josefine Dora, Käthe Dorsch and Paul Westermeier.
  • In the early 20s came again many movies into being he directed, afterwards his film career diminished.
  • The director and writer William Karfiol already joined the film business in 1913 and he realised numerous entertaining movies in the 10s as a director.
  • William Karfiol already wrote the screenplays to many of his movies from 1914, some of the scripts were filmed by other directors.

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