- Born
- Died
- Birth nameMax David Gotthelf Sroke
- Max Obal was born on September 4, 1881 in Brieg, Silesia, Germany [now Brzeg, Opolskie, Poland]. He was a director and writer, known for Das Rattenloch (1921), Sein Rekordflug (1914) and Der größte Gauner des Jahrhunderts (1928). He died on May 18, 1949 in Wilmersdorf, Berlin, Germany.
- Max Obal early concentrated to the direction of movies and he shot his first movie with "Der Höflichkeitsabend" (1911).
- His last movies as a director came in the 30s into being.
- At the age of 20 he made his artistic debut as a chorus singer in Hamburg and at this time he already used his pseudonym Max Obal.
- After a so-called bourgeois education for optic and fine mechanics Max Obal turned towards acting and he got acting lessons at the Schauspielhaus Hamburg.
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