- Walter Schmidthässler was born on July 1, 1864 in Leipzig, Kingdom of Saxony [now Saxony, Germany]. He was a director and writer, known for Mysterien der Venus (1919), Edelwild (1918) and Liebesopfer (1918). He died on December 4, 1923 in Berlin, Germany.
- He directed again numerous movies in the second half of the 10s, among them "Wege, die ins Dunkle führen" (1916), "Das Gift der Medici" (1918), "Kain" (1918) and "Das Tor der Freiheit" (1919).
- When he finished his acting education he began he stage career in Amsterdam. In the next years followed engagements an many European theaters like Dessau, Magdeburg, Meiningen, Budapest and St. Gallen.
- He often wrote the screenplays for many of his movies and he appeared as an actor in front of the camera time and again.
- At the beginning of his career he often played young lovers, later he also became a demanded character actor in classic plays.
- The director and writer Walter Schmidthässler belonged to the German silent movie pioneers whose film career already started in 1910.
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