- Born
- Carl Wilhelm was born on February 9, 1872 in Vienna, Austria. He is known for Die Sippschaft (1920), Das Haus der Qualen (1921) and Frau Annas Pilgerfahrt (1915).
- In 1915, with his company Cewe-Films, and in 1920/21, with Carl-Wilhelm-Film GmbH, he also operated as his own producer.
- In 1917 and 1918 he made a number of films in Hungarian.
- He was a prolific German-Jewish film director, film producer and screenwriter of the silent film era, at the end of which his career apparently entirely faded away and he vanished into obscurity.
- Carl Wilhelm remained a sought-after director until the end of the silent film period. He then ceased to work almost entirely - he is last heard of as a production assistant in 1935.
- He left Germany for Vienna after the coming to power of the Nazi party in 1933 and, already ill, joined his son Wolfgang in London where he died in 1936.
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