Willi Wolff

Willi Wolff
Born	16 April 1883 Schonebeck, German Empire
Died	6 April 1947 (aged 63) Nice, France
Occupations	screenwriter, producer, director
Years active	1919–1935
Spouse	Ellen Richter ​ (m. 1923)​

Willi Wolff (16 April 1883 – 6 April 1947) was a German screenwriter, film producer, and director. He was married to the silent film star Ellen Richter, whose films he often worked on.

Selected filmography

Director

• Lola Montez, the King's Dancer (1922)
• The Great Unknown (1924)
• Flight Around the World (1925)
• Shadows of the Metropolis (1925)
• The Great Duchess (1926)
• Maytime (1926)
• The Imaginary Baron (1927)
• The Most Beautiful Legs of Berlin (1927)
• The Lady with the Tiger Skin (1927)
• Heads Up, Charley (1927)
• Moral (1928)
• Immorality (1928)
• The Woman Without Nerves (1930)
• Police Spy 77 (1930)
• The Adventurer of Tunis (1931)
• Madame Pompadour (1931)
• A Caprice of Pompadour (1931)
• The Secret of Johann Orth (1932)
• Manolescu, Prince of Thieves (1933)

Screenwriter

• The Monastery of Sendomir (1919)
• The Teahouse of the Ten Lotus Flowers (1919)
• Out of the Depths (1919)
• Napoleon and the Little Washerwoman (1920)
• The Love of a Thief (1920)
• Mary Tudor (1920)
• Princess Woronzoff (1920)
• The Riddle of the Sphinx (1921)
• The Adventuress of Monte Carlo (1921)
• The White Death (1921)

Bibliography

• Bach, Steven. Marlene Dietrich: Life and Legend. University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
• Ragowski, Christian. The Many Faces of Weimar Cinema: Rediscovering Germany's Filmic Legacy. Camden House, 2010.

External links

• Willi Wolff at IMDb