Carl Mayer

Carl Mayer
Carl Mayer (c. 1920s)
Born	(1894-11-20)20 November 1894 Graz, Styria, Austria-Hungary
Died	1 July 1944(1944-07-01) (aged 49) London, England
Resting place	Highgate Cemetery, London
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1919–1940
Notable work	The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari (1920) The Last Laugh (1924) Sunrise (1927)

Carl Mayer (20 November 1894 – 1 July 1944) was an Austrian screenwriter who wrote or co-wrote the screenplays to The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Haunted Castle (1921), Der Letzte Mann (1924), Tartuffe (1926), Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927), and 4 Devils (1928), most of them being films directed by F. W. Murnau. Mayer was a fundamental figure in the dramatic and narrative establishment of both German expressionist cinema and Kammerspielfilm.