Trivia

His wife, Annie Arden, was a Continental actress

He entered the film business in Berlin in 1919 and in his first year in the film business he already took part in more than a dozen movies.

Besides his activity as an actor he was also busy for the broadcast since 1923.

With the rise of the National Socialism Meinhart Maur had to leave Germany and he went to England. There he was able to continue his film career and he impersonated numerous support roles in movies like "Rembrandt" (1936).

In the early talkies he only took part in one more German production with "Die Koffer des Herrn O.F." (1931).

In the 20s he only appeared seldom in movies with the exception of the year 1920 and he concentrated again to the theater.

The actor Meinhart Maur made first acting experiences at the Schauspielhaus in Düsseldorf where he was active from 1906. In the next years he got engagements in cities like Koblenz, Mannheim and Berlin.

He took the stage-name Meinhart Maur in 1903, upon moving to Germany, where he studied at the Dusseldorf Academy.

Maur moved to England in 1936 to appear in the A. Korda film Rembrandt and remained there with his wife, Czechoslavakian actress Anna Ascher (stage-name Annie Arden).

Recruited by the Max Reinhardt Theatres in Berlin, he gave stage, screen, and radio performances throughout Europe, and was also active in the Jewish theater.