Anecdotes

Served as an infantry man during World War I.

Short, stocky character comedian and singer, on stage from 1918. His film roles tended to be comic relief, usually as a clumsy oaf or simpleton, in a variety of guises, including servant, gendarme or cabbie.

He continued his enormous creative power unperturbed after Word War II. He normally was engaged for smaller parts he always knew how to fill with life.

It took more than ten years till Rudolf Carl was able to gain a foothold in the film business.

The actor Rudolf Carl had an unhappy start into his life. His father died when he was four years old. Because his mother wasn't able to earn enough money for the living he grew up at the imperial orphanage in Vienna.

In the middle of the 30's he became established in the film business - normally as a dumb servant and naive human being - and became a kind of a primary rock in the Austrian film comedian scenery.

He joined the "Dilettantenverein Nestroybühne Brünn" after Word War I, and got an engagement at the German theater in Brünn in the same years. There he became established as a youthful comedian, in addition he also directed.