Biography

Fought with the German Army; he died in French captivity.

Stellan Rye became one of the most important directors of the still young silent film and till outbreak of World War I he realised impressive movies as a director.

The director Stellan Rye came from Denmark to Germany like few years ago Urban Gad. And like Gad he set an important course to the early German silent movie era.

With his senseless early death the film business lost an important visionary and prohibited some later masterpieces.

In "Der Student von Prag" (13) the leading actor Paul Wegener appeared twice in the same scene and Stellan Rye represented the first double role in a movie to an astonished audience. The writer of the novel for this movie - Hanns Heinz Ewers - engaged Stellan Rye personally to Germany for realizing this film version.