Willi Forst

Actor, Film director

1903 – 1980

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Who was Willi Forst?

Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German-speaking film audiences, as a director, one of the most significant makers of the Viennese period musical melodramas and comedies of the 1930s known as Wiener Filme. From the mid-1930s he also recorded many records, largely of sentimental Viennese songs, for the Odeon Records label owned by Carl Lindström AG.

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Born
Apr 7, 1903
Vienna
Also known as
  • Forst, Willi
  • Wilhelm Anton Frohs
  • Willy Forst
  • W. Forst
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Spouses
Nationality
  • Austria
Profession
Lived in
  • Vienna
Died
Aug 11, 1980
Vienna
Resting place
Neustift am Walde

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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