Willi Forst
Austrian actor, singer, director, producer, playwright (1903-1980) · Austria · On the map · Actors · Died at 77
Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer.
Willi Forst is read about 48 times a day, in 18 languages.
A typical day, 30 days to 6 November 2026
The middle day of the days counted, so one week of news cannot move it. The line under it is the last 112 days, one point a day.
Something wrong?A life in dates
Die unentschuldigte StundeFilm, Director, Writer1954
It Was Always So Nice with YouFilm, Regisseur1952
The White Horse InnFilm, Director1949
Viennese GirlsFilm, Director, Writer1943
Women Are No AngelsFilm, Director, Producer1942
Vienna BloodFilm, Director, Writer1939
Bel AmiFilm, Director, Writer1937
Love in Stunt FlyingFilm, Writer, Producer1935
MazurkaFilm, Director, Writer1934
I Don't Know You and I Love YouFilm, Robert Ottmar1932
A Blonde DreamFilm, Willy II1930
A Student's Song of HeidelbergFilm, Robert Dahlberg1929
AtlantikFilm, Poldi1922
Sodom and GomorrahFilm, extra1903Born7 April 1903People around Willi
Close ties
Olga Chekhova Willi directed Maskerade and Burgtheater
Gustav Ucicky Directed Café Elektric and A Better Master
Hans Moser Willi directed Gently My Songs Entreat (1933)
Paul Hörbiger Willi directed Operetta (1940)
Géza von Bolváry Directed Der Raub der Mona Lisa (1931)
Fritz Odemar Also in Der Raub der Mona Lisa (1931)
Hedwig Bleibtreu Willi directed Women Are No Angels (1943)
Walter Reisch Wrote Der Raub der Mona Lisa (1931)
Adrian Hoven Willi directed The Unexcused Hour (1957)
Hilde Hildebrand Willi directed Tomfoolery and Bel Ami
Oskar Sima Willi directed Kaiserjäger (1956)
Karl Hartl Directed Café Elektric and So Ended a Great Love
Arnold Pressburger Produced Sodom and Gomorrah (1922)
Erik Frey Willi directed Viennese Girls and Burgtheater- Maria Holst Willi produced Operetta and Wiener Blut
Fritz Imhoff Willi directed Maskerade and Viennese Girls
Curd Jürgens Willi directed Women Are No Angels (1943)
Gustaf Gründgens Also in Der Raub der Mona Lisa (1931)
Robert Stolz Wrote Der Raub der Mona Lisa (1931)
Erich Dunskus Willi produced Bel Ami and Capers
Erika Remberg Willi directed The Unexcused Hour (1957)
Otto Treßler Willi directed Gently My Songs Entreat (1933)
Angelo Ferrari Also in Der Raub der Mona Lisa and Folly of Love- Günther Stapenhorst Produced The Convict from Istanbul (1929)
Filmography 40
99 credits on file
Awards
About this person
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.
