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Willi Forst

Austrian actor, singer, director, producer, playwright (1903-1980)

  • Fame51.7
  • Momentum7.5
  • Wikipedia1.4K
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Lived 1903–1980, aged 77Austria
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  • Era
    1903–1980
    Aged 77
  • Known for
    Sodom and Gomorrah
    1922
Summary
Updated 2026-06-19

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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  • German Film Award
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51.7
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Momentum7.5
Historical16.9
Source confidence65.0
Completeness75.0
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