- He directed again numerous movies in the second half of the 10s, among them "Wege, die ins Dunkle führen" (1916), "Das Gift der Medici" (1918), "Kain" (1918) and "Das Tor der Freiheit" (1919).
- When he finished his acting education he began he stage career in Amsterdam. In the next years followed engagements an many European theaters like Dessau, Magdeburg, Meiningen, Budapest and St. Gallen.
- He often wrote the screenplays for many of his movies and he appeared as an actor in front of the camera time and again.
- At the beginning of his career he often played young lovers, later he also became a demanded character actor in classic plays.
- The director and writer Walter Schmidthässler belonged to the German silent movie pioneers whose film career already started in 1910.
- Walter Schmidthässler shot his last movies as a director at the beginning of the 20s with "Die Nackt-Tänzerin" (1920) and "Mysterien der Venus" (1920). Afterwards he wrote few more screenplays for other directors.
- Many movies of Walter Schmidthässler have been gone forgotten or lost but some of the actors he spotted became big stars like Theodor Loos, Max Mack, Hans Junkermann, Emil Jannings and Hanni Weisse.
- He was contracted by Vitascope in 1910 and in the next years he shot numerous movies as a director.
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