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- Hans Theyer was born on June 11, 1884 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a cinematographer and director, known for Fräulein Frau (1923), Die Rache der Pharaonen (1925) and Der G'wissenswurm (1917). He died on July 18, 1955 in Vienna, Austria.
- He has a son named Hans Heinz Theyer (Hans H. Theyer, born 1910)
- Besides Europa he was also often in Asia. Later he shot propaganda movies during World War I.
- The cinematographer Hans Theyer finished an education at the Graphische Lehr- und Versuchsanstalt in Vienna before he began his professional career by Pathé Frères. For this company he shot numerous documentaries which led him around the world.
- He realised his first feature movie as a cinematographer in 1914 with "Durchs Ziel" (1914) but his real film career as a cinematographer began in 1920.
- Besides his activity as a cinematographer he also realised few movies as a director.
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