- Austrian-born director, a former stage actor, prolific in German silent cinema during the 1920s with UFA. After a brief spell in Hollywood directing "women's pictures", he started working in Britain (for British International Pictures) from 1931. He became a British citizen in 1938. His films ranged from operettas and light romantic comedies to crime thrillers.
- He entered the film business as an actor in 1915 and his first movie was "Zucker und Zimt" (1915).
- The director Paul Ludwig Stein began his career as a stage actor in Berlin where he appeared at the "Reinhardt-Bühnen" among others. He also wrote few plays.
- He left Germany and he went to the USA and later to England where he was able to continue his film career as a director.
- His last cinematical work came one year before his death into being with "The 20 Questions Murder Mystery" (1950).
- He became a demanded movie director from 1918.
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