Carl Schenkel Biography ((?)-)
Born in Switzerland. Career: Director and writer. Directed televisioncommercials and wrote advertising treatments; also worked as a journalist. Awards, Honors: Bavarian Film Award, best direction, 1983, for Abwaerts..
- Nationality
- Swiss
- Gender
- Male
- Occupation
- Director, writer
Famous Works
- CREDITS
- Film Work
- Director, Unless Otherwise Noted
- Assistant director, Was Treibt Die Maus im Badehaus?, 1976
- Assistant director, Griechische Feigen (also known as The FruitIs Ripe and Fruta Madura), 1976
- Assistant director, Freude am Fliegen, 1977
- (As Carlo Ombra) Graf Dracula Beisst Jetzt Auch in Oberbayern (also known as Dracula Blows His Cool), 1979
- Kalt Wie Eis (also known as Cold as Ice), 1981
- Abwaerts (also known as Out of Order), Cinevox, 1983
- Silence like Glass (also known as Zwei Frauen), 1989
- The Mighty Quinn, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer/United Artists, 1989
- Knight Moves (also known as Face to Face and Knight Moves--Ein Moerderisches Spiel), Interstar Releasing, 1992
- Exquisite Tenderness (also known as The Surgeon and DieBestie im Weissen Kittel), A-Pix Entertainment, 1995
- Tarzan and the Lost City, Warner Bros., 1998
- Television Director
- Movies
- Bay Coven (also known as The Devils of Bay Cove, Eye ofthe Demon, and Strangers in Town), NBC, 1987
- Silhouette, NBC, 1990
- Beyond Betrayal, CBS, 1994
- In the Lake of the Woods, Fox, 1996
- Specials
- True Believer, HBO, 1986
- "Black Pudding," The Edge, HBO, 1989
- Episodic
- "The House That Jack Built," Profiler, NBC, 1996
- Other Television Work
- Director, The Hitchhiker (series; also known as Le Voyageur), 1983
- Kalte Kuesse (also known as Cold Kisses), 1997
- WRITINGS
- Screenplays
- Kalt Wie Eis (also known as Cold as Ice), 1981
- Abwaerts (also known as Out of Order), Cinevox, 1983
- Silence like Glass (also known as Zwei Frauen), 1989