- Willy Gaebel was born on February 8, 1879 in Graudenz, West Prussia, Germany [now Grudziadz, Kujawsko-Pomorskie, Poland]. Willy was a cinematographer, known for Die Dame in Schwarz (1920), Ein Erpressertrick (1921) and Irrungen (1919). Willy died in May 1943.
- Among others he was working for the first movies of the later famous movie star Henny Porten.
- After 1911 followed a longer interruption in the film business which was extended by the rise of World War I. During the war he was active in his former occupation as a photographer for the air force.
- The exact year of death is not know because of the chaos of war of World War II but it is assumed that he died latest in 1945.
- The cinematographer Willibald Gaebel began his professional life as a photographer before he joined the company of Oskar Messter in 1908 where he got in touch with the film business.
- After the short movie Gewitter über Gottland (1927), he was no longer able to take hold in the film business and he worked again as a photographer.
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