- He joined the film business in 1915 and he wrote his first screenplays for movies like "Kehre zurück! Alles vergeben!" (1915), and "Der Katzensteg" (1915).
- The transition to the sound film was no problem for him but the political change in Germany finished his film career.
- Before he went to England where he earned his living as a translator of British authors.
- He had to leave Germany and went to Austria because of the National Socialists. In 1938 he moved to Paris.
- The screenwriter Adolf Lantz began his career at the theater where he was the manager of theaters like the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Berlin and the Theater am Zoo in Berlin.
- After the National Socialists came to power, Lantz went to Austria, where he was able to sell his last screenplay, Sonnenstrahl, in 1933.
- After the annexation of Austria, he emigrated to Paris, where he edited Kurt Bernhardt's movie "Carrefour" in 1938.
- From October 1948 to April 1949, he stayed in the USA to visit his son Robert Lantz (1914-2007), a journalist, occasional producer and acting and literary agent. Adolf Lantz then returned to London. He died there four months later.
- In London, he was mainly active as a translator of English authors (Philipp Gibbs, Victor Canning).
- In the 1920s, Lantz was a busy screenwriter who mastered both light-hearted and serious material.
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