- He began his cinematical career as a director of the movie "Miss Sarah Sampson" (19). In the next years followed other movies he directed too.
- Adolf Abter was married with the singer Cilly Lasary.
- When he fled to France he was arrested and brought to the detention camp Drancy. It followed the deportation to the KZ Auschwitz Birkenau where he was murdered shortly afterwards.
- Before he became active in the film business he worked as a freelance writer and he wrote articles for the "Filmkurier" and for the "Hamburger Mittagsblatt".
- To some of these movies he also wrote the screenplay and was responsible as a producer.
- The director, producer and screenwriter Adolf Abter was only active for a few years during the German silent film era.
- With the rise of the National Socialists Adolf Abter belonged as a Jew to the hunted of his country. He had to change his first name to "Israel" in order to be identified immediately as a Jew.
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