- Father of the director Kurt Hoffmann.
- His son Kurt Hoffmann became a well-known director.
- Carl Hoffmann remained a busy cinematographer in the sound film era of the 30s.
- The cinematographer Carl Hoffmann was one of the most respected cinematographers of the German silent film whose career already began in 1913.
- He became an established cinematographer from the middle of the 10s and he was engaged for many successful productions.
- His last cinematical works came during World War II into being Via Mala" (1945) and "Shiva und die Galgenblume" (1945) which is regarded to be the last movie of the Third Reich.
- Beside his activity as a cinematographer Carl Hoffmann was also active as a director, actor and producer.
- He continued his film career in the 20s and he was responsible for impressive pictures on the big screen, among them cinematical masterpieces directed by Fritz Land and Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau.
- Like many early cinematographers Carl Hoffmann finished an education as a photographer and afterwards worked as an employee of a photographic laboratory and as a film projectionist.
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