Robert Heymann

{{Short description|German screenwriter and film director}}

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| name = Robert Heymann

| birth_date = 28 February 1879

| birth_place = Munich, Bavaria, German Empire

| death_date = 23 January 1946 (aged 66)

| death_place = Italy

| occupation = Director, Screenwriter

| yearsactive = 1916-1924 (film)

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Robert Heymann (1879–1946) was a German screenwriter and film director active during the silent era.Giesen p.180 He began as a playwright in 1901 and also wrote novels. He worked with the Berlin-based production company Luna Film. For them he directed the four-part Satan's Memoirs, the second most expensive German film made during the First World War.Giesen p.180 The 1931 film Panic in Chicago was adapted from his novel of the same title.Jung & Schatzberg p.222 Of Jewish heritage he had to leave Germany following the Nazi takeover.