Max Skladanowsky was born on April 30, 1863 in Berlin, Germany. He was a director and producer, known for Liebigs Fleischextrakt (1897), Die Serpentintänzerin (1895) and Kamarinskaja (1895). He was married to Gertrud Anna Pauline Marx and Else Ranzen. He died on November 30, 1939 in Berlin.