Johannes Guter was born on April 25, 1882 in Riga, Russian Empire [now Latvia]. He was a director and writer, known for Die Frau im Käfig (1919), The Woman in Heaven (1920) and Die schwarze Pantherin (1921). He died on March 18, 1962 in Greifswald, East Germany [now Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany].