He joined the film business in 1915 and he wrote his first screenplays for movies like "Kehre zurück! Alles vergeben!" (1915), and "Der Katzensteg" (1915).
The transition to the sound film was no problem for him but the political change in Germany finished his film career.
Before he went to England where he earned his living as a translator of British authors.
He had to leave Germany and went to Austria because of the National Socialists. In 1938 he moved to Paris.
The screenwriter Adolf Lantz began his career at the theater where he was the manager of theaters like the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Berlin and the Theater am Zoo in Berlin.