He entered the film business in Berlin in 1919 and in his first year in the film business he already took part in more than a dozen movies.
Besides his activity as an actor he was also busy for the broadcast since 1923.
With the rise of the National Socialism Meinhart Maur had to leave Germany and he went to England. There he was able to continue his film career and he impersonated numerous support roles in movies like "Rembrandt" (1936).
In the early talkies he only took part in one more German production with "Die Koffer des Herrn O.F." (1931).