- Fought with the German Army; he died in French captivity.
- Stellan Rye became one of the most important directors of the still young silent film and till outbreak of World War I he realised impressive movies as a director.
- The director Stellan Rye came from Denmark to Germany like few years ago Urban Gad. And like Gad he set an important course to the early German silent movie era.
- With his senseless early death the film business lost an important visionary and prohibited some later masterpieces.
- In "Der Student von Prag" (13) the leading actor Paul Wegener appeared twice in the same scene and Stellan Rye represented the first double role in a movie to an astonished audience. The writer of the novel for this movie - Hanns Heinz Ewers - engaged Stellan Rye personally to Germany for realizing this film version.
- On November 14 - less than four months after the outbreak of war - Stellan Rye was seriously wounded and died in French war captivity.
- Because of his military education in Denmark Stellan Rye served as a soldier for the German army during World War I.
- He began his artistic career as an actor at the theater in Denmark. Also in his native country he made first experiences in the film business as a screenwriter for the movies "Det blaa blod - Eva" (1914) and "De Dodes Ø" (1912). In the following year he went to Germany and he wrote film history with his first movie as a director straightaway.
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