Julius Urgiß (6 August 1873[1] – 12 March 1948[2]) was a German-Jewish screenwriter, musician,[3] and film critic.

[4] He wrote a biography of the silent-film star Henny Porten.

For seven years from 1919, he collaborated with Max Jungk, and in 1928 he worked with Friedrich Raff.

After the Nazis came to power in 1933, he emigrated from Germany and lived in New York until his death in 1948.

They had one daughter, Eva Agathe Urgiss[6] (1911–1999), who married Albert Einstein's biographer and former step-son-in-law Rudolf Kayser.