Already directed his first movie in 1913 with "Fieska" (1913) but only after World War I he was able to gain a foothold in the film business.
He only realised sporadically feature movies.
In 1919 he was an administrator of the Internationale Film-Industrie company in Heidelberg, which specialized in detective movies and westerns.
Phil Jutzi often wrote the script to his movies.
Jutzi was self-educated. (He seems to have been generally known by the Palatinate dialect form of his given name, Piel, but a lawsuit by Harry Piel forced him to go by "Phil," though many journalists continued to use "Piel."[.