Starts his career in his hometown of Vienna, Austria, as Director of Photography on feature films, commercials and music videos.

In the late 1980’s Karl Kases becomes the Director of Photography on international productions in Europe. He shoots the TV-series “Dallas” with Larry Hagman, Patrick Duffy and George Kennedy.

“Mindwalk”, a feature film with Liv Ullman is very successful at the Sundance Film Festival of 1991 and Karl Kases moves to Hollywood.
"The Foot Shooting Party” with Leonardo Di Caprio and “Rain Without Thunder” with Jeff Daniels are examples of films Karl Kases shoots in the USA.

“Walker, Texas Ranger” a CBS prime time action-adventure, weekly one hour episodic show with Chuck Norris producing and starring, becomes the new home of Karl Kases for more than 120 episodes, from 1994 –1998. In addition he is the DOP on numerous Movies of the Week and Westerns e. g. “The Dallas Reunion” for Warner Bros. “Logan’s War” and “Sons of Thunder” for CBS.

1999 Karl Kases becomes the Director of “Walker, Texas Ranger” and member of the Director’s Guild of America (DGA). He directs the episodes "Ghost Rider", "Swan Song" and "Warriors".

Back in Europe in 2000 Karl Kases directs the ZDF/ORF Show “Schlosshotel Orth” the SAT 1 Shows “Sommer & Bolten” and “Die Kumpel”.

In 2001 the SAT 1-Event-Movie “Liebe darf alles” goes into production with Granada Films. Gudrun Landgrebe, H.W. Mayer and Miroslav Nemec are the leading roles in this two parter based upon the successful British TV-series “Reckless”.

In spring of 2002 Karl Kases directs the SAT 1 Pilot “Der Duft Des Geldes” for TEAMWORX.

In the summer of 2002 Bettina Zimmermann is “Angélique” in the grand, elegant, historic two parter for DEGETO “Das Unbezaehmbare Herz”, produced by Katharina Trebitsch.

In 2003 Karl Kases two TV-Movies follow, the Austrian Heimatfilm
“Da wo die Heimat ist” with Hansi Hinterseer and Anja Kruse and the melodram “Mit Deinen Augen” with Barbara Wussow and Christian Kohlund, both for DEGETO.