He founded his own film company in 1917 and he began to realize numerous movies as a director, producer and writer. Many of those movie titles are not documented unfortunately.
His brother was the cinematographer Karl Attenberger.
In 1909 he got in touch with the film business where he learned his skills from scratch.
He retired in 1934 from the film business and Toni Attenberger turned toward writing. To his books, which normally deals with nature too. To his books belong "Der lachende Pudel" (1939), "Der endlose Wald" (1940) and "Mi-Ur - der Tiger" (1948).
The director and writer Toni Attenberger began his professional career at a newspaper where he was working as a temporary personnel of the editorial office and as a reporter in different cities.