Walter Rilla
Walter Rilla (22 August 1894 – 21 November 1980) was a German film actor. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1922 and 1977. He was born in Neunkirchen, Germany and died in Rosenheim, Germany.
Walter Rilla
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- Full name
- Walter Wilhelm Karl Ernst Rilla.
- Born
- 1894. · Neunkirchen.
- Died
- 1980. · Rosenheim.
- Nationality
- Germany.
- Occupation
- actor, writer, screenwriter and director.
- Honours
- German Film Award.
- Languages
- German.
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Rilla began his acting career on the German stage, then debuted in film during the silent era. This included an early role for him in Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's The Grand Duke's Finances in 1924. Following the rise of the Nazi Party to power in 1933, Rilla, a member of the communist party, immigrated in 1936 to Britain and became a regular performer in British films often in villainous or aristocratic roles. Both during and after the Second World War he played Nazi officers or agents. From the 1950s onwards he returned to West Germany to appear in films and on television, alternating this with continued roles in British cinema. He was the father of film director Wolf Rilla, who directed him in the 1963 film Cairo.
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Walter Rilla died at Rosenheim.
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- Dove, Richard. Journey of No Return: Five German-speaking Literary Exiles in Britain, 1933-1945. Libris, 2000.
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