Walter Rilla
Walter Rilla | |
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Born |
Neunkirchen, German Empire | 22 August 1894
Died |
21 November 1980 86) Rosenheim, West Germany | (aged
Occupation | Actor |
Years active | 1922–1977 (film) |
Walter Rilla (22 August 1894 – 21 November 1980) was a German film actor of Jewish descent.[1] He appeared in more than 130 films between 1922 and 1977. He was born in Neunkirchen, Germany and died in Rosenheim, Germany.
Career
Having debuted on the stage, Rilla began his film in career in Germany 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, he emigrated 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.
Personal life
He was the father of film director Wolf Rilla, who directed him in the 1963 film Cairo.
Filmography
- Hannele's Journey to Heaven (1922)
- The Fall of Jerusalem (1922)
- All for Money (1923)
- The Beautiful Girl (1923)
- In the Name of the King (1924)
- Leap Into Life (1924)
- The Monk from Santarem (1924)
- The Grand Duke's Finances (1924)
- The Blackguard (1925)
- Fire of Love (1925)
- The Doll of Luna Park (1925)
- Cab No. 13 (1926)
- Should We Be Silent? (1926)
- The Ones Down There (1926)
- Her Highness Dances the Waltz (1926)
- The Divorcée (1926)
- The Fiddler of Florence (1926)
- Maytime (1926)
- The World Wants To Be Deceived (1926)
- The Queen of the Baths (1926)
- Poor Little Colombine (1927)
- The Sporck Battalion (1927)
- Children's Souls Accuse You (1927)
- That Dangerous Age (1927)
- The White Spider (1927)
- Orient Express (1927)
- Doña Juana (1928)
- The Schorrsiegel Affair (1928)
- Princess Olala (1928)
- The Last Night (1928)
- Sajenko the Soviet (1928)
- The Abduction of the Sabine Women (1928)
- Honour Thy Mother (1928)
- Eva in Silk (1928)
- Gentlemen Among Themselves (1929)
- Sin of a Beautiful Woman (1929))
- Inherited Passions (1929)
- Incest (1929)
- The Monte Cristo of Prague (1929)
- Marriage in Trouble (1929)
- The Man with the Frog (1929)
- It Happens Every Day (1930)
- Rendezvous (1930)
- The Great Longing (1930)
- Marriage in Name Only (1930)
- Different Morals (1931)
- Zirkus Leben (1931)
- Checkmate (1931)
- The Men Around Lucy (1931)
- Reckless Youth (1931)
- 24 Hours in the Life of a Woman (1931)
- Hände aus dem Dunkel (1933)
- A Certain Mr. Gran (1933)
- Un certain monsieur Grant (1933)
- Adventures on the Lido (1933)
- Der Jäger aus Kurpfalz (1933)
- The Champion of Pontresina (1934)
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
- Abdul the Damned (1935)
- Lady Windermere's Fan (1935)
- Love's Awakening (1936)
- Ein Lied klagt an (1936)
- Victoria the Great (1937)
- Mollenard (1938)
- Sixty Glorious Years (1938)
- Black Eyes (1939)
- Hell's Cargo (1939)
- The Gang's All Here (1939)
- At the Villa Rose (1940)
- The Adventures of Tartu (1943)
- Candlelight in Algeria (1944)
- Mr. Emmanuel (1944)
- Lisbon Story (1946)
- It's Hard to Be Good (1948)
- Shadow of the Eagle (1950)
- State Secret (1950)
- My Daughter Joy (1950)
- Golden Salamander (1950)
- Without a Flag (1951)
- I'll Get You for This (1951)
- Venetian Bird (1952)
- Desperate Moment (1953)
- Star of India (1954)
- The Green Carnation (1954)
- Track the Man Down (1955)
- The Gamma People (1956)
- Confessions of Felix Krull (1957)
- Scampolo (1958)
- ...und nichts als die Wahrheit (1958)
- For the First Time (1959)
- Love Now, Pay Later (1959)
- Song Without End (1960)
- Beloved Augustin (1960)
- The Secret Ways (1961)
- Our House in Cameroon (1961)
- Riviera-Story (1961)
- The Forger of London (1961)
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
- Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1962)
- Cairo (1963)
- Scotland Yard vs. Dr. Mabuse (1963)
- Death Drums Along the River (1963)
- Zimmer 13 (1964)
- The Secret of Dr. Mabuse (1964)
- The River Line (1964)
- Das siebente Opfer (1964)
- Victim Five (1964)
- Frozen Alive (1964)
- The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)
- 4 Schlüssel (1966)
- Once a Greek (1966)
- Die Rechnung – eiskalt serviert (1966)
- Martin Soldat (1966)
- Day of Anger (1967)
- Detektive (1968)
- The Girl from Rio (1969)
- Pepe, der Paukerschreck (1969)
- The Devil Came from Akasava (1971)
- Malpertuis (1971)
- Unordnung und frühes Leid (1977)
References
- ↑ Siegbert Salomon Prawer, Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933, Berghahn Books (2007), pg. 213
Bibliography
- Prawer, S.S. Between Two Worlds: The Jewish Presence in German and Austrian Film, 1910-1933. Berghahn Books, 2007.
- Dove, Richard. Journey of No Return: Five German-speaking Literary Exiles in Britain, 1933-1945. Libris, 2000.