Walter Holten
Walter Holten (born March 5, 1897 in Ingolstadt , † June 23, 1972 in Planegg , actually Walter Siegfried Karl Regnet ) was a German actor , radio play and voice actor .
Life
Walter Holten was born in Ingolstadt in 1897 as the son of an officer. From 1922 he appeared regularly as an actor on the theater stages in Munich , where he was seen mainly in major character roles. He first appeared in front of the camera in 1933 for Carl Boese's film Novel One Night . Numerous supporting roles followed in films such as Fahrendes Volk (1938) alongside Hans Albers and Quax, the Bruchpilot (1941) with Heinz Rühmann . Holten was temporarily a member of the Bavarian State Theater and was part of the ensemble of the Munich Volkstheater until the end of World War II . In addition, he gave acting lessons and was also active in radio, for which he received the golden radio plaque.
As early as the 1930s, he was also active as a voice actor. In 1935 he had voiced Douglas Fairbanks in The Private Life of Don Juan and Leslie Howard in The Scarlet Flower . After the Second World War he dubbed Donald Crisp ( Doctor and Demon , Schlagende Wetter ), Bing Crosby ( The Bells of St. Mary ), Montagu Love ( Robin Hood, King of the Vagabonds , In the Sign of Zorro ) and Erich von Stroheim ( Alibi , Boulevard of Dawn ).
In the 1950s he appeared again in a number of films, including As long as you are there (1953) and Sauerbruch - That was my life (1954). From 1969 to 1971 he appeared several times in the television game Royal Bavarian District Court . He died in 1972 at the age of 75 in a clinic in Planegg, Bavaria, and was buried in the Perlacher Forst cemetery in Munich. The tomb has since been closed.
Filmography
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literature
- Cooperative of German Stage Members (Ed.) Et al .: German Stage Yearbook . Volume 81, FA Günther & Sohn A.-G., 1973, p. 108.
- Thomas Bräutigam : Stars and their German voices: Lexicon of the voice actors . Marburg 2009, ISBN 978-3-89472-627-0 , p. 129.
Web links
- Walter Holten in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Walter Holten at filmportal.de
- List of his work as a voice actor on synchrondatenbank.de
- Brief portrait ( memento of October 6, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) on deutsche-synchronsprecher.de
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| SURNAME | Holten, Walter |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Raining, Walter Siegfried Karl (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, radio play and voice actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 5, 1897 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Ingolstadt |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 23, 1972 |
| Place of death | Planegg |