Walter O. Stahl
Walter O. Stahl (* 3. June 1884 as Walter Oscar Erich Simon in Bonn , † 6. August 1943 in Hollywood , United States ) was a German actor, theater director and -intendant.
Live and act
Theater work in Germany
Stahl had studied law for a few semesters before joining the stage in 1908. Via Bromberg and Gera he came to Meiningen in 1909 , where he appeared at the court theater there until 1913 . Then Stahl moved to the Thalia Theater in Hamburg. There he was also allowed to direct. From 1925 Stahl worked as theater director in Frankfurt (Oder) and Görlitz . In the latter city, he was surprised by National Socialism in 1933. Thereupon, released as a Jew, Stahl fled to Vienna that same year , where he found employment at the Komödie both as senior director and deputy director. On the side, he found two opportunities to appear in the film.
Exile in the USA
After his last Austrian film, Stahl emigrated and immigrated to the USA via San Francisco . There, in the last six years of his life, Stahl found employment as a minor actor in a number of Hollywood films. Initially, Wilhelm Dieterle in particular gave him small tasks in the works he staged. In countless Warner Bros. productions with a predominantly anti-Nazi note, he was filled with sometimes tiny so-called foreigner roles . At the beginning of August 1943, Stahl, who had applied for his naturalization on June 2, 1937, took his own life, as his colleague from Meiningen's days together, Rudolf Frank , reported in his memoir.
Stahl was married to the theater actress Edith Gertrud Krohn (1889–1965).
Filmography
- 1934: Boards that mean the world
- 1935: Dschainah, the girl from the dance house
- 1936: Today is the best day of my life
- 1937: The Life of Emile Zola (The Life of Emile Zola)
- 1938: I'll Take Romance
- 1938: Little Miss Roughneck
- 1939: Juarez
- 1939: Hitler - Beast of Berlin
- 1939: The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( The Hunchback of Notre Dame)
- 1940: Paul Ehrlich - A Life for Research (Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet)
- 1940: A Dispatch from Reuter's
- 1941: So Ends Our Night
- 1941: The woman speaks of it (Woman of the Year)
- 1942: There were once honeymoon (Once Upon a Honeymoon)
- 1942: Reunion in France
- 1943 Hazardous honeymoon (Above Suspicion)
- 1943: Phantom of the Opera
- 1943: The Wacht am Rhein (Watch on the Rhine)
- 1945: I Was a Criminal [filmed in 1941]
Web links
- Walter O. Stahl on meiningen.de
- Walter O. Stahl in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Other sources speak of a marriage with the journalist Irene Rohan. See for example the film database IMDb
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stahl, Walter O. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Simon, Walter Oscar Erich (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German actor, theater director and director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 3, 1884 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Bonn |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 6, 1943 |
| Place of death | Hollywood |