Walter Pott (actor)

Walter Hermann Karl Pott (born February 24, 1917 in Hanover ; † October 21, 1972 in Mannheim ) was a German actor on the stage, film and television.

Live and act

Pott received his acting training in his hometown of Hanover in 1935/36, but at that time had already been employed as an apprentice at the theater there since 1934. In 1936 he went to the Gelsenkirchen City Theater as a young comedian for three years, during which time he could also be seen at the Mellini Theater in Hanover during the summer breaks. Walter Pott spent the war years from 1939 to 1945 on tours of the Wehrmacht (Norway). He also appeared in captivity as a prisoner of war in 1945 (on a stage).

Walter Pott started his post-war activities again in Hanover, this time as a comedian but also as a director. In 1946 Pott moved to Mannheim, where he spent many years at the National Theater there, both acting as an actor and directing; This is also the case with the humorous pieces “Der Lampenschirm”, “Der Etappenhase” and “Beauberdes Fräulein”. His Mannheim roles include the slip in Shakespeare's “A Midsummer Night's Dream” and the Probstein in “As You Like It”, Uncle Gustav in Burckhard's “Fireworks”, Cornelius Hackl in Wilder's “Die Heiratsvermittlerin” and Momme in Weisenborn's “Two Angels Rise “ Off.

With the exception of a single film role in a crime film from 1950, Walter Pott did not appear regularly in front of the camera until 1961 and in the next decade worked exclusively on television productions. Although it was also used there in cheerful subjects, Pott also worked in heavier productions that sometimes had a literary background, including Goethe's "Egmont", "The Good Man of Sezuan" (after Bertolt Brecht) and "Danton's Death" (after Georg Büchner). Most of the time he only played very small roles in these films. Walter Pott also worked early on for radio: 1935/36 for the Hanover station, 1940 to 1945 for the German soldiers' station in Oslo and from 1946 at the Heidelberg station, where he also participated in a number of radio plays.

Filmography

• 1950: who drove the gray Ford?
• 1961: Uncle Harry
• 1961: Schweyk in World War II
• 1962: Egmont
• 1963: Danton's death
• 1965: time out
• 1966: The good man of Sezuan
• 1967: Crumble's last chance
• 1967: the day the children disappeared
• 1968: Bel Ami
• 1968: Anna Böckler
• 1969: The chest of drawers
• 1969: colleague Bindelmann
• 1969: Stewardesses (TV series, episode)
• 1970: The Spanish fly
• 1970: right or wrong (multiple episodes)
• 1972: Diamond Party

literature

• Herbert A. Frenzel , Hans Joachim Moser (ed.): Kürschner's biographical theater manual. Drama, opera, film, radio. Germany, Austria, Switzerland. De Gruyter, Berlin 1956, DNB 010075518 , p. 565.
• Johann Caspar Glenzdorf: Glenzdorf's international film lexicon. Biographical manual for the entire film industry. Volume 3: Peit – Zz. Prominent-Filmverlag, Bad Münder 1961, DNB 451560752 , p. 3122.

Web links

• Walter Pott in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Walter Pott at filmportal.de