Walter Werner (actor)

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Walter Gotthard Werner (born April 11, 1883 in Görlitz ; † January 8, 1956 in Berlin ) was a German film and theater actor .

Life

Walter Werner worked as a stage actor from 1900 , first in the provinces, and after the First World War finally in Berlin, where he was part of the Prussian State Theater ensemble from 1919 to 1944 . From 1921 the character actor worked in silent films and became a popular supporting actor with the emergence of the sound film . His more than seventy films include UFA classics such as The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes and Dance on the Volcano , but also Nazi propaganda works such as Jud Suess and Ohm Krüger .

After the war, Werner initially worked at the Deutsches Theater Berlin . In 1951 he moved to the Schiller and Schlossparktheater ; he also made guest appearances in the stands and at the theater on Kurfürstendamm . In addition, Walter Werner was also active as a voice actor. Of the more than 60 films in which he worked in this capacity, the best known are probably Gone with the Wind (Ger. 1952; Thomas Mitchell as Gerald O'Hara) and the cartoon Pinocchio (Ger. 1951; Master Gepetto).

His grave is in the Dahlem cemetery .

Filmography (selection)

As an actor

As a voice actor

Radio plays

literature

  • Helga and Karlheinz Wendtland: Beloved Kintopp. All German feature films from 1929–1945. Artist biographies L-Z . Verlag Medium Film, Berlin 1995, ISBN 3-926945-14-1 .

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personal data
SURNAME Werner, Walter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Werner, Walter Gotthard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German film and theater actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1883
PLACE OF BIRTH Goerlitz
DATE OF DEATH January 8, 1956
Place of death Berlin