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Walter Rilla

Highest Rated: 83% Song Without End (1960)

Lowest Rated: 80% The Face of Fu Manchu (1965)

Birthday: Aug 22, 1894

Birthplace: Neunkirchen, Bezirk Trier, Germany

In a career spanning over 50 years, prolific German actor Walter Rilla weathered the storm of rising Nazism, fleeing his native land and finding work in British and French productions before finally returning home, where he also directed and wrote for television. Rilla started an art journal that included works by writers such as Bertolt Brecht, before becoming an assistant director in theater in the early 1920s. He next turned to acting, first appearing on the big screen in 1922, playing a steady stream of intelligent young men, including a turn in the F.W. Murnau comedy "Finances of the Grand Duke." Along with his Jewish wife, he immigrated to England in the mid '30s, landing in popular costume dramas such as "The Scarlet Pimpernel" and "Victoria the Great." As a result of World War II, many of Rilla's roles were as evil foreigners, a typecasting that mellowed into distinguished elderly gentlemen over time. Returning to West Germany in the late '50s, he found further work in a range of national and international pictures, including several "Dr. Mabuse" films and the spaghetti Western "Day of Anger." Through the '60s, he expanded his creative endeavors to include writing and directing TV movies.

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Highest rated movies

83% 39% Song Without End
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80% 30% The Face of Fu Manchu
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The Forger of London
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Star of India
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Abdul the Damned
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Sanders
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Die Rechnung - eiskalt serviert
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Lucky Nick Cain
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Cairo
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62% Golden Salamander
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Filmography

Movies

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No Score Yet 42% The Devil Came From Akasava Lord Kingsley (Character) - 1971
No Score Yet No Score Yet Future Women Ennio Rossini (Character) - 1969
No Score Yet 80% Day of Anger Murph Allan Short (Character) - 1967
No Score Yet No Score Yet Die Rechnung - eiskalt serviert John M. Clark (Character) - 1966
80% 30% The Face of Fu Manchu Prof. Muller (Character) - 1965
No Score Yet No Score Yet Room 13 Sir Marney (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Racetrack Murders Lord John Mant (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet 21% Frozen Alive Sir Keith (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Code 7 Victim 5! Wexler (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Death Ray Mirror of Dr. Mabuse Prof. Pohland (Character) - 1964
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cairo Kuchuk (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet No Score Yet Sanders Dr. Schneider (Character) - 1963
No Score Yet 61% The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm Priest (Character) - 1962
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Forger of London John Leith (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Secret Ways Jancsi (Character) - 1961
No Score Yet 76% Terror of the Mad Doctor Prof. Pohland (Character) - 1960
83% 39% Song Without End Archbishop (Character) - 1960
No Score Yet 6% The Gamma People Boronski (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet Star of India Unknown (Character) - 1956
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Green Buddha Frank Olsen (Character) - 1954
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Assassin Count Boria (Character) - 1952
No Score Yet No Score Yet Lucky Nick Cain Müller (Character) - 1951
No Score Yet 62% Golden Salamander Serafis (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet My Daughter Joy Andreas (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet State Secret Gen. Niva (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Lisbon Story Karl von Schriner (Character) - 1947
No Score Yet No Score Yet Mr. Emmanuel Brockenburg (Character) - 1945
No Score Yet No Score Yet Candlelight in Algeria Dr. Muller (Character) - 1944
No Score Yet 54% Adventures of Tartu Inspector Otto Vogel (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Adventures of Tartu Inspector Otto Vogel (Character) - 1943
No Score Yet No Score Yet Black Eyes Roudine (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet 60 Glorious Years Prince Ernst (Character) - 1938
No Score Yet No Score Yet Victoria the Great Prince Ernest (Character) - 1937
No Score Yet No Score Yet Abdul the Damned Unknown (Character) - 1936
No Score Yet No Score Yet A certain Mr. Gran Pietro Broccardo (Character) - 1934
No Score Yet No Score Yet Cab No. 13 Lucien Rebout (Character) - 1926
No Score Yet 21% The Finances of the Grand Duke Luis Hernandez (Character) - 1924

TV

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Rheingold Theatre Leonardo da Vinci (Character) 1953