Anton Walbrook

Anton Walbrook was born on the 19^th November 1896; he died on the 9^th August 1967. He was an Austrian actor who settled in the UK.

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Life and Career

Anton Walbrook was born in the city of Vienna with the name Adolf Wohlbrück. He was the son of Gisela Rosa (Cohn) and Adolf Ferdinand Bernhard Hermann Wohlbrück. He started his career as an actor in the Austrian theatre and cinema

He went to the Hollywood to reshoot dialogue for the multinational movie called The soldier and the Lady in the year 1937 and in the process of doing so, he changed his name from Adolf to Anton. Rather than moving back to Austria, Walbrook, who was a gay and categorized under the Nuremberg Laws as half-Jewish, he settled in England and kept on with his career as an actor.

Selected Filmography

In Austrian and in Germany

Ø  Martin Luther (1923)

Ø  The Pride of Company Three (1932)

Ø  Three from the Unemployment Office (1932)

Ø  Melody of Love (1932)

Ø  Walzerkrieg (1933), aka Waltz Time in Vienna, as Johann Strauss           

Ø  Viktor und Viktoria, aka Viktor and Viktoria (1933)

Ø  Keine Angst Vor Liebe (1933)

Ø  Die vertauschte Braut (1934)

Ø  Maskerade, aka Masquerade in Vienna (1934)

Ø  The English Marriage (1934)

Ø  Regine (1935)

Ø  Der Student von Prag (1935), aka The Student of Prague

Ø  Ich war Jack Mortimer (1935)

Ø  Der Zigeunerbaron (1935)

Ø  Der Kurier des Zaren (1936)

Ø  Tomfoolery (1936)

After leaving Germany

Ø  Michael Strogoff (as Michael Strogoff

Ø  The Rat (1937)

Ø  The Soldier and the Lady (1937) as Michael Strogoff

Ø  Victoria the Great (1937) as Prince Albert

Ø  Sixty Glorious Years (1938) as Prince Albert

Ø  Gaslight (1940)

Ø  Dangerous Moonlight (1941)

Ø  49th Parallel (1941)

Ø  The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943)

Ø  The Man from Morocco (1945)

Ø  The Red Shoes (1948)

Ø  The Queen of Spades (1949)

Ø  La Ronde (1950)

Ø  Le Plaisir (1952) narrator in German version

Ø  L'affaire Maurizius (1954)

Ø  Lola Montès (1955) as King Ludwig I of Bavaria

Ø  Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955)

Ø  Saint Joan (1957)

Ø  I Accuse! (1958) as Major Esterhazy