Walter Richter
Walter Richter ( born May 13, 1905 in Berlin, † 26 July 1985 in Vienna ) was a German actor and radio speaker.
Life and work
The son of a merchant received for a traineeship at Deutsche Allgemeine Zeitung, among others, Ferdinand Gregori acting lessons. From 1931 on, he stepped on stage on in Bremerhaven, Gera, Breslau, Cologne and Stuttgart. From 1939 to 1941 he acted at the Municipal Theatre of Frankfurt am Main. 1941 to 1950 he played at the Deutsches Theater Berlin next 1942 to 1945 at the Theater in der Josefstadt in Vienna.
After the Second World War he worked in Zurich and from 1953 in Munich. Here he was appointed state actors and actresses chamber. He was known primarily as a worm in Intrigue and Love and as the title character in Gerhart Hauptmann Fuhrmann Henschel.
The busy stage actor Richter was a wide audience as postmaster in the movie Dunja (1955 ) and especially as a crime scene Commissioner of ARD known. As grumpy Inspector Paul Trimmel, which he embodied 1970-1982, he also broke in Taxi to Leipzig by Friedhelm Meier Werre the first scene of the crime - thriller television history. He also had appearances in Morituri, When the heather blooms or Fuhrmann Henschel. In addition, he was seen as a scissors-grinder in the three-part Babeck, a " street sweeper " from the year 1968. He also played in 1970 in the German - Swedish children's film Pippi out of hand the role of a grumpy, but kids love farmers.
In his more rare side trip into the dubbing studio he lent his colleague Jean Marais ( ... it once was ), Spencer Tracy ( Adam's Rib ) or Ernest Borgnine (in his Oscar-winning role in Marty ) the voice.
He was also a busy radio speaker. You could hear it in different genres, such as in classics such as The Bear by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Under the Pear Tree by Theodor Fontane or as far as the feet carry by Josef Martin Bauer, but also in criminal radio plays such as The Orchid Party as a private detective Nero Wolfe by Rex Stout.
His final resting he found in the cemetery military road in Berlin (near the Olympic Stadium ) on which, inter alia, Grethe Weiser is also buried.
Filmography
- * 1981: Cruises of a globetrotter: A happy couple