Walter Giller
Walter Giller ( born August 23, 1927 in Recklinghausen, † December 15, 2011 in Hamburg ) was a German actor.
Life
Growing up as the son of the pediatrician Walter Giller and his wife Edwine Röver born in Hamburg, the high school student was recruited as Flakhelfer early 1943. After his captivity he first began to study medicine. Giller but decided to become an actor. After internship and assistant director of the Hamburg Chamber of play with Ida honor he received in 1947 his first theater role in Thornton Wilder We are once again escaped. He took acting classes with Edward Marks in Hamburg.
From 1948 Giller received first small film roles. His first major role came in 1951 in the film Primanerinnen. Giller was a familiar face of the German Cinema of the 1950s. Sometimes funny, sometimes shy but always nice and never abusive, he represented in numerous productions of the young man next door. Only rarely offered him the opportunity to put its great potential as a character actor to the test. He played alongside Heinz Rühmann in The Captain from Köpenick ( 1956), alongside Martin Held in a spy for Germany (1956) and Roses for the Prosecutor (1959, German Film Award ) as well as with Hardy Krüger in two in a million (1961, also German Film Award ).
In the 1960 Giller mainly worked with in some of the then popular detective stories, adventure and Pauker films, while quite moved in the 1970s to television roles. With Peter Franken field as Sketch partner he often played drunken pub visitors. He intensified his theater work again and appeared primarily in tours. He also appeared as the author of two children's books out: Funny stories from Natasha and Jan (1968 ) and Walter Giller relates stories of the Good Night (1969). The award-winning teleplay The borrowed Christmas 1966 Walter Giller played alongside Michael Nowka and Wolfgang Volz under the direction of Dietrich Haugk a major role. In the 1980 Giller gave in 12teiligen children's radio drama series Schubiduu .. uh by Peter Riesenburg as the narrator 's voice.
Walter Giller and Nadja Tiller, with whom he had been married since February 5, 1956, were in the 1950s and 1960s as the " perfect couple " and were until recently often together in front of the camera. They received on 30 November 2006 together Bambi Award for her life's work. The marriage produced a daughter ( born 1959 ) and one son ( b. 1964 ). Since mid-March 2008 Giller lived with his wife in the elderly Augustinum in Hamburg.
Walter Giller died at the age of 84 years in a Hamburg hospital from the effects of cancer. He suffered since at least the end of 2008 from lung cancer. Giller was buried in the North Sea in Büsum.