Walter Steinbeck
Walter Steinbeck ( born September 26, 1878 in Niederlößnitz; † August 27, 1942 in Berlin) was a German actor.
Life
The son of educator Dr. Johann Otto Gustav Steinbeck and his wife Emilie Caroline Luise born Raase moved with his parents to Berlin, where he attended high school. After high school he decided to become an actor, and took lessons with Henry Oberlander at the Royal Playhouse.
From 1900 Steinbeck received after its debut in Berlin engagements at theaters in Graz (1901 ), Oldenburg (1904 ), Breslau (1906 ), Gdansk (1907 ) and from 1909 at the Düsseldorf Schauspielhaus. In 1912 he returned to Berlin, where he played in the theater in the Hradec Králové road.
Since 1916, Steinbeck worked at the court theater Wiesbaden, where he also took over directing duties. Since 1921 he lived back in Berlin, where he performed at the Lessing Theater, the Theater am Kurfürstendamm, in the Comedy House and the Metropol Theater in comedies, revues and operettas.
Steinbeck, who had received only minor tasks film in the 1920s, was a sought-after actor with the advent of the talkies. He almost always stock charged, in supporting roles, senior officers, officials, entrepreneurs and directors.
Walter Steinbeck was married from 1912 to 1916 with actress Elinor Büller and had a daughter named Helga. In 1920 he closed his marriage to actress Tille Uhrig. He died on the stage of the Theater am Kurfürstendamm of heart failure.