Walter Rilla

Walter Rilla

Nacimiento : 1894-08-21, Neunkirchen, Germany

Muerte : 1980-11-21

Historia

Walter Rilla (22 August 1894 – 21 November 1980) was a German film actor of Jewish descent. He appeared in more than 130 films between 1922 and 1977. He was born in Neunkirchen, Germany and died in Rosenheim, Germany. He was the father of the director Wolf Rilla, who directed him in Cairo.

Perfil

Walter Rilla

Películas

Waffen für Amerika
Maurepas
Based on the play by Lion Feuchtwanger.
Auf neutralem Boden
Otis
El diablo que vino de Akasawa
Lord Kingsley
En la ciudad africana de Akasawa se ha descubierto una extraña sustancia que ciega a las personas. Varias personas, representando diferentes intereses internacionales, combaten por hacerse con ella y un agente del servicio británico llega para investigar el caso, con el pretexto de hacer turismo.
Malpertuis
Eisengott
Cassavio (Orson Welles) es un extraño personaje que, al borde de su muerte, lega a sus descendientes su fortuna y su mansión “Malpertius”. Un caserón que esconde un oscuro secreto y del que es muy difícil escapar.
Millionen nach Mass
Sir Charles
Das Vermächtnis
Director
Pepe, der Paukerschreck
Ministerialdirektor Reichert
Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft secretly places his nephew as a spy with the difficult class of Pepe Nietnagel. During the celebration for the 100th anniversary, a simulated fire forces the school to shut down for a week. The director's attempt to get a tough teacher assigned by the department of education results in the exact opposite because of Nietnagel's intervention.
Detective
Krüger
Drama realista sobre dos amigos que tienen una agencia privada de detectives.
La ciudad sin hombres
Ennio Rossini
Sumuru, la hermosa líder del reino exclusivamente femenino de Femina, planea usar sus mujeres para tomar el mundo.
Madame Legros
Baron de Clairvaux
Die Reisegesellschaft
Graf de Bréville
El día de la ira
Murph Allan Short
Scott es un pobre vagabundo que malvive limpiando las calles del desértico y tranquilo pueblo de Clifton, un poblado en el que todos se ríen de él por ser el hijo bastardo de un prostituta. Pero todo cambia con la llegada del personaje de Travis (Lee Van Cleef), un veterano pistolero letal al que todos temen. Travis toma al chico como aprendiz, y le enseña a usar las armas, con lo cual ya puede defenderse. Por desgracia, todo el odio y la resignación que llevaba el chico dentro comienzan a salir.
Der Tod des Sokrates
Director
Der Heldenmantel
Director
Helm
Kenkmann
Alles zum Guten
Salvo Manfroni
Der Befehl
Jan de Goede
Soldier Martin
Général von Haffelrats
A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.
Once a Greek
State Preisent
An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.
Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included
John M. Clark
Fourth Jerry Cotton movie. Here's another good entry into Nader's "G-man Jerry Cotton" series. A delivery truck from the U.S. Mint is hijacked.
Die venezianische Tür
Teapot-Johnny
Die venezianische Tür
Director
4 Schlüssel
Eduard Rose
El regreso de Fu-Manchú
Prof. Hans Muller-Mertens
Una serie de misteriosos estrangulamientos en Londres hacen sospechar a Nyland Smith, de Scotland Yard, que el diabólico Fu Manchú sigue vivo.
Abends Kammermusik
Bernhard Aldinghausen
Platons Gastmahl
Director
Der Fall Klaus Fuchs
Professor Paiser
24 Stunden im Leben einer Frau
Dr. Emerich
Ein Abschiedsgeschenk
Director
Columbus - Bericht und Bildnis
Director
Frozen Alive
Sir Keith
A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before he is frozen, his wife is killed, and he is suspected of her murder. a murder suspect.
The Racetrack Murders
Lord John Mant
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thoroughbred winning an important event.
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
Prof. Pohland
The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.
La montaña del diablo
Wexler
Un detective norteamericano es contratado por un millonario para que investigue un asesinato cometido en Ciudad del Cabo.
The River Line
Pierre, Maries Vater
France 1944: American pilot Philip Sturgess is shot down but found by a resistance group. In the neighborhood Sturgess meets another American and shortly thereafter the British Major Barton, called “Reiher”. He claims to have fled a German prison camp. Shortly before leaving for Spain to escape the Nazis, Sturgess discovers that Barton has written a letter to Germany. This confirms the suspicion that he could be a German spy…
Room 13
Sir Marney
A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again...
Der Mann nebenan
Director
Death Drums Along the River
Dr. Schneider
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.
The Twelve Jurors
Neunter Geschworener
German television adaptation of 12 Angry Men
Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard
Dr. Pohland / 'Dr. Mabuse'
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabuse then begins a new crime wave that terrorizes the city.
Cairo
Kuchuk
An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo museum. MGM remake of Asphalt Jungle set in Egypt.
Dumala
Director
Überfahrt
Thomson
Überfahrt
Director
Das lange Weihnachtsmahl
Director
El testamento del Dr. Mabuse
Professor Pohland
El director de un asilo para enfermos mentales es dominado por el malvado genio del Dr. Mabuse.
El maravilloso mundo de los hermanos Grimm
Priest
Biografía de los hermanos Grimm a través de la creación de su obra. Intercala escenificaciones de sus cuentos más célebres: "La princesa y el leñador", "El zapatero y los enanitos" y "El hueso cantor".
Kümmert euch nicht um Sokrates
Director
Unser Haus in Kamerun
Konsul Steensand
A young man living in Africa is send to Hamburg by his parents to learn about business. There, he falls in love with the mistress of a friend.
Riviera-Story
Nikanos
El Falsificador de Londres
John Leith
Un hábil falsificador de libras esterlinas tiene en jaque a la policía inglesa. Ajeno a ello, Peter Clifton, un joven millonario, se casa con Jane, sobrina de un célebre pintor, y la pareja inicia su vida común en la mansión de Longford Manor, cerca de Londres. Ambos parecen haber olvidado el desagradable incidente del día de la boda, cuando Basil Hale, un antiguo pretendiente de Jane, interrumpió la ceremonia. Pero extraños sucesos ocurren en la mansión: una noche Jane descubre a su marido junto a una prensa de imprimir, y cuando se hace de día Peter, amnésico, se despierta sin recordar nada de la noche, y en su habitación encuentra un martillo y una camisa con manchas de sangre. El misterio sigue en aumento.
Siegfrieds Tod
Director
Das Rendezvous von Senlis
Director
Caminos secretos
Jancsi
Poco después de la invasión soviética de Hungría en 1956, Michael Reynolds, un aventurero americano (Widmark), es contratado para sacar de Budapest al profesor Jancsi, el cerebro de la revuelta popular. Las autoridades comunistas persiguen a Reynolds, que tendrá que afrontar mil peligros para cumplir su misión.
Sueño de amor
Archbishop
Biografía del famoso pianista y compositor húngaro Franz Liszt (Dirk Bogarde). Charles Vidor falleció durante el rodaje y fue sustituido por George Cukor.
Der liebe Augustin
Baron von Gravenreuth
Entscheidung
Professor Antol Marton
She Walks by Night
Alexander Woltikoff, Geschäftsmann
Based on an actual post-war murder in Frankfurt, this standard docudrama by Rudolf Jugert is a serious treatment of the story as compared to the earlier, satirical film The Girl Rosemarie. The history of the case of Rosemarie, a hooker, and how she came to be strangled in her apartment is not completely clear. One of the suspects in the case was first charged, later acquitted, but never really free of an aura of culpability. British actress Belinda Lee plays the title role with her voice dubbed over in German.
For the First Time
Dr. Bessart
In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman.
...und nichts als die Wahrheit
Michael Fabian
Scampolo
Scampolo is a young, poor girl who lives on the island of Ischia. She falls in love with a young architect who hopes to win a design competition. Scampolo intecedes on his behalf with the minister and helps him to make his dream come true.
Examen des Lebens
Arthur Lamb
Confessions of Felix Krull
Lord Kilmarnock
Thomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel.
El monstruo del rayo gamma
Boronski
Un reportero descubre un doctor que expone a unos chicos a los rayos gamma, con la suposición que esto los convertirá en seres con una inteligencia superior. Lamentablemente los sujetos de experimentación se convierten en zombies asesinos.
Track the Man Down
Austin Melford
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.
The Green Buddha
Frank Olsen
Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a costly antique jade figure from an exhibit. He tracks the thieves to Battersea, where he rescues the fair Germaine from their unsavory clutches, and the Buddha boosters gain only jaded justice.
Estrella de la India
Von Horst
Estamos en la Francia del siglo XVIII, en la corte del Rey Sol; un aristócrata vuelve de la guerra y se encuentra con sus posesiones usurpadas por una bella viuda, que dice haberlas adquirido. Para recuperar su castillo, el noble habrá de recuperar para la hermosa hembra cierta valiosa joya.
Venetian Bird
Count Boria
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Shortly after arriving, he becomes the prime suspect in the murder of his local contact. In his quest to clear his name, Mercer uncovers a conspiracy. Even the local magistrate seems to be working against him, and Mercer begins to suspect the man he came to find is behind it all.
Behold the Man!
Director
Behold the Man is the film of the Westminster Passion play produced each Easter by Catholic youth organizations with an amateur and anonymous cast. For the first time in Great Britain the censor has permitted the portrayal of Jesus on the screen, to be seen but not heard, the entire film being mimed to narrative.
I'll Get You for This
Müller
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist, after she loses all of her money at the casino. Nick flees with Colleen after they are framed for murder and he tries to track down the real killer.
Secreto de Estado
General Niva
Un norteamericano (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) se da cuenta de que el monarca de un ignoto estado europeo ha sido reemplazado por un sosías.
Shadow of the Eagle
Prince Radziwill
During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.
My Daughter Joy
Andreas
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of an Arab sheik.
La salamandra de oro
Serafis
Un arquéologo se encuentra con una organización terrorista en un viaje a África.
Lisbon Story
Karl von Schriner
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an atomic scientist.
Mr. Emmanuel
Brockenburg
An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German refugee that has attempted suicide. In Germany, Mr. Emmanuel’s efforts to seek out Hertha Rosenhein are greeted by a wall of silence from the scared Jewish community and anti-Semitic hatred from many Germans.
Candlelight in Algeria
Dr. Muller
Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, Carla Lehmann and Raymond Lovell. This drama follows the exploits of Eisenhower's top aide, Mark Clark, and other important Allies as they journey to an important meeting held on Algeria's coast. The precise location of this vital secret gathering is upon a piece of film which must not fall into enemy hands
The Adventures of Tartu
Inspector Otto Vogel
British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his everyday job of defusing unexploded bombs. Fluent in Romanian and German and having studied chemical engineering, he is parachuted into Romania to assume the identity of Captain Jan Tartu, a member of the fascist Iron Guard. He makes his way to Czechoslovakia to steal the formula of a new Nazi poison gas and sabotage the factory where it is being manufactured.
At the Villa Rose
Mr. Ricardo
A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren't clever enough to ascertain the location of those gems, so they consult a phony spiritualist. Then they decide to dispose of the mystic by framing her for the murder.
Hell's Cargo
Cmndt. Lestailleur
Adventure film directed by Harold Huth.
Black Eyes
Roudine
Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future happiness, though Tania remains ignorant as to his vocation. Done with cool deliberation, Petrov's all-consuming fear is that one day his lovely daughter will discover his true profession, and despise him for it...
The Gang's All Here
Prince Homouska
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate, Prince Homouska, has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company. Aided by his butler, his Cockney assistant and his (initially) unwilling wife, Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves.
Sixty Glorious Years
Prinz Ernst
Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.
Hatred
Frazer
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...
Victoria the Great
Prince Ernest
The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with her marriage to Prince Albert and her subsequent rule after Albert's death in 1861.
Ein Lied klagt an
Detlef Ollmer - Bildhauer
Liebeserwachen
Robert Lund - Violinvirtuose
Lady Windermeres Fächer
Lord Windermere
Abdul the Damned
Hassan-Bey
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by the Young Turk party. He allows Hilmi Pasha, the leader of the Young Turks, to return from exile and form the country's first constitutional government. With tensions still growing, chief of police Kadar Pasha assassinates Hassan Bey, the leader of the Old Turk party, and makes it look as if a Young Turk committed the crime, in order to give Abdul an excuse for arresting the Young Turk leaders. Meanwhile, Abdul becomes infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer. When she rejects his advances, she endangers both herself and her fiancé, a Turkish officer who also knows who really shot Hassan Bey.
La pimpinela escarlata
Armand St. Just
Sir Percy Blakeney es un dandy miembro de la aristocracia inglesa, que en realidad oculta la identidad de La Pimpinela Escarlata, un héroe justiciero que combate las injusticias de la Revolución Francesa rescatando a sus víctimas de la guillotina y trasladándolas a un lugar seguro en Inglaterra. (FILMAFFINITY)
Der Springer von Pontresina
Peter Tonani, Geigenvirtuose
Der Jäger aus Kurpfalz
Baron Hans, sein Bruder, Buchhändler
Adventure on the Lido
Leonard
The already successful tenor Mattei is discovered after he already retired into private life. Der Wiener Staatsoper place a significant part in this musical comedy drama.
A Certain Mr. Gran
Pietro Broccardo
Un certain monsieur Grant
Mario Landi
Hände aus dem Dunkel
Direktor Leermann
Film by Waschneck.
The men around Lucie
Robert
24 hours of a woman's life
Sascha Lonay
After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In the luxurious surroundings of a hotel in Monte Carlo Mrs. Vanroh keeps apart from society, until one evening she decides to visit the casino. There a young man attracts her curiosity and compassion.
Frivolous youth
Lydia is a spoiled young woman who thinks she can get anything for money. One day she causes an accident in which a motorcyclist is killed. At the trial she meets prosecutor Dan O'Bannon. She is sentenced to prison for manslaughter.
Checkmate
Georg Holl
Shadows of the Arena
Morini. Kunstschütze
Artonis is an acrobat employed in the circus owned by Elvira Starke. Apparently he confines his acrobatics to the bedroom, because he's carrying on two separate affairs on the trot: one with his boss Elvira, and one with the circus's beautiful equestrienne Kitty Rallay. Someone shoots Artonis dead.
Two standards
Norman
Marriage in Name Only
Baron Hans v. Velten
a movie by Heinz Paul
The Great Longing
Himself
During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Maria Paudler and Luis Trenker are chatting. Eva von Loe a beautiful young extra rushes past; she is looking for her fiancé, Paul Wessel, who is also an extra. She has to return to the set where the famous director Regisseur Hall is shooting a scen. He is dissatisfied with his star, Carla Marventa, who is wrong for the scene he must photograph. Hall notices Eva, but laughs at her desire to replace Marventa. At that moment Conrad Veidt comes on the scene and assumes that Eva is the star.
Ehe in Not
The Sins of Love
The troubled situation of a provincial actor and his actress wife who come to the city. The actor is suspected of attacking another actor who admires the actress.
§ 173 St.G.B. Blutschande
Martin Hollmann, a young gardener meets his significantly older wife Hedwig's daughter from her first marriage, Liesbeth Kröger, on the deathbed. She is his generation and they both get along well straight away. Martin brings Liesbeth into his house as a housekeeper, and they both fall in love. The couple lives together and soon decides to get married when Liesbeth becomes pregnant by Martin. But now the tragedy begins, because when registering at the registry office, Martin and Liesbeth, in the form of a strict bailiff, are officially declared that they have committed incest in accordance with Section 173 of the Criminal Code.
Die fidele Herrenpartie
Heinz Rüdiger
Inherited Passions
Henry Bourtyne
Der Monte Christo von Prag
Fred Born
Der Mann mit dem Laubfrosch
Henri Vallencours
Der Raub der Sabinerinnen
Emil Groß
Una boda revolucionaria
Ernest
La acción tiene lugar en la década de 1790, durante la Revolución francesa. Alaine de l'Estelle y su camarera Leontine intentan escapar de París. Alaine es esperada por su prometido, Ernest de Tresailles, cerca del castillo de Trionville. Alaine y Leontine reciben una ayuda inesperada de Marc Aron, un teniente coronel del ejército revolucionario. Éste es un miembro de las tropas jacobinas que ocupan Trionville, justo después de la boda de Ernest y Alaine. (Eddie Constanti)
Art of Love
Eva in Seide
Dr. Erich Stiereß, Schriftsteller
Die Sache mit Schorrsiegel
Bernhard Benda
Die geheime Macht
Mirow
"The Secret Power" - Hardly anyone who strays into the emigrant's restaurant "Strange Bird" would suspect that the porter once was a general, the waiter a prince and the cook an admiral, and that the lady at the bar is actually the princess Sinaide forced was leaving their home.
Lady Juan
A Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933). In adulthood, Juana's upbringing causes complications in her love life. Possibly an early example of genderqueer representation.
Orientexpress
Allan Wilton
The Dangerous Age
Jörgen
The gorgeous 40-year-old Elsie Lindtner lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a respectable university professor. And yet, there’s something that nags her. She’s about to reach “the dangerous age”, when beauty begins to fade and boredom kicks in. She falls in love with a younger man and divorces her husband, but ends up hiding away in a country house where she can age in secret.
Die weiße Spinne
Lord Barrymore
Arme kleine Colombine
Ernst Honsel
Children's Souls Accuse You
Children's Souls Accuse You is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Albert Steinrück, Nathalie Lissenko and Walter Rilla. It was made with an anti-abortion theme.
Ehegeheimnisse
Die Sporck'schen Jäger
Leutnant von Naugard
Die Königin des Weltbades
Lord Arthur Blythe
Die Welt will belogen sein
Dr.Stone
Wie einst im Mai
Fred W. Kietz
Should We Be Silent?
Dr. Georg Mauthner
Impetuous Youth
Maler
Girl dressed up as a boy falls in love with a painter.
Cab No. 13
Lucien Rebout
The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.
Hoheit tanzt Walzer
Die da unten
Andre
Liebesfeuer
Harald von Bodenstein
The Blackguard
Michael Caviol
A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..
Die Puppe vom Lunapark
Leap Into Life
Frank
A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to return to her tightrope walker lover.
Las finanzas del Gran Duque
der Ehrgeizige
Cinta de intrigas 'palaciegas' ambientada en el diminuto ducado mediterráneo de Abacco.
Im Namen des Königs
Alles für Geld
Henry von Lauffen
Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude, uncouth and uneducated. His son, Fred, is the apple of his father's eye and is an auto enthusiast. The widowed Rupp falls in love with a former aristocrat, Helen, now down on her luck and pawning her last heirloom. He proposes marriage and she accepts in order to save her ailing mother who needs a monetary influx to avoid death. Her former boyfriend, Platen, warns Helen against Rupp's intentions - he and Rupp are enemies, Rupp having caused his being fired for protecting a chorus girl against Rupp's unwanted advances. Meanwhile, Graf, a shyster, arranges purchase of a near bankrupt auto manufacturing firm, Phoenix, to Rupp's great advantage with practically no monetary recognition to Graf, who swears revenge. Rupp comes upon his son begging Helen not to marry his father but to return to Platen.
Das schöne Mädel
Franz, Sohn der Götts
Hannele's Ascension
Todesengel
A young woman is abused or abandoned by the men in her life.