Walter Rilla

Born: 1894-08-22

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.


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Day of Anger

as Murph Allan Short
Released: 1967-12-19

A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for...

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The Scarlet Pimpernel

as Armand St. Just
Released: 1934-12-20

18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely...

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The Face of Fu Manchu

as Prof. Hans Muller-Mertens
Released: 1965-08-06

Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that...

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The Girl from Rio

as Ennio Rossini
Released: 1969-03-14

Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take...

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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm

as Priest
Released: 1962-08-07

The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century,...

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The Secret Ways

as Jancsi
Released: 1961-04-01

Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael...

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The Gamma People

as Boronski
Released: 1956-12-01

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the...

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Room 13

as Sir Marney
Released: 1964-02-20

A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the...

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Candlelight in Algeria

as Dr. Muller
Released: 1944-03-19

Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James...

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Confessions of Felix Krull

as Lord Kilmarnock
Released: 1957-04-24

Thomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel.

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State Secret

as General Niva
Released: 1950-09-11

Visiting in England, an American surgeon Doctor John Marlowe is decoyed to a middle European...

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Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included

as John M. Clark
Released: 1966-08-24

An elaborate bank robbery takes place and the gangsters succeed although the FBI had been...

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The Terror of Doctor Mabuse

as Professor Pohland
Released: 1962-09-06

Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring...

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Golden Salamander

as Serafis
Released: 1950-02-01

An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set...

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Malpertuis

as Eisengott
Released: 1971-01-02

Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where...

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The Devil Came from Akasava

as Lord Kingsley
Released: 1971-03-05

A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is...

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For the First Time

as Dr. Bessart
Released: 1959-02-26

In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman.

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Dr. Mabuse vs. Scotland Yard

as Dr. Pohland / 'Dr. Mabuse'
Released: 1963-09-20

The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr....

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Sixty Glorious Years

as Prinz Ernst
Released: 1938-11-18

Continuing the story of 'Victoria the Great'.

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Frozen Alive

as Sir Keith
Released: 1964-12-01

A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject....

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The Forger of London

as John Leith
Released: 1961-08-15

A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a...

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Lady Juan

as uncredited
Released: 1928-01-24

A Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen...

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The Adventures of Tartu

as Inspector Otto Vogel
Released: 1943-10-01

British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than...

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The Finances of the Grand Duke

as der Ehrgeizige
Released: 1924-01-07

The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to...

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Star of India

as Von Horst
Released: 1954-01-02

Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find...

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Song Without End

as Archbishop
Released: 1960-08-11

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to...

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Death Drums Along the River

as Dr. Schneider
Released: 1963-12-20

A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river.

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Victoria the Great

as Prince Ernest
Released: 1937-09-01

The film biography of Queen Victoria focussing initially on the early years of her reign with...

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Code 7, Victim 5

as Wexler
Released: 1964-07-10

The first victim is the butler of South African millionaire Wexler, who hires hard-hitting...

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Cairo

as Kuchuk
Released: 1963-07-17

An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a...

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Pepe, der Paukerschreck

as Ministerialdirektor Reichert
Released: 1969-06-26

Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft secretly places his nephew as a spy with the difficult class of...

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Scampolo

as uncredited
Released: 1958-02-26

Scampolo is a young, poor girl who lives on the island of Ischia. She falls in love with a young...

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Track the Man Down

as Austin Melford
Released: 1955-06-06

A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.

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The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

as Prof. Pohland
Released: 1964-09-17

The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world.

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Once a Greek

as State Preisent
Released: 1966-09-16

An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.

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The Twelve Jurors

as Neunter Geschworener
Released: 1963-10-25

Did an 18-year-old immigrant from the slums murder his father in cold blood? The twelve jurors...

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Leap Into Life

as Frank
Released: 1924-04-01

A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a...

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Venetian Bird

as Count Boria
Released: 1952-10-01

Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war....

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Black Eyes

as Roudine
Released: 1939-04-08

Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania....

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Riviera-Story

as Nikanos
Released: 1961-12-07

Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at...

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The Blackguard

as Michael Caviol
Released: 1925-09-04

A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution..

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Der Fall Klaus Fuchs

as Professor Paiser
Released: 1965-05-03

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Unser Haus in Kamerun

as Konsul Steensand
Released: 1961-12-21

A young man living in Africa is send to Hamburg by his parents to learn about business. There,...

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Detective

as Krüger
Released: 1969-05-22

Andy and Sebastian want to make a lot of money in a quick and easy way. Inspired by the movies,...

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My Daughter Joy

as Andreas
Released: 1950-08-21

A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son...

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Soldier Martin

as Général von Haffelrats
Released: 1966-09-28

A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.

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Millionen nach Mass

as Sir Charles
Released: 1970-11-27

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The Gang's All Here

as Prince Homouska
Released: 1939-03-04

John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns...

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Hatred

as Frazer
Released: 1938-01-26

Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an...

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The Last Night

as Ernest
Released: 1928-10-11

The fate of a French aristocrat is revealed in this historical costume drama, who, in 1792,...

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She Walks by Night

as Alexander Woltikoff, Geschäftsmann
Released: 1959-10-22

Based on an actual post-war murder in Frankfurt, this standard docudrama by Rudolf Jugert is a...

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I'll Get You for This

as Müller
Released: 1951-01-01

Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American...

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Incest

as Martin Hollman
Released: 1929-10-16

Martin Hollmann, a young gardener meets his significantly older wife's daughter from her first...

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The Racetrack Murders

as Lord John Mant
Released: 1964-11-07

The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's...

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Ehe in Not

as uncredited
Released: 1929-12-06

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Ein Lied klagt an

as Detlef Ollmer - Bildhauer
Released: 1936-08-27

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The Great Longing

as Himself
Released: 1930-08-24

During lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow,...

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Shadow of the Eagle

as Prince Radziwill
Released: 1950-09-11

During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the...

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Art of Love

as uncredited
Released: 1928-09-05

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Impetuous Youth

as Maler
Released: 1926-03-10

Girl dressed up as a boy falls in love with a painter.

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Abdul the Damned

as Hassan-Bey
Released: 1935-08-05

In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt...

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A Certain Mr. Gran

as Pietro Broccardo
Released: 1933-08-15

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Waffen für Amerika

as Maurepas
Released: 1976-06-29

Based on the play by Lion Feuchtwanger.

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24 Hours in a Woman's Life

as Dr. Emerich
Released: 1965-04-21

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The men around Lucie

as Robert
Released: 1931-11-03

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Arme kleine Colombine

as Ernst Honsel
Released: 1927-04-06

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All for Money

as Henry von Lauffen
Released: 1923-11-04

Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the...

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...und nichts als die Wahrheit

as Michael Fabian
Released: 1958-08-07

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Lisbon Story

as Karl von Schriner
Released: 1946-05-20

A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save...

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The Green Buddha

as Frank Olsen
Released: 1954-11-01

Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have...

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The River Line

as Pierre, Maries Vater
Released: 1964-03-26

France 1944: American pilot Philip Sturgess is shot down but found by a resistance group. In the...

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Mr. Emmanuel

as Brockenburg
Released: 1944-08-02

An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young...

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Die Puppe vom Lunapark

as uncredited
Released: 1925-07-07

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Fires of Love

as Harald von Bodenstein
Released: 1925-11-11

In a small town, the dancer Inge Maria Torselli is very popular with the theater audience. Her...

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Lady Windermeres Fächer

as Lord Windermere
Released: 1935-10-24

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4 Schlüssel

as Eduard Rose
Released: 1966-01-14

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Komm' zu mir zum Rendezvous

as Armand
Released: 1930-08-29

A musical-comedy directed by Carl Boese

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24 Hours of a Woman's Life

as Sascha Lonay
Released: 1931-10-11

After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels...

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Orientexpress

as Allan Wilton
Released: 1927-12-01

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Die weiße Spinne

as Lord Barrymore
Released: 1927-10-26

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Cab No. 13

as Lucien Rebout
Released: 1926-03-06

The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter...

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At the Villa Rose

as Mr. Ricardo
Released: 1940-03-02

A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves...

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Hände aus dem Dunkel

as Direktor Leermann
Released: 1933-04-24

Film by Waschneck.

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Die geheime Macht

as Mirow
Released: 1928-03-19

"The Secret Power" - Hardly anyone who strays into the emigrant's restaurant "Strange Bird"...

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Should We Be Silent?

as Dr. Georg Mauthner
Released: 1926-04-05

A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use...

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Inherited Passions

as Henry Bourtyne
Released: 1929-05-03

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The Dangerous Age

as Jörgen
Released: 1927-11-17

The gorgeous 40-year-old Elsie Lindtner lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a...

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Die fidele Herrenpartie

as Heinz Rüdiger
Released: 1929-09-30

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Adventure on the Lido

as Leonard
Released: 1933-10-26

The already successful tenor Mattei is discovered after he already retired into private life....

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Frivolous youth

as uncredited
Released: 1931-07-18

Lydia is a spoiled young woman who thinks she can get anything for money. One day she causes an...

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Eva in Seide

as Dr. Erich Stiereß, Schriftsteller
Released: 1928-08-13

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Der Kommissar

as Ulrich de Croy
First aired: 1969-01-03

Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide...

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Interpol Calling

as The Baron
First aired: 1959-09-13

The adventures of Interpol policemen Duval and Mornay as they fought against international...

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The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel

as The Father Guardian
First aired: 1955-09-28

The second collection of short stories written by Baroness Orczy about the gallant English hero,...

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Les Faucheurs de marguerites

as Zeppelin
First aired: 1974-05-27

Les Faucheurs de marguerites is a French-Canadian-German television series.

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Millionen nach Maß

as Sir Charles
First aired: 1970-11-27

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