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Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück (19 November 1896 – 9 August 1967) was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom under the name Anton Walbrook. A popular performer in Austria and pre-war Germany, he left in 1936 out of concerns for his own safety and established a career in British cinema.
Anton Walbrook. Actor: The Red Shoes. This dark, debonair, dashing and extremely distinguished Austrian actor was christened Adolf Wohlbrück in Vienna, the scion of a family of circus clowns. He broke away easily from generations of tradition as the circus life had no appeal whatsoever to Walbrook.
Anton Walbrook. Actor: The Red Shoes. This dark, debonair, dashing and extremely distinguished Austrian actor was christened Adolf Wohlbrück in Vienna, the scion of a family of circus clowns. He broke away easily from generations of tradition as the circus life had no appeal whatsoever to Walbrook.
Jan 29, 2014 · Diana Wynyard plays Bella Mallen, newly married to Paul (Walbrook), happy and carefree until she moves into an old house with a history of murder. Then she slowly starts to lose her mind. The ...
Anton Walbrook: Uncovering a Life of Masks and Mirrors by James Downs. 18 May 2021, 1:46 p.m. Visitors to the Bill Douglas Cinema Museum may remember the exhibition ‘Anton Walbrook – Star and Enigma’ which was held here in 2013.
Jul 31, 2022 · Facts are facts, and for his biography of the Austrian-born stage, screen and eventually television actor Anton Walbrook, James Downs has amassed, cross-referenced and marshalled a remarkable number of them into a detailed chronicle of his career.
Suave, highly polished and intense performer who broke with ten generations of his family's circus tradition to make his mark on the Austrian and German stage. Walbrook entered German film in the early 1920s and emerged as a star a decade later, billed as Adolf Wohlbruck.
Anton Walbrook was a legendary actor who graced the screens of Europe from the 1920s to the 1960s. Born in Austria-Hungary (modern-day Romania) in 1896, Walbrook began his acting career in Vienna before moving to Berlin in the early 1920s.
Jun 6, 2023 · Anton Walbrook, a renowned actor of Austrian descent, started his career in the film industry in Germany during the 1920s. He made his film debut in 1924 in the silent film “Seine Frau, die Unbekannte” and went on to appear in more than 50 German films over the next decade.
Anton Walbrook's screen acting combined melancholic irony and old-worldly charm, chilling arrogance and tragic pathos. A dark, handsome and suave dandy, Walbrook (born Adolf Wohlbrück) was a romantic lead in German films before emigrating in 1936.
