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Actor. Years active. 1915–1966. 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.
Jun 25, 2021 · James Downs, University of Exeter. 25 June 2021. Research for my biography of the actor Anton Walbrook ( Anton Walbrook: a Life of Masks and Mirrors, published by Peter Lang in December 2020), took over ten years and made extensive use of archival sources. While this is not unusual, the notion of writing Walbrook’s biography itself came from ...
Jan 29, 2014 · Features. Remembering Anton Walbrook. Aliya recounts five of the best performances from the wonderful Anton Walbrook... By Aliya Whiteley | January 29, 2014 | | 0. Was there ever a better...
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. Curated by James Downs, then a volunteer at the BDC, this exhibition on the charismatic star of German cinema in the 1930s and British Cinema in the 1940s, included items from the ...
Jun 16, 2023 · Anton Walbrook is sympathetic as Wynne-Candy's German friend Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff (Credit: Alamy) This decline is thrown into yet sharper relief by Candy’s friendship with Prussian...
Anton Walbrook (1896-1967) Anton Walbrook. 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.
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Downs shows, with admirable precision, the gradual stifling of that radical culture by the Nazis, and the extreme vulnerability of those who, like Walbrook, were homosexual and had Jewish blood. Walbrook was rather late in becoming an émigré, and Downs lays out the reasons for this.
