Walter Rilla
Birthday: 1894-08-22
Place of Birth: Neunkirchen, Germany
Biography: 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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The Face of Fu Manchu
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendis...
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The Racetrack Murders
The son of a British racehorse owner conspires with a bookie to ruin the odds of his father's thorou...
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Jerry Cotton: Tip Not Included
An elaborate bank robbery takes place and the gangsters succeed although the FBI had been warned. Je...
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She Walks by Night
Based on an actual murder case in Frankfurt after the war, the film tells the story of the murder of...
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Pepe, der Paukerschreck
Mommsen Gymnasium director Taft secretly places his nephew as a spy with the difficult class of Pepe...
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The Devil Came from Akasava
A mineral is discovered which can turn metal to gold or humans into zombies. When the mineral is sto...
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The Forger of London
A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealth...
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Code 7, Victim 5
The first victim is the butler of South African millionaire Wexler, who hires hard-hitting private e...
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The Girl from Rio
Sumuru, the beautiful leader of the all-female kingdom of Femina, plans to use her women to take ove...
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The Gamma People
An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local d...
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The Secret Ways
Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Michael Reynolds i...
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Malpertuis
A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with ...
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The Green Buddha
Yankee charter pilot Morris inadvertently finds himself in the midst of thieves who have purloined a...
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Room 13
A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer bu...
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The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
The evil Dr. Mabuse develops a death ray with which he threatens the world....
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The Adventures of Tartu
British Captain Terence Stevenson (Robert Donat) accepts an assignment even more dangerous than his ...
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The Gang's All Here
John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that ...
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Day of Anger
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of famed gunfighter Talby, and the stage for confrontation i...
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Venetian Bird
Private eye Edward Mercer travels to Venice to locate a man due a reward for his aid in the war. Sho...
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Death Drums Along the River
A British colonial policeman in Africa investigates a murder in a hospital up river....
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A Certain Mr. Gran
An Italian engineer who had made a strategically important invention to ward off enemy aircraft is k...
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Golden Salamander
An archaeologist stumbles into the territory of an evil crime syndicate and struggles to set things ...
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Song Without End
The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to aban...
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Soldier Martin
A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII....
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Frozen Alive
A scientist experimenting with suspended animation decides to use himself as a test subject. Before ...
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My Daughter Joy
A financier plots to become the richest man in the world by marrying off his daughter to the son of ...
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I'll Get You for This
Nick, an American gambler, arrives in San Paolo and falls in love with Colleen, an American tourist,...
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Candlelight in Algeria
Candlelight in Algeria is a 1944 British war film directed by George King and starring James Mason, ...
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For the First Time
In this musical, a tempermental opera singer falls in love with a hearing-impaired young woman....
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Track the Man Down
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery....
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The River Line
France 1944: American pilot Philip Sturgess is shot down but found by a resistance group. In the nei...
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Mr. Emmanuel
An elderly Jewish man from Manchester, travels to Nazi Germany to seek the mother of a young German ...
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All for Money
Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the rever...
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4 Schlüssel
Bank director Ernst Rose, owner of the Hamburg bank Traven & Co., is asked to go to the airport earl...
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24 Hours of a Woman's Life
After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restl...
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Confessions of Felix Krull
Thomas Mann's witty and intimate story of a irresistible scoundrel....
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Unser Haus in Kamerun
A young man living in Africa is send to Hamburg by his parents to learn about business. There, he f...
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have...
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Dr. Mabuse has been locked away for years in an insane asylum. Suddenly crimes start occurring and n...
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Should We Be Silent?
A melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use inste...
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The Last Night
The fate of a French aristocrat is revealed in this historical costume drama, who, in 1792, finds he...
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Adventure on the Lido
The already successful tenor Mattei is discovered after he already retired into private life. Der Wi...
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Detective
Andy and Sebastian want to make a lot of money in a quick and easy way. Inspired by the movies, they...
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Frivolous youth
Lydia is a spoiled young woman who thinks she can get anything for money. One day she causes an acci...
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Abdul the Damned
In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid rules the Turkish Empire, but he is faced with the threat of revolt by t...
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...und nichts als die Wahrheit
Dr. Stefan Donat, a doctor from Frankfurt, unexpectedly becomes the sole heir to his wife Agnes' est...
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Cab No. 13
The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in t...
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Hatred
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful...
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The Great Passion
This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a stor...
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Victoria the Great
The film biography of Queen Victoria focusing initially on the early years of her reign with her mar...
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Der Springer von Pontresina
Pontresina, Switzerland, at the beginning of the 20th century. A ski jumping competition is about to...
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The Blackguard
A French violinist saves his beloved princess from the Russian revolution.....
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Black Eyes
Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fa...
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Riviera-Story
Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their b...
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The Finances of the Grand Duke
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service...
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Children's Souls Accuse You
Children's Souls Accuse You is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and star...
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Star of India
Squire Pierre St. Laurent returns from wars in India to 17th-century provincial France to find his e...
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Cairo
An assortment of international criminals plans to steal priceless Egyptian artifacts from a Cairo mu...
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The Twelve Jurors
Did an 18-year-old immigrant from the slums murder his father in cold blood? The twelve jurors must ...
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At the Villa Rose
A gang of clever thieves kill a wealthy woman in hopes of stealing her gems. But the thieves aren't ...
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Shadows of the Arena
Artonis is an acrobat employed in the circus owned by Elvira Starke. Apparently he confines his acro...
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Scampolo
Scampolo is a young, poor girl who lives on the island of Ischia. She falls in love with a young arc...
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Scotland Yard Hunts Dr. Mabuse
The spirit of the evil Dr. Mabuse takes over the body of a famous professor. The professor/Dr. Mabus...
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Shadow of the Eagle
During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the thro...
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Die fidele Herrenpartie
Gentlemen Among Themselves (German: Die fidele Herrenpartie or Herren unter sich) is a 1929 German s...
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The Dangerous Age
The gorgeous 40-year-old Elsie Lindtner lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a respectable ...
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Fires of Love
In a small town, the dancer Inge Maria Torselli is very popular with the theater audience. Her fathe...
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Leap Into Life
A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady ...
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State Secret
While working in England, an American surgeon Dr. John Marlowe is invited to Vosnia (a fictitious Ea...
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Die geheime Macht
"The Secret Power" - Hardly anyone who strays into the emigrant's restaurant "Strange Bird" would su...
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Lisbon Story
A musical cabaret singer meets a British agent and goes with him to Nazi occupied France to save an ...
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The Scarlet Pimpernel
18th century English aristocrat Sir Percy Blakeney leads a double life. He appears to be merely the ...
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Incest
Martin Hollmann, a young gardener meets his significantly older wife's daughter from her first marri...
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Lady Juan
A Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1...
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The Sins of Love
The troubled situation of a provincial actor and his actress wife who come to the city. The actor is...
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Nachtzug D 106
'Please help me!' the young GDR refugee begs the passengers of the interzonal train 'D 106'. He has ...
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Desperate Moment
Story of a Dutchman's flight across post-war Germany trying to locate the man who alone can clear hi...
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Honour Thy Mother
German produced silent drama made by the German subsidiary of First National Pictures with sets desi...
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