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Missing image Archers-Blimp-Duel-AntonWalbrook.jpg Anton Walbrook as Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff, in the duel scene from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp. Anton Walbrook (November 19, 1896 - August 9, 1967) was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom.
LifeHe was born Adolf Wohlbruck in Vienna, Austria, descended from ten generations of circus clowns. He broke with tradition and, after studying with the director Max Reinhardt, built up a career in Austrian theatre and cinema. In 1936 he went to Hollywood to reshoot dialogue for the multitnational The Soldier and the Lady (1937), in the process changing his name from Adolf to Anton. As a homosexual, his life in Austria was becoming intolerable under Nazi rule. Instead of returning he settled in England, and continued as working as a cinema actor. High points include the dashing, intense German officer Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), the tyrannical impresario in The Red Shoes (1948) and the ringmaster in La Ronde (1950). One of his most unusal films is the 1948 Queen of Spades, an odd, gothic chiller in which he co-starred with Edith Evans. Walbrook was a loner on set, often wearing dark glasses and eating alone. His career stopped suddenly and mysteriously at the end of the 1950s, and he did not work again. He died of a heart attack in Garatshausen, Germany in 1967. Selected filmsIn Austria
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