Walter Rilla
August 22, 1894
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.
Known For
10 titles
Day of Anger
A scruffy garbage boy becomes the pupil of a famed gunfighter, and the stage for confrontation is set when the gunman overruns the boy's town through violence and corruption.
The Face of Fu Manchu
After cheating death, master criminal Dr. Fu Manchu returns with a plot to contaminate the River Thames with a powerful toxin extracted from Tibetan poppies.
The Girl from Rio
Having established Femina, a secret city populated entirely by beautiful women, Sumuru plots to wage a war against all men.
The Terror of Doctor Mabuse
German Police Inspector Lohmann investigates a string of crimes resembling Dr. Mabuse's M.O. but Mabuse is in Professor Polland's care inside an insane asylum.
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse
British Secret Service agent Major Anders is dispatched to Malta to investigate Professor Larsen, who has invented a powerful weapon of mass-destruction, a death ray machine on his island.
For the First Time
An opera singer with a bad attitude falls in love with a deaf girl who changes his life.
Victoria the Great
The story of an 18-year-old princess who becomes Queen of England. It chronicles six decades of her reign during a period of immense change and her marriage to a prince who would become her treasured source of stability and affect...
Track the Man Down
A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.
Queen of Destiny
Picking up where Victoria the Great (1937) left off, this sequel has Anna Neagle return to the role of Queen Victoria in another colorful account of the revered British monarch's reign. This film offers a stellar chronicle of Vict...
Shadow of the Eagle
Count Orlof, one of Catherine of Russia's many overnight favourites, travels to Venice on her behalf to abduct Elizabeth Tarakanova who has been laying claim to the throne from the Crimea. Once there, he finds the local charms of ...