Anton Walbrook
Actor

Anton Walbrook Net Worth

Anton Walbrook was a distinguished Austrian actor born into a family of circus clowns. He trained under Max Reinhardt and went on to appear in a number of romantic films in the 1930s. He moved to Great Britain in the late 1930s and starred in a variety of English language films, playing a range of characters from kings to bon vivants. His most notable roles include The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), 49th Parallel (1941), Victoria the Great (1937) and The Red Shoes (1948). He retired from films in the late 1950s and went on to appear in European stage and television roles before his death in 1967.
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Age, Biography and Wiki

Who is it? Actor, Soundtrack
Birth Day November 19, 1896
Age 123 YEARS OLD
Died On 9 August 1967(1967-08-09) (aged 70)\nStarnberger See, Bavaria, Germany
Birth Sign Sagittarius
Cause of death heart attack
Occupation Actor
Years active 1915–1966

💰 Net worth: $600,000 (2024)

Anton Walbrook, a renowned actor and soundtrack artist, was born in 1896. Throughout his career, he showcased his incredible talent on both the big screen and stage, earning him immense recognition and success. As of 2024, his net worth is estimated to be an impressive $600,000. Walbrook's dedication to his craft and his ability to captivate audiences with his performances have undoubtedly contributed to his financial accomplishments. Despite his passing, his legacy lives on, inspiring future generations in the world of acting and music.

Biography/Timeline

1936

In 1936, he went to Hollywood to reshoot dialogue for the multinational The Soldier and the Lady (1937) and in the process changed his name from Adolf to Anton. Instead of returning to Austria, Walbrook, who was gay and Classified under the Nuremberg Laws as "half-Jewish" (his mother was Jewish), settled in England and continued working as a film actor, making a speciality of playing continental Europeans.

1937

Producer-director Herbert Wilcox cast him as Prince Albert in Victoria the Great (1937) and Walbrook also appeared in the sequel, Sixty Glorious Years the following year. He was in Director Thorold Dickinson's version of Gaslight (1940), in the role played by Charles Boyer in the later Hollywood remake. In Dangerous Moonlight (1941), a romantic melodrama, he was a Polish Pianist torn over whether to return home. For the Powell and Pressburger team in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) he played the role of the dashing, intense "good German" officer Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff, and the tyrannical impresario Lermontov in The Red Shoes (1948). One of his most unusual films, reuniting him with Dickinson, is The Queen of Spades (1949), a Gothic thriller based on the Alexander Pushkin short story, in which he co-starred with Edith Evans. For Max Ophüls he was the ringmaster in La Ronde (1950) and Ludwig I, King of Bavaria in Lola Montès.

1950

He retired from films at the end of the 1950s and in later years appeared on the European stage and television.

1967

Walbrook died of a heart attack in Garatshausen, Bavaria, Germany in 1967. His ashes were interred in the churchyard of St. John's Church, Hampstead, London, as he had wished in his testament.

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