Walter Rilla

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

19 titles
1
Day of Anger

Day of Anger

1967 · 1h 51m · Movie

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.

7.0
2
The Scarlet Pimpernel

The Scarlet Pimpernel

1934 · 1h 37m · Movie

A noblewoman discovers her husband is The Scarlet Pimpernel, a vigilante who rescues aristocrats from the blade of the guillotine.

7.3
3
The Face of Fu Manchu

The Face of Fu Manchu

1965 · 1h 29m · Movie

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.

5.8
4
The Legend of Doom House

The Legend of Doom House

1972 · 2h 5m · Movie

A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with a number of eccentric and mysterious relatives who all seem to be harboring a dark secret.

6.7
5
The Girl from Rio

The Girl from Rio

1969 · 1h 34m · Movie

Having established Femina, a secret city populated entirely by beautiful women, Sumuru plots to wage a war against all men.

4.2
6
Finances of the Grand Duke

Finances of the Grand Duke

1924 · 1h 20m · Movie

The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess o...

6.2
7
The Gamma People

The Gamma People

1956 · 1h 16m · Movie

An American reporter smells a story when he is stranded in an Iron Curtain country where the local dictator is using gamma rays to transform children into mutated henchmen.

5.3
8
The Great Manhunt

The Great Manhunt

1950 · 1h 37m · Movie

In post-WW2 Europe, when the dictator of a small police state dies during surgery, the operating surgeon, who's a visiting American doctor, is held captive in order to preserve the terrible state secret.

7.0
9
The Terror of Doctor Mabuse

The Terror of Doctor Mabuse

1962 · 1h 28m · Movie

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.

5.9
10
Room 13

Room 13

1964 · 1h 22m · Movie

A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again...

6.0
11
The Secret Ways

The Secret Ways

1961 · 1h 52m · Movie

During the 1956 Hungarian uprising, an American mercenary is hired to smuggle a Hungarian resistance leader out of Soviet-occupied Budapest.

6.2
12
The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

The Death Ray of Dr. Mabuse

1964 · 1h 30m · Movie

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.

4.8
13
Code 7, Victim 5

Code 7, Victim 5

1964 · 1h 29m · Movie

After a millionaire's valet is murdered, he hires a detective to uncover by whom and why his man was killed.

5.3
14
For the First Time

For the First Time

1959 · 1h 32m · Movie

An opera singer with a bad attitude falls in love with a deaf girl who changes his life.

6.4
15
The Racetrack Murders

The Racetrack Murders

1964 · 1h 33m · Movie

A thoroughbred is highly favored to win an important upcoming race, and several people connected to the horse begin to fall victim to a mysterious assailant. Meanwhile, an equine veterinarian is blackmailed to compromise the horse.

6.0
16
Victoria the Great

Victoria the Great

1937 · 1h 52m · Movie

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...

6.3
17
Track the Man Down

Track the Man Down

1955 · 1h 15m · Movie

A newspaper reporter finds himself drawn into the aftermath of a racetrack robbery.

6.2
18
Queen of Destiny

Queen of Destiny

1938 · 1h 35m · Movie

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...

6.4
19
Shadow of the Eagle

Shadow of the Eagle

1950 · 1h 33m · Movie

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 ...

6.1