Anton Walbrook
(1900-1967), ActorAnton Walbrook (Adolf Wohlbruck)
Sitter in 8 portraits
Anton Walbrook was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom. He was born Adolf Wohlbruck in Vienna, and was descended from ten generations of actors. Walbrook studied with the director Max Reinhardt and built up a career in Austrian theatre and cinema. In 1936 he went to Hollywood to reshoot dialogue for the multinational The Soldier and the Lady (1937), in the process changing his name from Adolf to Anton. He settled in England, and continued as working as a cinema actor. He is best remembered for his roles as 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).
Anton Walbrook; Diana Wynyard; Rex Harrison
by Angus McBean
bromide print, 1939
NPG P929
Anton Walbrook as Michael Strogoff in 'The Czar's Courier'
by JDA, Riga
bromide postcard print, 1936
NPG x139950
Freddie Young; Herbert Wilcox; Anton Walbrook as Prince Albert; Anna Neagle as Queen Victoria
by Fred Daniels
cream-toned vintage bromide print, 1937
NPG x32925
Anton Walbrook; Diana Wynyard; Rex Harrison
by Angus McBean
vintage bromide print, 1939
NPG Ax183854
Rex Harrison; Diana Wynyard; Anton Walbrook
by Angus McBean
vintage print, 1939
NPG x194340
Diners at Denham Studios Restaurant
by Anthony Wysard
watercolour and pencil, published 1937
NPG D312
by Cannons of Hollywood (George Frederic Cannons)
bromide print, 1948
NPG x34573
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