Name Wilfred Walter Parents Richard Walter | Role Film actor | |
Years active 1935–56 (in films) 1918-50 (theatre) Movies The Dark Eyes of London, Owd Bob, Hearts of Humanity People also search for Walter Summers, Robert Stevenson, John Baxter | ||
Wilfred Walter (2 March 1882 in Ripon, West Riding of Yorkshire – 9 July 1958 in Ashtead, Surrey) was an English film and theatre actor. He was born Franz Wilfrid Walter, son of the actor Richard Walter.
He was a Shakespearian actor during the first half of the 20th century, playing at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon and the Old Vic, where his major roles included Mark Antony, Falstaff, Othello, Bottom and Titus Andronicus.
His best known film role was as Max Slessor the eponymous inmate in the 1938 comedy Convict 99, who is mistaken for the prison governor Benjamin Twist (Will Hay). Walter also acted as the monstrous lumbering brute Jake, Dr Orloff's (Bela Lugosi) assistant in the 1939 film adaption of the Edgar Wallace thriller The Dark Eyes of London.