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He was born Adolf Wohlbruck in Vienna, Austria, descended from ten generations of circus clowns. He broke with tradition and, after studying with the director Max Reinhardt, built up a career in Austrian theatre and cinema.
In 1936 he went to Hollywood to reshoot dialogue for the multitnational The Soldier and the Lady (1937), in the process changing his name from Adolf to Anton. As a homosexual, his life in Austria was becoming intolerable under Nazi-rule. Instead of returning he settled in England, and continued as working as a cinema actor. High points include the dashing, intense German officer Theo Kretschmar-Schuldorff in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), the tyrannical impresario in The Red ShoesThis is an article about a film by Powell & Pressburger. For the album by Kate Bush see The Red Shoes''. The Red Shoes ( 1948) is a British film directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. The inventive, self-referential plot of this film tells the (1948) and the ringmaster in La RondeLa Ronde or Six Flags La Ronde is an amusement park in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. See: Six Flags La Ronde La Ronde is also the name of a commune in the Charente-Maritime departement in France. La Ronde is the title usually given to Arthur Schnitzler's 1897 (1950). One of his most unusal films is the 1948 Queen of Spades, an odd, gothic chiller in which he co-starred Edith EvansDame Edith Mary Evans ( February 8, 1888 October 14, 1976) was a British actress. Born in London, she began a film career in 1915, but was noted mostly for her stage work until she appeared in the 1949 film The Last Days of Dolwyn''. From then until 1977,.
Walbrook was often a loner on set, wearing dark glasses and eating alone. His career stopped suddenly and mysteriously at the end of the 1950sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s Years: 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 Events and trends Technology United States tests the first fusion bomb., and he did not work again. He died of heart attackplaque builds up in the walls of blood vessels. Acute myocardial infarction AMI or MI , commonly known as heart attack is a serious, sudden heart condition characterized by varying degrees of chest pain, weakness, sweating, nausea, and vomiting, sometimes in Garatshausen, GermanyThe Federal Republic of Germany ( German: Bundesrepublik Deutschland is one of the world's leading industrialized countries, located in the middle of the European Union. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark and the Baltic Sea, to the east.