Walther Suessenguth

Walther Suessenguth

Born: February 8, 1900
Died: April 28, 1964
in Schleiz, Thuringia, Germany
Walther Suessenguth, also Walther Süssenguth or Walter Suessenguth; actually Walther Wilhelm Rudolf Suessenguth (born February 8, 1900 in Schleiz, Thuringia, † April 28, 1964 in Berlin) was a German actor and voice actor.

The son of a theater director had received his artistic training at the end of the First World War at the Dresden Conservatory and in 1919 his first engagement at the Reuss Theater in Gera. Other stage stations were Plauen, Lübeck, Königsberg, Erfurt, Halberstadt, Hannover, Oldenburg, Frankfurt / M., Again Gera, again Königsberg and Hamburg. Since 1935 he stayed in Berlin to fulfill a commitment to the theater of youth. This was followed by appearances on metropolitan stages such as the Schiller Theater, the Hebbel Theater and the Volksbühne Berlin, interrupted only by a season at the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg 1936/37. Suessenguth had made a name for himself as an interpreter in modern plays (by authors such as Zuckmayer, Sartre and Werfel), for example in The Bride of Messina, The River, Sinner and Saint, The Flies, The Ballad of the Eulenspiegel, Barbara Blomberg, Undine and Jakobowsky and the colonel. In his later years Suessenguth acted increasingly as a director. His most famous productions included Bahr's Das Konzert, Frank Wedekind's Spring Awakening and Hermann Sudermann's The Butterfly Battle.

Suessenguth had made his film debut in the 1934 premiere Storm adaptation The Schimmelreiter, in which he played alongside Mathias Wieman and Marianne Hoppe the role of the jealous groom Ole Peters. Until the end of the Second World War, he was seen with small roles in twelve other films, such as Zar Alexander in Wolfgang Liebeneiner Bismarck film The Dismissal.

Since 1948 Suessenguth was mainly active as a voice actor, where he cast his votes among others Lon Chaney, Maurice Chevalier, Barry Kelley, Herbert Marshall, John McIntire, Victor McLaglen, Reginald Owen, George Sanders, Spencer Tracy, Tom Tully, Charles Vanel, Orson Welles and Chill Wills lent.

In the mid-1950s, Suessenguth reappeared in several films himself. Larger roles he had in about The city is full of secrets (1954), Tsar and carpenter and cheated to the recent day. In his last years, he occasionally participated in television productions, such as in Peter Beauvais' television movie The Little Foxes and in the street sweeper Tim Frazer by Francis Durbridge, in which he embodied the painter and crook Walters.

Walther Suessenguth was buried in the cemetery Wilmersdorf in the Dept. E5-UW-217.

His brother is the actor Richard Süssenguth.

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Movies for Walther Suessenguth...

Die kleinen Füchse
Title: Die kleinen Füchse
Character: Ben Hubbard
Released: February 13, 1962
Type: Movie
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Die Herberge
Title: Die Herberge
Character: Berullis
Released: September 27, 1957
Type: Movie
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Duped Till Doomsday
Title: Duped Till Doomsday
Character: captain von der Saale
Released: March 7, 1957
Type: Movie
East Germany's contribution to the 1957 Cannes Film Festival was the wartime melodrama Betrogen bis zum Juengsten Tag. Had the film been released in the U.S., the title would probably have translated to Duped Till the Last. The film condemns the Nazi mindset by concentrating on a particularly odious cover-up. When his son is involved in the accidental killing of a girl, a Gestapo general pulls strings to save the boy from prosecution. The general manages to pin the blame for the killing on a group of Russians, whereupon he gives the men under his command carte blanche to round up and execute as many innocent Russians as they wish. This act of brutality is contrasted with the pangs of guilt suffered by the son and his co-conspirators.
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Zar und Zimmermann
Title: Zar und Zimmermann
Character: Admiral Lefort
Released: May 17, 1956
Type: Movie
In the Dutch town of Saardam, Tsar Peter the Great has disguised himself in order to learn the art of ship-building. Another Russian named Peter also works at the wharf, causing a comical case of mistaken identities. Emissaries sent from France and England have difficulty locating the man they are looking for, and the lovely Marie is courted by both Peters. An adaptation of Albert Lortzing's eponymous comic opera (1837).
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Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn
Title: Robert Mayer, der Arzt aus Heilbronn
Character: Privy Councilor Justus Liebig
Released: October 27, 1955
Type: Movie
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Jan und die Schwindlerin
Title: Jan und die Schwindlerin
Character: Jan Remmers
Released: March 4, 1947
Type: Movie
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The Old Song
Title: The Old Song
Character: Graf Richard Waldem
Released: March 29, 1945
Type: Movie
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The Dismissal
Title: The Dismissal
Character: Zar Alexander III.
Released: September 15, 1942
Type: Movie
German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II. and old Bismarck is rapidly widening. It soon appears that an era is coming to an end.
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The Heart of a Queen
Title: The Heart of a Queen
Released: November 1, 1940
Type: Movie
As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her.
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Zentrale Rio
Title: Zentrale Rio
Character: Schmuggler
Released: October 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Maria Halmborg is a widow. Her husband Erik - missing for years - is considered dead. Suddenly she learns that her husband allegedly lives in Rio and sets out on the journey to clarify the matter.
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Kautschuk
Title: Kautschuk
Character: Der Capitano des Urwaldforts
Released: November 1, 1938
Type: Movie
About how the British broke the Brazilian monopoly on natural rubber. The storyline suggests a complex relation between adventure, military conquest and imperialism.
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August der Starke
Title: August der Starke
Character: Fürstenberg
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
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Pillars of Society
Title: Pillars of Society
Character: Urbini
Released: December 21, 1935
Type: Movie
A man comes back from America after years to find his reputation ruined.
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Familie Schimek
Title: Familie Schimek
Released: November 29, 1935
Type: Movie
For three difficult orphans living by her aunt the former employee of the family searches a new premouth; he releases with it a result of tumultuous involvements. - Humble-entertaining mistake farce, completely fitted on Hans Moser.
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The Rider on the White Horse
Title: The Rider on the White Horse
Character: Ole Peters
Released: January 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Freely adapted from Theodor Storm's novella of the same name.