Anton walkbrook gay

Walbrook studied with the director Max Reinhardt and built up a career in Austrian theatre and cinema. Inhe went to Hollywood to reshoot dialogue for the multinational The Soldier and the Lady and in the process changed his name from Adolf to Anton.

Anton Walbrook and the Courtney Affair

Instead of returning to Austria, Walbrook, who was gay [3] and classified under the Nuremberg Laws as "half-Jewish" his mother was Jewish[4] settled in England and continued working as a film actor, making a speciality of playing continental Europeans.

He was in director Thorold Dickinson's version of Gaslightin the role played by Charles Boyer in the later Hollywood remake. In Dangerous Moonlighta romantic melodrama, he was a Polish pianist torn over whether to return home. One of his most unusual films, reuniting him with Dickinson, is The Queen of Spadesa Gothic thriller based on the Alexander Pushkin short story, in which he co-starred with Edith Evans.

His Red Shoes co-star Moira Shearer recalled Walbrook was a loner on set, often wearing dark glasses and eating alone. Walbrook died of a heart attack in Garatshausen, Bavaria, Germany in His anton walkbrook gay were interred in the churchyard of St.

John's Church, Hampstead, London, as he had wished in his testament.