Actor Walter Bechmann was born as Hubert Freiherr von
Mauchenheim in Blankenbur, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany on July 13, 1887.. He was a
very popular supporting actor from the middle of the 1930's and was a very busy
actor till the collapse of the Third Reich. His early films include "Ein
idealer Gatte" (1935), "Togger" (1937), "Gewehr über"
(1939), "Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes", "Kitty und die
Weltkonferenz" and his only Euro-western “Water for Canitoga" (all
1939).
During World War II he took part in propaganda films as
well as entertainment movies. To his well-known works of those years belong
"Jud Süss" (1940), "Quax der Bruchpilot", "Kora
Terry" (both 41), "Meine Frau Teresa", "Rembrandt"
(both 1942), "Romanze in Moll" (1943) and "Peter Voss, der
Millionendieb" (1945). He only appeared in a few more movies after the
war, among them were "Der Biberpelz" (1949) and "Die Spur führt
nach Berlin" (1952).
Bechmann died on May 3, 1967 in West Berlin, Germany.
Today we remember Walter Bechmann on what would have been
his 125th birthday.
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