[These daily posts will cover little known actors or people that have appeared in more recent films and TV series. Various degrees of information that I was able to find will be given and anything that you can add would be appreciated.]
Waldemar Wohlfahrt was born in Germany in 1941 is a trained chemigrapher (a technique for making engravings or etchings using chemicals) and was known as a playboy when he was arrested on July 7th, 1966, by Interpol in Benidorm, Spain. He was suspected of murdering Arizona language student Eleanor Mae Friday a month before. German tourists came forward and testified he was in Spain the day of Miss Firday’s death. Subsequently, the German warrant for his arrest was lifted. Because of the prejudicial and very massive and negative reporting, he was later awarded several times compensation for pain and suffering. He then tried his hand at singing and worked as an actor between 1970 and the early 1980s, mostly under the name "Wal Davis and Wal Davies". He then declared his acting career completely over.
His problems with German law enforcement were not over as on September 8, 1967, he was sentenced to ten months in prison by a Stuttgart court for pimping. He had returned from Spain in April 1967 and had voluntarily submitted himself to the authorities.
Adela Tauler, who played his sweetheart in “El pez de los ojos de oro” (The Fish with the Eyes of Gold in 1974, was also his girlfriend in real life at the time and later became his wife. The two starred in no less than seven films together, with her even writing the screenplay for a Flick in which he starred “La hija rebelde” (I've had enough), in 1983.
After his acting career ended, I can find no further biographical information on him.
Wal’s only Spaghetti western appearance was as Zeke in 1974’s “Cipolla Colt” (Spaghetti Western). He was to appear in a 1968 Euro-western entitled “A Mercenary for any War” but the film was never made.
DAVIS, Wal (aka Wal Davies) (Waldemar Wohlfahrt)
[1941, Germany - ] – film actor,
singer, married to actress Adela Tauler
A Mercenary for any War – 1968 [Film was never made.]
Spaghetti Western – 1974 (Zeke)
Here’s a link to the Wal Davis story:
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