Walter Riml

Walter Riml was born on Sep 23, 1905 in Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. Walter Riml's big-screen debut came with Der weiße Rausch - Neue Wunder des Schneeschuhs directed by Arnold Fanck in 1931, strarring Walter - Hamburger Zimmermann. Walter Riml is known for Steputat & Co. directed by Carl Boese, Hans Brausewetter stars as Ernst Masur, Lagerist and Erich Dunskus as Wilhelm Steputat, Futtermittelhändler. The upcoming new movie Walter Riml plays is Der schweigende Engel which will be released on Jan 01, 1957.

Walter Riml is the photographer of the famous portrait of Leni Riefenstahl as "Junta" in her first film "The Blue Light", working there also as second cameraman. Living in Berlin since the early 30s until the end of the war, he was cameraman for Arnold Fanck, the legendary founder of the German Berg Film, worked as an actor in different ski comedies like "The White Flame", was filming in Greenland ( "SOS Iceberg") and Japan (Die Tochter des Samurai). After World War II he made movies in Europe, in 1962 for "The Great Escape" as 2nd unit cameraman or 1969 "On Her Majesty's Secret Service" as 2nd unit cameraman in the mountain unit in Switzerland. As cameraman he worked for more than 100 movies.