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CodeDS/UK/23015
NameWalter; Wilfred (2 March 1882-9 July 1958); English film and theatre actor
Variations of NameFranz Wilfrid Walter; Wilfrid Walter
Dates2 March 1882-9 July 1958
GenderMale
Place of Birth/OriginRipon, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
BiographyWilfred Walter was an English film and theatre actor.

He was a Shakespearian actor during the first half of the 20th century, playing at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, Stratford-upon-Avon and the Old Vic, where his major roles included Mark Antony, Falstaff, Othello, Bottom and Titus Andronicus.

His best known film role was as Max Slessor the eponymous inmate in the 1938 comedy Convict 99, who is mistaken for the prison governor Benjamin Twist (Will Hay).[5] Walter also acted as the monstrous lumbering brute Jake, Dr Orloff's (Bela Lugosi) assistant in the 1939 film adaption of the Edgar Wallace thriller The Dark Eyes of London.

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