- His The Red Shoes (1948) co-star Moira Shearer recalled Walbrook was a loner on set, often wearing dark glasses and eating alone.
- On the set of Oh... Rosalinda!! (1955) Walbrook--who had left Germany in the early 1930s--would not speak to either Anneliese Rothenberger (extremely temperamental) or Oskar Sima (playing Frosch, in the film a signally unfunny interpreter), both of whom he claimed had been Nazis.
- His ashes were interred in the churchyard of St. John's Church, Hampstead, London, as he had wished in his testament.
- Walbrook was a fervent anti-Nazi who immediately donated his £1000 fee to charity for his part in the movie 49th Parallel (1941).
- His mastery of English was remarkable and enabled him to appear on the stage from 1939 onward, something few emigre actors accomplished. He always brought an English teacher--his English governess from childhood--to the set to help him with pronunciation.
- At the time he appeared in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), Walbrook was also contracted to perform on stage in "Watch on the Rhine" in London's West End. Only on matinee days did this cause real inconvenience, when he had to be quickly whisked away from the film set by a waiting car at exactly 12:00 noon. One evening during the play's interval, there was a knock on Walbrook's dressing-room door. There stood Winston Churchill, red-faced with anger. The Prime Minister proceeded to berate the actor for taking part in "The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp": 'What's this supposed to mean? I suppose you regard it as good propaganda for Britain?' To which Walbrook replied, "No people in the world, other than the English, would have had the courage, in the midst of war, to tell the people such unvarnished truth".
- During a performance at the "Münchenern Kleinen Komödie" he collapsed; four months later he died due to a heart attack. He was buried in the churchyard of St. John's Church, London, England. His mourners had flowers delivered to show their sympathy.
- Walbrook was born in Vienna, Austria, as Adolf Wohlbrück. He was the son of Gisela Rosa (Cohn) and Adolf Ferdinand Bernhard Hermann Wohlbrück. He was descended from ten generations of actors, though his father broke with tradition and was a circus clown.
- After World War II he appeared on German stages but the German film business offered him very little.
- He made his film debut in 1915 in Marionetten (1915). He made another film in 1925, however his real film career came with the beginning of sound.
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