Walter Riml

Born

1905-09-23

Died

1994-06-21

Birthplace

Innsbruck, Austria

Biography

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. - IMDb mini biography by: Helma Tuerk & Dr.Christian Riml