German actor
He also gave his voice as dubbing artist to other well-known actors and movies, among others for Stringer Davis in the Miss Marple movies, for Peter Lorre, Bourvil, Buster Keaton, Ed Wynn and Burgess Meredith.
After a new break in the film business where he dedicated to the theater followed a second renaissance in his film career from 1955 and Walter Bluhm was engaged for support roles in numerous movies.
He joined the Max Reinhardt seminar in 1924 and made his stage debut in the same years with the play "Der Kaufmann von Venedig". In the next years followed engagements at different German theaters.
The actor Walter Bluhm first learned the profession of a bookseller but after the apprenticeship he decided to become an actor.
His career had a longer interruption when he served as a soldier at the front line from 1939 to 1944. Only toward the end of World War II he acted again in front of the camera. Walter Bluhm could continue his acting career after the war both on stage and in movies.
Today Walter Bluhm is not well known to the audience as an actor but as dubbing artist. He set a monument for himself as the German voice of Stan Laurel who he dubbed since 1936 and with it he had a significant part in the success of the synchronized Laurel & Hardy movies. Walter Bluhm played out the character of Stan Laurel masterly with his sometime whiny voice.
Walter Bluhm remained active till briefly to his death.
