Walter Sedlmayr was loved by his audience very much, but nobody knew the real Sedlmayr. He always kept his privat life very private, and it was revealed after his death that he was homosexual. He couldn't come out as a homosexual for different reasons, but the main reason was surely his reputation as a typical bavarian man. When he was brutally killed, it was rumoured that a young prostitute could have killed him, but it was found out that two very close friends and businesspartners killed him. The people were shocked by the brutality of his senseless death
Ran the -still existing- Bavarian restaurant "Beim Sedlmayr" in Munich.
As he often played typical Bavarian characters, Sedlmayr became the most popular Bavarian TV actor from the late 1970s until his cruel death in 1990.
