Walter Supper

Walter Supper
Born	8 April 1887 Hamm, German Empire
Died	3 March 1943 Berlin, Nazi Germany
Occupation	Screenwriter
Years active	1920-1937 (film)

Walter Supper (1887–1943) was a German screenwriter.^[1] Supper worked on more than thirty screenplays during his career, and also worked occasionally as an actor and director.

Supper refused to divorce his Jewish wife under Nazi pressure, which effectively ended his career. He eventually committed suicide with his wife when it became clear she was about to be arrested.

Selected filmography

• Wandering Souls (1921)
• Mother and Child (1924)
• Chamber Music (1925)
• The Adventures of Sybil Brent (1925)
• Roses from the South (1926)
• The Long Intermission (1927)
• Lotte (1928)
• Violantha (1928)
• The Fourth from the Right (1929)
• The Night Belongs to Us (1929)
• Count Woronzeff (1934)
• Trouble with Jolanthe (1934)
• Black Roses (1935)
• City of Anatol (1936)
• Ride to Freedom (1937)
• Wells in Flames (1937)

References

1. Hardt p.227

Bibliography

• Hardt, Urusula. From Caligari to California: Erich Pommer's Life in the International Film Wars. Berghahn Books, 1996.

External links

• Walter Supper at the Internet Movie Database