- 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
- In 1932 followed his engagement as a cinematographer assistant for Leni Riefenstahl's movie "Das blaue Licht" (1932) which led to another collaboration three years later for Riefenstahl's movie "Triumph des Willens" (1935).
- Because of a bomb attack in 1944 in Berlin he lost his archive with more than 30,000 negatives from his travels and works in Japan and Greenland. Therefore, planned film projects together with the American film producer Paul Kohner could not be realised any more.
- The cinematographer Walter Riml began his professional career as an interior designer and carpenter.
- The 2.05 m tall Tyrolean played the tall carpenter "Fietje" from Hamburg together with his petite carpenter-partner "Tietje" Guzzi Lantschner, both in the traditional black carpenter costume in The White Ecstasy . Their ski acrobatic scenes became legendary until today. This film is also a favorite film for today's snowboarding generation because of the fabulous ski jumps.
- He became established as a cinematographer in the next years and he shot both documentaries and feature movies. To his well-known works of the 30s and 40s belong "Peter im Schnee" (1937), "Der Berg ruft!" (1938), "Zyankali" (1948) and "Weisses Gold" (1949).
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