Walter Davy(1924-2003)
- Director
- Actor
- Producer
Born 20 December 1924 in Vienna, Davy studied at the Max Reinhardt
Seminar. In 1948, he became assistant director at the Vienna
Burgtheater and worked as a producer at the radio station Rot-Weiss-Rot
from 1950 to 1955. Subsequently, he worked as a director at the Vienna
Burgtheater and Akademietheater and produced several cultural
documentaries for the Austria Wochenschau. From 1968 to 1988 he was
senior director at the national Austrian television station ORF, where
he was also head of the television plays department for five years.
This was his most productive period, during which he worked as director
at theaters in Göttingen, Heidelberg, Berlin, Basle, Düsseldorf and
Vienna. He also directed more than 20 made-for-TV movies, one cinematic
movie and about 400 radio plays. After retiring from his post at the
ORF, Davy continued working as a director and actor. He is most famous
for his role as the one-legged police inspector Paul Schremser in the
Austrian cult TV series "Kottan ermittelt" (1976-1982).
