1. Still in Basel, Walter began an apprenticeship at a company for bakery and confectionery supplies that went bankrupt, and assumably in 1937 he moved to France, where he attended lessons at the Sorbonne and language lessons in Paris.
14 Facts About Ruedi Walter
1. 2.
Ruedi Walter worked as a volunteer and later as an administrator in London at the Twining-Crossfield tea company.
3.
In 1939 Ruedi Walter returned to Switzerland where he initially was hired as an employee of the advertising department of the Maggi company in Kemptthal.
4.
From 1943 to 1946 Ruedi Walter played in Alfred Rasser's Cabaret Cactus in Basel, among others in Rasser's productions "HD soldier Lappli" and "Democrat Lappli".
5.
At Schauspielhaus Ruedi Walter played among others, in 1956 the blind eunuch Loby in the premiere of Friedrich Durrenmatt's play Der Besuch der alten Dame, and in 1984 the title role in the premiere of "Dr neu Noah".
6.
Ruedi Walter was a popular actor who played adorable-smart roles, shaping the hearts of his audience.
7.
Ruedi Walter sat always for professional dialect theater and appeared in numerous vernacular versions of modern dramas, including as Karl Knie in Jorg Schneider's dialect edition of Carl Zuckmayer's "Katharina Knie" in 1985 in a circus tent at Zurichhorn, and in the title roles of television adaption of Moliere's The Miser and The Imaginary Invalid.
8.
Ruedi Walter embodied numerous other roles in film and television, and in various recordings of Swiss German language farces.
9.
Ruedi Walter was a citizen of the municipality of Dubendorf in the Canton of Zurich where he lived in his late years, and citizen of Seengen in the Canton of Aargau.
10.
Irene Camarius, a Swiss actress born as Marthe Irene Liechti, and Ruedi Walter married in 1962.
11.
Until his death Ruedi Walter stood on the stage and on the movies, though his eyesight greatly subsided.
12.
Ruedi Walter died unexpectedly on complications after a knee surgery: Ruedi Walter rests at the cemetery of Buch am Irchel.
13.
Shortly before he died, Ruedi Walter said: The term takes me proud, because I feel accepted by the people as one of them.
14.
Ruedi Walter was a very good actor, probably one of the best that Switzerland ever had.