Margot Walter, a.k.a. Margot Landa (* 4 October 1903 in Potsdam, Germany; † April 1994 in Camden Town, London, England) was a German actress.
Born in Potsdam near Berlin Walter became a regular member of the cast at the Hamburg Stadttheater in 1923. After a season at the Thalia Theater in Hamburg she moved to Berlin in 1925 after being contracted by the Deutsches Künstlertheater Berlin(German Artist Theatre Berlin), one of the several Berlin theatres run by successful Jewish theatrical producer Heinz Saltenburg. Her usual characters were the ingenue and the soubrette.
The following year (1926) her film career started when she was discovered by Reinhold Schünzel. Margot Walter played mainly happy-go-lucky teenage girls in comedies, romantic comedies and farces which were constantly on an insignificant artistic level. Those were topics popular with the audience during the period of radical change from silent to sound movies. Margot Walter contracted leading and main supporting roles.
Landa may refer to:
Landa is a Basque surname. It is also an Ashkenazi Jewish surname, a modification of Landau. Notable people with the surname include:
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Landa is a village in Álava, Basque Country, Spain.
Coordinates: 42°56′N 2°36′W / 42.933°N 2.600°W / 42.933; -2.600