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Gunther Philipp

Gunter Philipp
Born Gunter Placheta
(1918-06-08)8 June 1918
Maroshévíz
Austria-Hungary
Died 2 October 2003(2003-10-02) (aged 85)
Bad Godesberg
Germany
Resting place Melaten-Friedhof
Occupation Film actor
Television actor
Physician
Years active 1949–2002
Home town Vienna and Innsbruck

Gunter Philipp (8 June 1918 – 2 October 2003) was an Austrian film actor, physician and swimmer.

From 1949 to 2002 he appeared as an actor in 147 movies for cinema and television, mainly in comic roles. As an author, Philipp wrote 21 film scripts.

During the Second World War, Philipp studied acting at the Max Reinhardt Seminar and at the University of Vienna philosophy majoring in psychology and then medicine. In 1943 he received his doctorate in medicine (Dr. med. univ.) After the war, he ran a practice in Eberstalzell in Upper Austria and was active until in the 1990s at the Vienna University Clinic for Neurology and Psychiatry.



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