Walter Franck was born on 16 April 1896 in Hüttensteinach, Saxe-Meiningen [now Thuringia], Germany. He was an actor, known for Bismarck (1940), Zwischen Hamburg und Haiti (1940) and Eskapade (1936). He died on 10 August 1961 in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Bavaria, Germany.