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- Birth nameGünther Anton Albert Gustav Ballier
- Born in Berlin on 18-10-1900, Günther Ballier attended a drama school in his hometown while working as a bank clerk at the same time to finance his studies. This situation lasted until 1923 when the young man started getting regular commitments at theaters in Potsdam, Neuss, Hanover, Augsburg and of course Berlin. He complemented these activities with appearances in films - most often in small or even bit parts (a reporter, an army officer, a steward on a ship, a civil servant, a headwaiter...) In 1945, he resumed his stage career in various Berlin theaters and even taught drama for a while at Shauspielakademie Fritz Kirchhoff. Then a citizen of the GDR, he was again seen from 1949 on the big screen in DEFA or DFF-produced movies. He was also a regular on TV and on the radio. His voice could furthermore be heard as the dubber of a great number of foreign performers in the post-synchronized version of their films. Günther Ballier did not retire before the age of 75 and died five years later on 20-4-1980.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Guy Bellinger
- Small-part stage and screen character actor, a former bank employee. From 1949, appeared mainly in East German Defa films and on state-controlled television.
- The actor Günther Ballier belonged to the popular support actors in the 30's and took part in many remarkable movies in the prime of the German film industry.
- Günther Ballier lived in the new GDR after the war where he only rarely played in front of the camera.
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