---
name: "Walter Frentz"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/walter-frentz"
fi1m_id: "walter-frentz"
imdb_id: "nm0294286"
tmdb_id: 10141
wikidata_id: "Q62028"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "21 August 1907"
died: "6 July 2004"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 70
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-09-25T02:58:02.063340+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Walter Frentz

## Identity

Walter Frentz

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/walter-frentz
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** walter-frentz
- **IMDb ID:** nm0294286
- **TMDB ID:** 10141
- **Wikidata ID:** Q62028
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Frentz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62028, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0294286/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10141

Cinematographer. Born 21 August 1907 in Heilbronn. Died 6 July 2004.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 21 August 1907, Heilbronn
- **Died:** 6 July 2004
- **Active:** 1935–1938
- **Frequently works with:** [Albert Kling](https://film.one/person/albert-kling.md), [Károly Vass](https://film.one/person/karoly-vass.md), [Leni Riefenstahl](https://film.one/person/leni-riefenstahl.md), [Werner Hundhausen](https://film.one/person/werner-hundhausen.md), [Willy Zielke](https://film.one/person/willy-zielke.md), [Alexander von Lagorio](https://film.one/person/alexander-von-lagorio.md), [Andor von Bàrsy](https://film.one/person/andor-von-barsy.md), [Erich Nitzschmann](https://film.one/person/erich-nitzschmann.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Frentz, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q62028, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0294286/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/10141

## Biography

Walter Frentz was a German cinematographer. He was born on 21 August 1907 in Heilbronn and died on 6 July 2004 in Überlingen.

Frentz began working in film in the early 1930s. Through Albert Speer he met Leni Riefenstahl and served as a cinematographer on several of her productions, including *Der Sieg des Glaubens* (1933), *Triumph of the Will* (1935) and the two-part *Olympia* (1938). He also directed and shot other short films in this period.

From 1938 he served as a cameraman with the Luftwaffe, filming events involving Adolf Hitler and producing material for newsreels until the end of the Second World War. After the war he continued occasional work in film and photography.

*Sources: imdb.com, filmportal.de, latimes.com, nytimes.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations* (1938), Fi1m 75, Director of Photography, Cinematography — [page](https://film.one/film/olympia-part-one-festival-of-the-nations.md)
- *Triumph of the Will* (1935), Fi1m 64, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/triumph-of-the-will.md)

## Complete filmography (8)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *From Stag Beetle to Swastika* (2002), Actor
- *Götterdämmerung 1945: Die letzten 10 Wochen des Dritten Reiches* (1991), Camera Operator
- *Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty* (1938), Director of Photography
- *Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations* (1938), Director of Photography — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/olympia-part-one-festival-of-the-nations.md)
- *Day of Freedom* (1935), Cinematography
- *Triumph of the Will* (1935), Director of Photography — Fi1m 64, [page](https://film.one/film/triumph-of-the-will.md)
- *The Bell Calls* (1935), Director of Photography
- *The Victory of Faith* (1933), Director of Photography

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