Career
Margot Landa (* 4 October 1903 in Potsdam, Germany. † April 1994 in Camden Town, London, England) was a German actress. 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
Margot Walter contracted leading and main supporting roles. Married to Jewish silent movie star Max Landa, 30 years her elder, her career came to a sudden end in Januar 1933 when the Nazi Party took over the government in Germany.
As Margot Landa the young widow settled down in England, where she had worked already in 1928.
Her last film appearance was in the British production Night Alone in 1938. Warwick Ward, the producer of Night Alone, knew her from Berlin where he had worked as an actor. In spring 1994 Margot Landa died in Camden Town.
A different Margot Walter (born 1924) worked exclusively as stage actress, e.g. in Ingolstadt}, Germany in the 1950s.