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Walter Gross (actor)

German actor (1904–1989)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ1600869 ↗
Source-derived summary

Walter Hugo Gross (5 February 1904 – 17 May 1989) was a German actor. He appeared in more than one hundred films from 1933 to 1989.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Walter Gross (actor)” as german actor (1904–1989). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1904, 1989, 1933—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1904-02-05. The account is most persuasive where Walter, Gross and actor can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as german actor (1904–1989). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1600869. VIAF identifies the subject as 80170911. The Library of Congress control number is no2011046463. 2 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1904, 1989 and 1933.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Walter Gross (actor)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.