- To his last movies belong "Teenage Rebel" (1956) with Ginger Rogers and "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1959) with James Mason.
- In 1936 he went to England where he wrote and directed the movie "Men Are Not Gods" (1937), finally he migrated to Hollywood in 1937 with a contract for M-G-M. There he was able to write again multitude well-known movies, among others for Billy Wilder, and was very successful.
- He worked in Germany at the beginning of the 30's and committed some milestones of the German film history to paper, especially in the musical field. In this time he often worked together with director Geza von Bolvary and actor Willi Forst.
- He also wrote lyrics to several songs featured in his films, one popular title is "Flieger, grüß mir die Sonne".
- Walter Reisch came back to Germany in the 50's for a short time and wrote the movies "Die Mücke" (1954) and "Der Cornet - Die Weise von Liebe und Tod" (1955), after that he returned to the USA where he was active as a screen writer till 1959.
- Walter Reisch was awarded with an Oscar for his movie "Titanic" in 1953, moreover he also was nominated for three more Oscars.
- The screenwriter Walter Reisch made first experiences in the film business as an assistant of Alexander Korda and he wrote his first scripts for the Austrian film in the silent movie era.
- He was was the cousin of Austrian-American Viennese-language cabarettist, satirist, composer, and author Georg Kreisler.
- When the National Socialists came into power in Germany the Jew Walter Reisch returned to Austria and continued his career in his home country. Especially his cooperation with the actor and director Willi Forst turned out to be very fruitful.
- In 1955 he became presiding judge of the Academy committee for the category "Best Foreign Language Film".
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