Walter Riml was an Austrian cameraman and actor born in Innsbruck, Austria. As a passionate sportsman and skier, he contacted the mountain film pioneer Arnold Fanck who made a film in the Tyrolean area of Arlberg in 1927.

Because of a bomb attack in 1944 in Berlin, he lost his archive with more than 30,000 negatives from his travels and works in Japan and Greenland. Therefore, planned film projects together with the American film producer Paul Kohner could not be realized anymore.

After the Second World War, he was a cameraman for the US Army. In 1957 he was one of the four western cameramen who were allowed to make a film about the daily life in Russia.

Walter Riml died at the age of 89 in the year 1994 in Steinach am Brenner, Austria. In his long life, he worked on more than 100 film productions and documentaries worldwide.

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