Walther Brügmann was rarely active in the film business.
The actor and director Walther Brügmann made an education as a bookseller. Beside it he was already interested in acting and he took acting lessons.
He made his stage debut in Leipzig in 1904, it followed engagements in Gera, Münster, again in Lepizig and Frankfurt am Main.
He went to Munich at the beginning of the 30s, afterwards he moved to Berlin where he continued his stage career successfully.
He became not only established as a stage actor but he also realised plays as a director from 1912.
During the years of the National Socialism his career ended in Germany.
As a result of a denunciation he was suspended from the Reichstheaterkammer. He first worked in Austria and Italy before he emigrated to Switzerland. There he was active again as a director at the Stadttheater Bern, later he became a director of the opera.