Ruedi Walter or Rudolf Walter, born as Hans Rudolf Häfeli (10 December 1916 – 16 June 1990) was a Swiss comedian, radio personality, and stage and film actor starring usually in Swiss German language cinema and television and stage productions.

Biography

Walter was a citizen of the municipality of Dübendorf in the Canton of Zürich where he lived in his late years, and citizen of Seengen in the Canton of Aargau. Irène Camarius, a Swiss actress born as Marthe Irène Liechti, and Walter married in 1962. They had two children, and lived in Gockhausen, a locality of Dübendorf. Until his death Walter stood on the stage and on the movies, though his eyesight greatly subsided. He died unexpectedly on complications after a knee surgery: Ruedi Walter rests at the cemetery of Buch am Irchel.