- Through the support of Robert Herlth Walter Schulze-Mittendorff met the legendary director, who was looking for a sculptor for his movie set for the production "Der müde Tod" (21) with Bernhard Goetzke in the leading role. Walter Schulze-Mittendorff was engaged and proved himself for future cinematical works.
- After World War 2 he continued his film career as a costume designer for the DEFA.
- In 1962 the in West Berlin living artist worked as a freelancing costume designer for 18 movie and TV productions.
- He allocated his services as a sculptor a last time for the movies "Amphitryon" (1935), "Der Herrscher" (1937), "Der zerbrochene Krug" (1937) with Emil Jannings and "Der Maulkorb" (1938).
- He was engaged as a sculptor for the movies"Peter der Grosse" (1922) with Emil Jannings, Fritz Lang's monumental film "Die Nibelungen" (1924), "Zur Chronik von Grieshuus" (1925) with Lil Dagover and Paul Hartmann and finally Lang's masterpiece "Metropolis" (1926) with Brigitte Helm and Gustav Fröhlich.
- In 1920 he got the "Dr. Paul Schultze award for sculpting" and in 1913 the "Award of Rome".
- When Walter Schulze-Mittendorff for the movie "Amphitryon" not only created the sculptors but also the costumes he found a new field of activity and he created other costumes for numerous movies till the end of his film career.
- The sculptor, art director and costume designer Walter Schulze-Mittendorff began already in 1907, at the age of 14, a sculptor apprenticeship in the studio of Otto Rossius. After the ending he studied sculpture at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Berlin from 1913.
- After the interruption by World War I he continued his study in 1919 and got at the Academy for fine arts a master studio which he possessed till 1926.
- Thanks to his study college and friend, the painter and production designer Robert Herlth, he got in touch with the film business in 1920 and remained true to this medium for many decades.
- For "Metropolis" (1926) Walter Schulze-Mittendorff created all sculptures, especially the formidable machine person and the figure group "The Death and the Seven Deadly Sins", but also the head of "Hel" and the "Seven-Head fanciful Animal".
- Till 1938 he created many impressive sculptures for different movie sets.
- In 1968 Walter Schulze-Mittendorff retired from the film business.
- In 1940 he was officially signed as a costume designer by Terra-Filmkunst Gmbh and he designed the costumes for "Kleider machen Leute" (1940).
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