Paul Ritter (other)
Paul Ritter (1966–2021) was a British stage and screen actor. Paul Ritter may also refer to: * Paul Ritter (painter) (1829–1907), German architectural painter and etcher * Paul Ritter (diplomat) (1865–1921), Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States * Paul Ritter (architect) (1925–2010), a Western Australian architect, town planner, sociologist, artist and author See also *Ritter (surname) __NOTOC__ Ritter is a surname, and may refer to: People A * Alexander Ritter (1833–1896), German composer, violinist, and conductor *Alison Ritter, Australian drug policy academic * August Ritter (civil engineer) (1826–1908), German civil en ...

Paul Ritter
Simon Paul Adams (20 December 1966 – 5 April 2021), known professionally as Paul Ritter, was an English actor. He had roles in films including ''Son of Rambow'' (2007), ''Quantum of Solace'' (2008), ''Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince'' (2009), ''The Eagle'' (2011), and ''Operation Mincemeat'' (2021), as well as television programmes including ''Friday Night Dinner'' (2011–2020), '' Vera'', ''The Hollow Crown'', ''The Last Kingdom,'' ''Chernobyl'', ''Belgravia'' and '' Resistance.'' Early life Ritter was born Simon Paul Adams on 20 December 1966 in Gravesend, Kent. His father Ken Adams, a toolmaker, worked at various power stations; his mother Joan ( Mooney) was a school secretary. His family were Catholic and he had four older sisters. Adams attended Gravesend Grammar School where he acquired an A Level in Theatre Studies. He went on to study Modern Languages at St John's College, Cambridge. After graduating, he went to the Deutsches Schauspielhaus in Hamburg, Germ ...
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Paul Ritter (painter)
Paul Ritter (4 March 1829 – 27 November 1907) was a German architectural painter and etcher. Biography Ritter was born at Nuremberg. He was deaf and dumb from the fourth year of his life. A pupil of Heideloff, he engraved for publishers in Berlin, Stuttgart, and Nuremberg. About 1870 he took up painting in oil. In 1888 the title of royal professor was conferred on him. He died in Nuremberg. Works Ritter acquired considerable reputation with his interiors and street views of Nuremberg, richly supplemented with historical figures, such as: * “Interior of Church of St. Lawrence” (1874) * “Schöne Brunnen” (1880) * “Entry of Procession with the Crown Jewels into Nuremberg in 1424” (1883, City Hall, Nuremberg) * “Entry of Gustavus Adolphus in 1632” (1886) * “Emperor Matthias Leaving the Kaiserburg in 1612” (1890) * “Monument of Saint Sebaldus” Family His younger brother, Lorenz Ritter Lorenz Ritter (24 November 1832 – 3 September 1921) was a German pa ...
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Paul Ritter (diplomat)
Paul Ritter (November 17, 1865 - May 31, 1921) was Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States from 1909 to 1917. Biography He was born in 1865 in Basel, Switzerland. He was consul general at Yokohama from 1892 to 1906. He then was the Ambassador of Switzerland to Japan. He was the Ambassador of Switzerland to the United States from 1909 to 1917. He represented the German Empire The German Empire (),Herbert Tuttle wrote in September 1881 that the term "Reich" does not literally connote an empire as has been commonly assumed by English-speaking people. The term literally denotes an empire – particularly a hereditary ... in the United States when diplomatic relations were severed during World War I on February 3, 1917. In 1917 he was replaced as ambassador by Hans Sulzer. He was reassigned to The Hague until he retired in 1920. He died of apoplexy in Zurich, Switzerland on May 31, 1921. External links References {{DEFAULTSORT:Ritter, Paul (diplomat) ...
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Paul Ritter (architect)
Paul Ritter (6 April 1925 – 14 June 2010) was a Western Australian architect, town planner, sociologist, artist and author. In his roles as the first city planner of the City of Perth and subsequent two decades spent serving as Councillor for East Perth, Ritter is remembered as a brilliant, eccentric and often controversial public figure who consistently fought to preserve and enhance the character and vitality of the central city district. Today he is primarily remembered for his involvement in preserving many of Perth's heritage buildings at a time of rapid redevelopment and preventing the construction of an eight-lane freeway on the Swan River foreshore. Ritter's later career was blighted by a 3-year prison sentence for making misleading statements in applying for export marketing grants. Early years Ritter was born in Prague on 6 April 1925 to Jewish parents Carl Ritter and Elsa (née Schnabel). In 1939, at the age of 13, Ritter was evacuated from Czechoslovakia to En ...
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