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The Walther PP and varients are used by the following actors in the following movies, television series, and video games:
Walther PP
Film:
- Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver
- Various German officers in Downfall aka "Der Untergang"
- Used by Sean Connery as James Bond in Dr. No. The gun is said to be a PPK, but the one used in the film is actually a PP.
Anime
- Seen as the sidearm of Captain Tessa in Full Metal Panic
Walther PPK
- The Walther PPK was manufactured in 6.35mm auto (.25 ACP), 7.65x17mm (.32 ACP) Auto or 9x17mm (.380 ACP).
While the K would commonly stand for kurz, German for "Short", PPK means Polizei Pistole Kriminal, the Criminal Police Pistol, noted by its compact criminal size. The Walther PPK is a shortened version of the Walther PP. Since it was the most common compact pistol of WW2 (for the German forces) it is the most famous as well as being the weapon of choice for 007 James Bond.
Note, the K does indeed stand for Kriminal, however, this term needs some fleshing out. It is referred to as Kriminal not because of any preferred usage of smaller guns by Criminals, but because this is the gun issued to the Criminal division, i.e. the people who investigate crimes, which would be termed 'Detectives Division' in most U.S. police forces. Just like most patrolmen in the USA carried a 4 inch revolver at the time, and the Detectives often carried a snub nose revolver (Colt specifically calling theirs the Detective Special) so to did the investigative branch of the German Police desire to carry a smaller version of the full sized patrolman's duty weapon.
Film:
- Jeremy Roberts as Bobby the Bouncer inThe Mask
- Lorraine Hilton as Amanda Paver in Hot Fuzz
- Leonardo DiCaprio as William 'Billy' Costigan Jr. in The Departed
- Sean Connery, George Lazenby, Roger Moore, Timothy Dalton, Pierce Brosnan and Daniel Craig as James Bond in all of the films with the exception of The World Is Not Enough, Die Another Day, and Casino Royale (It is used in half of Tomorrow Never Dies before 007 switches to a Walther P99. It is used again by Daniel Craig in Quantum of Solace.
- Sam Phillips as Katya in Die Hard with a Vengence (with stainless steel finish and pearl grips)
- James Carpinello as Robert Saint in The Punisher
- The hoodlum in Lethal Weapon
- Alexander Godunov as Karl in Die Hard (with and without a silencer)
- Téa Leoni as Julie Mott and Will Smith as Detective Mike Lowrey in Bad Boys
- Mike Myers as Austin Powers and Mimi Rogers as Mrs. Kensington in Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
- Barbara Bach as Major Anya "XXX" Amasova in The Spy Who Loved Me
- Undercover FBI Agent in Face/Off
- David Morse as Detective Frank Nugent in 16 Blocks
- James Franco as Harry Osborne in Spider-Man
- Christopher Walken as Max Zorin, and Grace Jones as May Day in A View to a Kill
- Max von Sydow as Joubert in Three Days of the Condor
- Tony Goldwyn as Carl Bruner and Rick Aviles as Willie Lopez in Ghost
- Geena Davis as Charly Baltimore in The Long Kiss Goodnight
- A Crimson Jihad terrorist in True Lies (fitted with silencer)
- Noble Willimgham in The Last Boy Scout
- Chow Yun-Fat as Ah Jong in The Killer
- Bruno Ganz as Adolf Hitler and various Nazi soldiers in Downfall aka "Der Untergang"
Television
- Ryan Sands as Leroy Barnes in The Kill Point
- Avery Brooks as Benjamin Sisko and Alexander Siddig as Julian Bashir in Star Trek: Deep Space 9
- Miroslav Nemec and Michael Fitz in Tatort
- SAS Troopers in Ultimate Force
Video Games
- GoldenEye 007 (as the "PP7", available with and without a silencer)
- 007: Nightfire (as the "Wolfram PP7", available with a removable silencer)
- From Russia With Love (as "Wolfram PP7", fitted with silencer for single player and without for multiplayer).
- Scarface: The World is Yours (as the ".38 Auto".)
Novel
- Mitsuru Numai in Battle Royale(Novel)
Walther PPK/S
- When the Gun Control Act of 1968 was being written, some American firearms companies promoted the concept of a 'sporting purpose' requirement. It was a ill advised (and greedy) attempt to suppress the importation of small foreign made handguns (but this sporting purpose clause was used later to ban many sorts of weapons from importation, from so called 'assault weapons', to foreign barrels to parts kits.)So one of the primary tools of gun control was actually created by short sighted American Gun companies in the 1960s.
- This restriction on non sporting weapons outlined an arbitrary size and weight limitation which made the imported Walther PPK too small for importation into America, so to fix the problem, Walther slapped a PPK slide on a PP frame and built the PPK/S. The most notable way to tell a PPK from a PPK/S is its finish (a PPK/S is far more common as a stainless gun than a PPK) and longer frame spur. Also, Walther did managed to sell more pistols that would otherwise be banned under the harsh rules of GCA-68 by building them domestically (Walther U.S.A.).
Film
- Kevin Costner as Mr. Earl Brooks in Mr. Brooks
- Dwight Yoakam as Leroy Wasley in Hollywood Homicide
- Christopher Eccleston as Calitri Gone in Sixty Seconds
- James Caan as U.S. Marshal Robert Deguerin in Eraser