Walter Röhrig (1897-1945) was a German art director who worked in German silent and sound cinema for almost two decades. He trained in Berlin and Zurich, where he painted theatre sets before also devoting himself to painting. His film debut came in 1919 under Hermann Warm, the leading production designer of the period, with whom he worked on Otto Rippert's The Plague in Florence and on Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, a landmark of cinematic Expressionism.
In the 1920s he met Robert Herlth, and the two formed a stable partnership for some sixteen years. They worked exclusively for UFA on large-scale productions such as Arthur von Gerlach's The Chronicle of Grieshuus, F. W. Murnau's The Last Laugh and Faust, and Hans Kyser's Luther. In 1928 Murnau hired them for Four Devils, his second American production. With the arrival of sound they also took on less ambitious films, although titles such as The Princess Turandot and Walzerkrieg stand out.
From 1937 Röhrig worked mainly for the Nazi propagandist Karl Ritter on militarist films, a period that followed his split from Herlth. Near the end of his career he also designed pure entertainment films. His son Peter Röhrig became a well-known film and television art director after the war.