Walther PP Pistol Series

The Walther PP and variants are used by the following actors in the following movies, television series, and video games:

Specifications

Type: Semi-Automatic Pistol

Caliber: .22 LR, .25 ACP, .32 ACP, .380 ACP,

Capacity: 8 (.32 ACP), 7 (.380 ACP) round magazine (PP) / 7(.32 ACP), 6 (.380 ACP) round magazine (PPK)

Fire Modes: Semiautomatic

Walther PP

War Time Walther PP Pistol. The lesser-known, full-length barreled Walther PP is available in .22LR, 6.35mm auto (.25 ACP), 7.65x17mm (.32 ACP) Auto or 9x17mm (.380 ACP).

Post war Walther PP Pistol - 32 acp. Though most of the pistols built immediately after the war were made by Manurhin of France (under license), the guns are marked "Made in West Germany".

Walther PP Pistol in nickel finish - 32 acp.

Film:

• Robert De Niro as Travis Bickle in Taxi Driver

• Gregg Henry as Val Resnick in Payback

• Various German officers in Downfall aka "Der Untergang"

• Herbert Koefer as SS-Hauptsturmfuehrer Kluttig in Nackt unter Woelfen

• Matt Damon as Jason Bourne and Brian Cox as Ward Abbott in The Bourne Supremacy

• Nazi officer in The Pianist

• Richard Bright as Al Neri in The Godfather Part III

• Mario Van Peebles as Poe Finklestein in Love Kills

• Judd Omen as The Nicaraguan Captain in Red Dawn (impersonating a Makarov)

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).

Walther PPK in 7.65x17mm Auto (.32 ACP)

Walther PPK - 9mm Kurz aka 9x17mm (.380 ACP)

Early Nazi Mod. PPK. Note the differences: orange bakelite grips, lanyard ring, smaller rear sight, grooved top and irregular front - 7.65x17mm Auto (.32 ACP)

Walther PPK .380 fitted with a sound suppressor. (black grips)

Walther PPK .380 with a sound suppressor. (Brown factory grips)

Walther PPK stainless - 9mm Kurz aka 9x17mm (.380 ACP)

Walther PPK blued - 9mm Kurz aka 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 fictional British Intelligence (MI-6) officer 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

• Tom Cruise as Count Von Stauffenburg Valkyrie

• 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 Moonraker, Never Say Never Again, Octopussy, The World Is Not Enough, and Die Another Day

• 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

• Steven Keats as Moshevsky in Black Sunday

• Alexander Godunov as Karl in Die Hard (with and without a silencer)

• Téa Leoni as Julie Mott in Bad Boys

• Mike Myers as Austin Powers 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

• 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"

• Lucy Liu as Pearl in Payback

• Moritz Bleibtreu in Lola rennt

• Faye Dunaway as Ms. K in Blind Horizon

• Clint Eastwood in Pink Cadillac

• Walter Donovan (Julian Glover) carries a Walther PPK in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

• Inglorious Basterds (2009)

• José Ferrer as Prof. Siletski in To Be or Not to Be (1983)

• Rick Aviles as Willie Lopez in Ghost (1990)

• Amanda Peet as Jill St. Claire in The Whole Nine Yards (2000)

• Clive Owen as Mr. Smith in Shoot 'Em Up (2007)

Television

• Seconds From Disaster

• Various characters in The Professionals

• 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

• A cloning expert in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman

• CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

• Klea Scott as FBI Agent Emma Hollis in Millennium

• Bugs (episode "Out Of The Hive")

• Lea Thompson in Tales From The Crypt episode "Only Sin Deep"

• Backup gun for Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum in Magnum P.I.

• Polly Draper as security chief Rita Bronwyn in Monk.

• Traylor Howard as Natalie Teeger in Monk.

• Tony Shalhoub as Adrian Monk in Monk.

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".)

• Team Fortress 2 (as "Pistol")

• Perfect Dark (as the "PP9i")

Animation

• The Adventures of Tintin

Anime

• Gendo Ikari in End of Evangelion
• Case Closed: The Private Eyes' Requiem
• Bill Collins in Gunsmith Cats
• Integra in Hellsing

Novel

• Mitsuru Numai in Battle Royale(Novel)

Walther PPK/S

Walther PPK/S stainless - .380 ACP.

Walther PPK/S - stainless with Pachmayr rubber grips and factory flat bottom magazine - .380 ACP.

Walther PPK/S blued - .380 ACP

The PPK was 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

• Vas Blackwood as Rory Breaker in Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

• David Morse as Detective Frank Nugent in 16 Blocks

Television

• Edward Woodward as Robert McCall in The Equalizer

Anime

• Case Closed: The Last Wizard of the Century