Small-part stage and screen character actor, a former bank employee. From 1949, appeared mainly in East German Defa films and on state-controlled television.
The actor Günther Ballier belonged to the popular support actors in the 30's and took part in many remarkable movies in the prime of the German film industry.
Günther Ballier lived in the new GDR after the war where he only rarely played in front of the camera.