- Was interred at the cemetery of Badenweiler-Lipburg.
- Father of Carola Regnier.
- Was also a noted voice actor, best known for performing "Dracula".
- Ensemble member at the famous Vienna Burgtheater from 1961 to 1962, where he had directed for several years before.
- As he spoke French fluently, he -like his wife Pamela Wedekind- also worked as a translator of novels and scripts from French into German.
- In films invariably portrayed eminent personae of knowingly superior disposition or haughty mien: senior physicians or public servants, clever barristers or detectives, powerful aristocrats or elegant men of the world.
- On stage from 1938. Worked from 1941-58 as actor/director at the Münchner Kammerspiele. Remained first and foremost a man of the theatre, for whom films remained a sideline.
- His grandfather was French. His father was a physician born in America, who committed suicide in 1924.
- Father of Anatol Regnier (with Pamela Wedekind).
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