Gustav Diessl

Gustav Diessl (30 December 1899 - 20 March 1948) was an Austrian artist, and film and stage actor.

Biography

In 1916 he played for the first time as an extra on different stages in Vienna, but soon he had to join the army and was held prisoner for a year during World War I.After the war, Diessl started training as a stage designer, but left to pursue a professional career in acting. In the mean time he played for a touring company, and in 1921 had his first fixed engagement at the Neue Wiener Bühne.

In 1921 he made his film debut in G. W. Pabst's "In Banne der Kralle". In 1928 he starred in "Abgründe", in 1929 he played opposite Louise Brooks in Pabst's "Pandora's Box", and in 1933 opposite Leni Riefenstahl in Arnold Fanck's "SOS Eisberg".

Diessl was able to remain popular in the 1930s and during the 1940s; he appeared in "Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse", directed by Fritz Lang, "Kolberg", directed by Veit Harlan, and "Der Prozess", directed by Pabst.

After his first marriage failed, he lived for several years with actress Camilla Horn, but in 1938 he married the soprano Maria Cebotari. After two strokes he died in 1948. Cebotari died only one year later of liver cancer.

Filmography

*1921 - Im Banne der Kralle
*1923 - Vineta. Die versunkene Stadt
*1924 - Ssanin
*1924 - Die Rache des Pharaonen
*1927 - Sensations-Prozess
*1928 - Das Gesetz der schwarzen Berge
*1928 - Abwege
*1928 - Die Büchse der Pandora
*1928 - Der lebende Leichnam
*1929 - That Murder in Berlin
*1929 - Die Ehe
*1929 - Der Mann, der nicht liebt
*1929 - Mother Love
*1929 - Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü
*1929 - Frauen am Abgrund
*1929 - Die Drei um Edith
*1930 - Westfront 1918
*1930 - Moral um Mitternacht
*1930 - Die große Sehnsucht
*1930 - Hans in allen Gassen
*1930 - Leutnant warst Du einst bei deinen Husaren
*1931 - Les nuits de Port Said
*1931 - Das gelbe Haus des King-Fu
*1931 - Menschen hinter Gittern
*1932 - Die Herrgottsgrenadiere
*1932 - Die Herrin von Atlantis
*1932 - Der goldene Gletscher
*1932 - Eine von uns
*1932 - Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
*1932 - Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
*1933 - Roman einer Nacht
*1932 - S.O.S. Eisberg
*1934 - Un de la montagne
*1934 - Weiße Majestät
*1935 - Alles um eine Frau
*1934 - Der Dämon des Himalaya
*1936 - Una donna fra due mondi
*1936 - Moscow Shanghai
*1936 - Schatten der Vergangenheit
*1937 - Starke Herzen
*1937 - Der Tiger von Eschnapur
*1938 - Das indische Grabmal
*1938 - Fortsetzung folgt
*1938 - Kautschuk
*1939 - Der grüne Kaiser
*1939 - Ich verweigere die Aussage
*1939 - Ich bin Sebastian Ott
*1940 - Stern von Rio
*1940 - Herz ohne Heimat
*1940 - Senza cielo
*1941 - Komödianten
*1941 - Clarissa
*1941 - Menschen im Sturm
*1941 - Il bravo di Venezia
*1942 - La donna del peccato
*1943 - Maria Malibran
*1943 - Calafuria
*1943 - La danza del fuoco
*1943 - Nora
*1944 - Nebbie sul mare
*1944 - Ein Blick zurück
*1944 - Ruf an das Gewissen
*1945 - Kolberg - Leutnant Schill
*1947 - Der Prozeß

External links

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* [http://www.xs4all.nl/~androom/index.htm?biography/p026144.htm Short Illustrated Biography]
* [http://www.cyranos.ch/smdies-d.htm Gustav Diessl's Biography(in German)]
* [http://film.virtual-history.com/person.php?personid=286 Photographs and literature]