Gustav Diessl
56 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Dec 30, 1899
- Died
- Mar 20, 1948 (age 48)
- Place of birth
- Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Biography
Gustav Diessl was an Austrian artist, film and stage actor. He studied art, painting and sculpture in Vienna. From 1921 he worked in Berlin as an actor for G.W. Pabst in his silent film, "Abgründe" (1928). In 1929 he played in The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) ("The White Hell of Pitz Palu"). After that he became famous in USA, but returned to Germany after making only one film in Hollywood. He also played in Italian films. After a short-lived first marriage, he cohabited with Camilla Horn for a couple of years, but in 1938 he married opera star Maria Cebotari, with who he had two sons; one of them lives today in England and the other one in New Zealand. Gustav Diessl died, much too young,in Vienna.
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Profiles IMDb
Known for
Gustav Diessl: movies and TV shows
Acting (56)
- 1949 The Appeal to Conscience
as Dr. Gregor Karpinski
- 1948 The Trial
as Staatsanwalt Both
- 1945 Kolberg
as Schill
- 1944 Nebbie sul mare
as Pietro Rosati
- 1944 Nora
as Dr. Rank
- 1943 The Fire Dance
as Giulio Boldrini
- 1943 Calafuria
as Tommaso Bardelli
- 1942
- 1941 Menschen im Sturm
as Alexander Oswatic
- 1941 Il bravo di Venezia
as Marco Fuser
- 1941 Clarissa
as Bankdirektor Feerenbach
- 1941 The Comedians
as Ernst Biron, Herzog von Kurland
- 1940 Senza cielo
as Dott. Martin
- 1940 Herz ohne Heimat
as Alexander Diersberg, sein Stiefbruder
- 1940 The Star of Rio
as Don Felipe Escobar
- 1939 I Am Sebastian Ott
as Strobl
- 1939 I Refuse to Testify
as Robert Lenart
- 1939 Der grüne Kaiser
as Henry Miller / Hendrik Mylius
- 1938 Kautschuk
as Don Alonzo de Ribeira
- 1938 Fortsetzung folgt
as Fred, sein Freund
- 1938 The Indian Tomb
as Sascha Demidoff
- 1938 The Tiger of Eschnapur
as Sascha Demidoff
- 1937 Strong Hearts in the Storm
as Rittmeister Alexander von Harbin
- 1936 Moscow Shanghai
as Sergej Smrirnow
- 1936 Shadows of the Past
as Dr. Hans Hellwig, Staatsanwalt
- 1936 The Love of the Maharaja
as Maharadscha
- 1935 Demon of the Himalayas
as Dr. Norman - Ethnologe
- 1935 Everything for a Woman
as Frederic Keyne, Flugzeuginsustrieller
- 1934 Mountain Man
as Jacques Burgard
- 1933 White Majesty
as Jakob Burghardt
- 1933 S.O.S. Iceberg
as Professor Dr. Karl Lorenz
- 1933 Roman einer Nacht
as Der Fremde
- 1933 The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
as Kent
- 1932 The Mistress of Atlantis
as Morhange
- 1932 The Herrgotts-Grenadiers
as Faletti
- 1932 Gilgi: One of Us
as Martin
- 1932 Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
as Konrad Quandt
- 1932 Queen of Atlantis
as Capt. Morange
- 1932
- 1931 Men Behind Bars
as Morris
- 1931 King Fu's yellow house
as King-Fu / Scalpa
- 1930 Hans in Every Street
as Soranzo
- 1930 Love Comes But Once
as Fedor Karew
- 1930 Morals at Midnight
as Brat, a prisoner
- 1930 Westfront 1918
as Karl
- 1929 Three Around Edith
as Roger Brown
- 1929 Frauen am Abgrund
as Robert Stevens
- 1929 The White Hell of Pitz Palu
as Dr. Johannes Krafft
- 1929 Mutterliebe
as Hans Immermann
- 1929 Der Mann, der nicht liebt
as Mérone - ein Schauspieler
- 1929
- 1929 The Living Corpse
as Karenin
- 1929 Pandora's Box
as Jack the Ripper
- 1928 The Devious Path
as Thomas Beck
- 1928 Sensations-Prozess
as Dr. Spindler
- 1923
Talk shows and appearances (1)
- 1930