Gustav Diessl
Born: 1899-12-30 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Died: 1948-03-20
Known For: Acting
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. - IMDb mini biography by: Rudi Polt / rudipolt@aol.com
Filmography
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
- Nora as Dr. Rank
1943
- Calafuria as Tommaso Bardelli
- The Fire Dance as Giulio Boldrini
1942
1941
- Il bravo di Venezia as Marco Fuser
- Menschen im Sturm as Alexander Oswatic
- The Comedians as Ernst Biron, Herzog von Kurland
- Clarissa as Bankdirektor Feerenbach
1940
- Senza cielo as Dott. Martin
- Herz ohne Heimat as Alexander Diersberg, sein Stiefbruder
- The Star of Rio as Don Felipe Escobar
1939
- I Refuse to Testify as Robert Lenart
- Der grüne Kaiser as Henry Miller / Hendrik Mylius
- I Am Sebastian Ott as Strobl
1938
- The Tiger of Eschnapur as Sascha Demidoff
- The Indian Tomb as Sascha Demidoff
- Fortsetzung folgt as Fred, sein Freund
- Kautschuk as Don Alonzo de Ribeira
1937
- Strong Hearts in the Storm as Rittmeister Alexander von Harbin
1936
- Moscow Shanghai as Sergej Smrirnow
- Shadows of the Past as Dr. Hans Hellwig, Staatsanwalt
- The Love of the Maharaja as Maharadscha
1935
- Demon of the Himalayas as Dr. Norman - Ethnologe
- Everything for a Woman as Frederic Keyne, Flugzeuginsustrieller
1934
- Mountain Man as Jacques Burgard
1933
- The Testament of Dr. Mabuse as Kent
- S.O.S. Iceberg as Professor Dr. Karl Lorenz
- White Majesty as Jakob Burghardt
- Roman einer Nacht as Der Fremde
1932
- Queen of Atlantis as Capt. Morange
- The Mistress of Atlantis as Morhange
- The Herrgotts-Grenadiers as Faletti
- Nights in Port Said
- Teilnehmer antwortet nicht as Konrad Quandt
- Gilgi: One of Us as Martin
1931
- King Fu's yellow house as King-Fu / Scalpa
- Men Behind Bars as Morris
1930
- Westfront 1918 as Karl
- Hans in Every Street as Soranzo
- Love Comes But Once as Fedor Karew
- The Great Desire as Himself
- Morals at Midnight as Brat, a prisoner
1929
- Pandora's Box as Jack the Ripper
- The White Hell of Pitz Palu as Dr. Johannes Krafft
- Mutterliebe as Hans Immermann
- Der Mann, der nicht liebt as Mérone - ein Schauspieler
- Three Around Edith as Roger Brown
- The Living Corpse as Karenin
- Die Ehe
- Frauen am Abgrund as Robert Stevens
1928
- Sensations-Prozess as Dr. Spindler
- The Devious Path as Thomas Beck