Gustav Diessl

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

Biography

Diessl was born Gustav Karl Balthasar in Vienna. In 1916, he was an extra on different stages in Vienna but was soon recruited into the army for World War I. During his military service, he was held prisoner for a year.

After the war, Diessl started training as a stage designer but left to pursue a professional career in acting. Meanwhile, he played for a touring company and in 1921 had his first fixed engagement at the Neue Wiener Bühne. That same year he appeared in his film debut, G. W. Pabst's In Banne der Kralle. He continued to act under the Nazi regime and appeared in the 1944-45 propaganda epic Kolberg.

After his first marriage ended, Diessl lived with actress Camilla Horn for several years. After this, his married a second time in 1938 to soprano Maria Cebotari. Diessl died in 1948 following two strokes.

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 - Abgründe
• 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
• Women on the Edge (1929)
• 1929 - Die Drei um Edith
• 1929 - Pandora's Box
• 1930 - Westfront 1918
• 1930 - Moral um Mitternacht
• 1930 - Hans in allen Gassen
• 1930 - The Great Longing
• 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
• 1933 - S.O.S. Eisberg
• 1934 - Un de la montagne
• 1934 - Weiße Majestät
• 1934 - Demon of the Himalayas
• 1935 - Alles um eine Frau
• 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
• 1948 - Der Prozeß

External links

• Gustav Diessl at the Internet Movie Database
• Short Illustrated Biography
• Gustav Diessl's Biography(in German)
• Photographs and literature