Gustav Diessl
Gustav Diessl was an Austrian artist, and film and stage actor.
Biography
Diessl was born Gustav Karl Balthasar Diessl 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 made his film debut, appearing in Im Banne der Kralle, which was produced in Austria and directed by Carl Froelich. Over the years, Diessl compiled an extensive filmography, including many romantic comedies, several of which were filmed in war-time Italy. One of his more notable roles is in the German 1945 propaganda epic Kolberg, which Nazi officials designed to bolster the peoples' morale at a time when a German victory in World War II seemed increasingly hopeless.
After his first marriage ended, Diessl lived with actress Camilla Horn for several years. After this, he married a second time in 1938 to soprano Maria Cebotari. Diessl died in 1948 following two strokes.
Selected filmography
In Thrall to the Claw – IngenieurVineta, the Sunken City Ssanin The Revenge of the Pharaohs – Hussein – KemalSensations-Prozess – Dr. SpindlerAbgründe – Thomas Beck, LawyerThe Devious Path Pandora's Box – Jack the RipperThe Living Corpse – Viktor Mikhajlovich KareninThat Murder in Berlin Marriage The Man Without Love – Mérone – ein SchauspielerA Mother's Love – Hans ImmermannThe White Hell of Pitz Palu – Dr. Johannes KrafftWomen on the Edge – Robert StevensThree Around Edith – Roger BrownWestfront 1918 – KarlMorals at Midnight – Brat, ein GefangenerLieutenant, Were You Once a Hussar? – Fedor KarewHans in Every Street – SoranzoThe Great Longing – HimselfThe Yellow House of Rio – King-Fu / ScalpaMen Behind Bars – MorrisNights in Port Said – Seaman HansDie Herrin von Atlantis – MorhangeTeilnehmer antwortet nicht – Konrad Quandt - MartinDie Herrgottsgrenadiere - FalettiThe Testament of Dr. Mabuse - Thomas KentRoman einer Nacht - Der FremdeS.O.S. Eisberg - Professor Dr. Karl LorenzWeiße Majestät - Jakob Burghardt, BergführerUn de la montagne - Jacques BurgardEverything for a Woman - Frederic Keyne, FlugzeuginsustriellerDemon of the Himalayas - Dr. Norman - EthnologeThe Love of the Maharaja - MaharadschaA Woman Between Two Worlds - Dr. HellwigMoscow-Shanghai - Serge SmrirnowShadows of the Past Starke Herzen - Rittmeister Alexander von HarbinThe Tiger of Eschnapur - Sascha Demidoff, AbenteurerThe Indian Tomb - Sascha Demidoff, IngenieurFortsetzung folgt - Fred, sein FreundKautschuk - Don Alonzo de RibeiraThe Green Emperor - Henry Miller / Hendrik MyliusIch verweigere die Aussage - Robert LenartI Am Sebastian Ott - StroblThe Star of Rio - Don Felipe EscobarHerz ohne Heimat - Alexander Diersberg, sein StiefbruderSenza cielo - Dr. MartinThe Comedians - Ernst Biron, Count of KurlandClarissa - Bankdirektor FeerenbachThe Hero of Venice - Marco FuserMenschen im Sturm - Alexander OswaticThe Woman of Sin Maria Malibran Calafuria - Tommaso BardelliLa danza del fuoco - Giulio BoldriniNora - Dr. RankMist on the Sea - Pietro RosatiEin Blick zurück - Erwin CorbachKolberg - Lt. SchillThe Trial - Prosecutor BothThe Appeal to Conscience - Dr. Gregor Karpinski