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Gustav Diessl

Acting · Born December 30, 1899 · Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

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.

Movies with Gustav Diessl

• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) — Kent
• Pandora's Box (1929) — Jack the Ripper
• The Herrgotts-Grenadiers (1932) — Faletti
• Kolberg (1945) — Schill
• Westfront 1918 (1930) — Karl
• The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) — Dr. Johannes Krafft
• Mountain Man (1934) — Jacques Burgard
• Queen of Atlantis (1932) — Capt. Morange
• Moscow Shanghai (1936) — Sergej Smrirnow
• The Appeal to Conscience (1949) — Dr. Gregor Karpinski
• The Great Desire (1930) — Himself
• Demon of the Himalayas (1935) — Dr. Norman - Ethnologe