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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 White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) ("The White Hell of Pitz Palu"). After that he became famous in USA, but returned to ...
After his first marriage ended, Diessl lived with actress Camilla Horn for several years.
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The actor Gustav Diessl attended courses in painting and art where he already demonstrated his artistic ambitions.
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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.
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He logged a large number of films, usually romantic comedies, among them several in war-time Italy.
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One of his most famous roles was in the German 1944-45 propaganda epic Kolberg designed to strengthen peoples' morale at the time of great military reverses.
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After World War I, 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.
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Diessl died in 1948 following two strokes.
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
Fortsetzung folgt
1938
Fred, sein Freund
Das indische Grabmal
1938
Sascha Demidoff, Ingenieur
The Tiger of Eschnapur
1938
Sascha Demidoff, Abenteurer
Starke Herzen
1937
Rittmeister Alexander von Harbin
Die weissen Teufel
1936
Der Weg nach Shanghai
1936
Serge Smrirnow
Schatten der Vergangenheit
1936
Dr. Hellwig
Die Liebe des Maharadscha
1936
Maharadscha
Der Dämon des Himalaya
1935
Dr. Norman - Ethnologe
Everything for a Woman
1935
Frederic Keyne, Flugzeuginsustrieller
Un de la montagne
1934
Jacques Burgard
White Majesty
1934
Jakob Burghardt, Bergführer
S.O.S. Eisberg
1933
Professor Dr. Karl Lorenz
Roman einer Nacht
1933
Der Fremde
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
1933
Thomas Kent
The Lost Atlantis
1932
Morhange
Die Herrgottsgrenadiere
1932
Faletti
Gilgi: One of Us
1932
Martin
Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
1932
Konrad Quandt
Die Herrin von Atlantis
1932
Capt. Morange
Les nuits de Port Said
1932
Le matelot Hans
Menschen hinter Gittern
1931
Morris
Das gelbe Haus des King-Fu
1931
King-Fu / Scalpa
Hans in allen Gassen
1930
Soranzo (as Gustav Dießl)
Leutnant warst Du einst bei deinen Husaren
1930
Fedor Karew
Moral um Mitternacht
1930
Brat, ein Gefangener
Westfront 1918
1930
Karl
Die Drei um Edith
1929
Roger Brown
Frauen am Abgrund
1929
Robert Stevens
White Hell of Pitz Palu
1929
Dr. Johannes Krafft
Mother Love
1929
Hans Immermann
Der Mann, der nicht liebt
1929
Mérone - ein Schauspieler
Die Ehe
1929
That Murder in Berlin
1929
The Living Corpse
1929
Viktor Mikhajlovich Karenin
Pandora's Box
1929
Jack the Ripper (as Gustav Diesel)
Das Gesetz der schwarzen Berge
1928
The Devious Path
1928
Thomas Beck, Rechtsanwalt
Sensations-Prozess
1928
Dr. Spindler
Die Rache der Pharaonen
1925
Hussein - Kemal
Ssanin
1924
Vineta. Die versunkene Stadt
1923
Im Banne der Kralle
1921
Ingenieur
Ruf an das Gewissen
1949
Dr. Gregor Karpinski
Der Prozeß
1948
Staatsanwalt Both
Kolberg
1945
Lt. Schill
Ein Blick zurück
1944
Erwin Corbach
Nebbie sul mare
1944
Pietro Rosati
Nora
1944
Dr. Rank
La danza del fuoco
1943
Giulio Boldrini
Calafuria
1943
Tommaso Bardelli
The Genius and the Nightingale
1943
La donna del peccato
1942
L'ingegnere
Menschen im Sturm
1941
Alexander Oswatic
Il bravo di Venezia
1941
Marco Fuser, il bravo
Clarissa
1941
Bankdirektor Feerenbach
The Comedians
1941
Ernst Biron, Herzog von Kurland
Senza cielo
1940
Il dottore Martin
Herz ohne Heimat
1940
Alexander Diersberg, sein Stiefbruder (as Gustav Dießl)
Stern von Rio
1940
Don Felipe Escobar
I Am Sebastian Ott
1939
Strobl
Ich verweigere die Aussage
1939
Robert Lenart
Der grüne Kaiser
1939
Henry Miller / Hendrik Mylius
The Green Hell
1938
Don Alonzo de Ribeira
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Die große Sehnsucht
1930
Himself, Gustav Diessl
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
30. Januar 1945
1965
Leutnant Schill
Lieblinge unserer Eltern
1963
TV Series documentary
Himself
Sie sind nicht mehr
1949
Documentary
Known for movies
Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933) as Thomas Kent
Pandora's Box (1929) as Jack the Ripper
White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) as Dr. Johannes Krafft
$1.9 Million
