Gustav Diessl
Birthday: 1899-12-30 | Place of Birth: 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. - IMDb mini biography by: Rudi Polt / rudipolt@aol.com
Known For
Acting
Role
as Dr. Gregor Karpinski
as Staatsanwalt Both
as Schill
as Dr. Rank
as Pietro Rosati
as Kent
as Bankdirektor Feerenbach
as Ernst Biron, Herzog von Kurland
as Marco Fuser
as Alexander Diersberg, sein Stiefbruder
as Don Felipe Escobar
as Henry Miller / Hendrik Mylius
as Jakob Burghardt
as Robert Lenart
as Strobl
as Don Alonzo de Ribeira
as Fred, sein Freund
as Sascha Demidoff
as Sascha Demidoff
as Rittmeister Alexander von Harbin
as Dr. Hans Hellwig, Staatsanwalt
as Maharadscha
as Sergej Smrirnow
as Dr. Norman - Ethnologe
as Frederic Keyne, Flugzeuginsustrieller
as Jacques Burgard
as Der Fremde
as Professor Dr. Karl Lorenz
as Capt. Morange
