1. Biography

2. Filmography

3. External links

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 logged a large number of films, usually romantic comedies, among them several in war-time Italy. 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.

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.

Filmography

• Im Banne der Kralle (1921)
• Vineta, the Sunken City (1923)
• Ssanin (1924)
• The Revenge of the Pharaohs (1925)
• Sensations-Prozess (1927)
• Abgründe (1928)
• The Devious Path (1928)
• The Living Corpse (1929)
• Pandora's Box (1929)
• That Murder in Berlin (1929)
• Marriage (1929)
• The Man Without Love (1929)
• A Mother's Love (1929)
• The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
• Women on the Edge (1929)
• Three Around Edith (1929)
• Westfront 1918 (1930)
• Morals at Midnight (1930)
• Hans in Every Street (1930)
• The Great Longing (1930)
• Lieutenant, Were You Once a Hussar? (1930)
• Das gelbe Haus des King-Fu (1931)
• Men Behind Bars (1931)
• Nights in Port Said (1932)
• Die Herrgottsgrenadiere (1932)
• Die Herrin von Atlantis (1932)
• Der goldene Gletscher (1932)
• Eine von uns (1932)
• Teilnehmer antwortet nicht (1932)
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1932)
• Roman einer Nacht (1933)
• S.O.S. Eisberg (1933)
• Un de la montagne (1934)
• Weiße Majestät (1934)
• Demon of the Himalayas (1934)
• Alles um eine Frau (1935)
• A Woman Between Two Worlds (1936)
• Moscow-Shanghai (1936)
• The Love of the Maharaja (1936)
• Shadows of the Past (1936)
• Starke Herzen (1937)
• The Tiger of Eschnapur (1938)
• The Indian Tomb (1938)
• Fortsetzung folgt (1938)
• Kautschuk (1938)
• The Green Emperor (1939)
• Ich verweigere die Aussage (1939)
• I Am Sebastian Ott (1939)
• The Star of Rio (1940)
• Herz ohne Heimat (1940)
• Senza cielo (1940)
• The Comedians (1941)
• Clarissa (1941)
• Menschen im Sturm (1941)
• Il bravo di Venezia (1941)
• La donna del peccato (1942)
• Maria Malibran (1943)
• Calafuria (1943)
• La danza del fuoco (1943)
• Nora (1944)
• Nebbie sul mare (1944)
• Ein Blick zurück (1944)
• The Appeal to Conscience (1944/1949)
• Kolberg (1945)
• The Trial (1948)

External links

• {{IMDb name|id=0226158|name=Gustav Diessl}}
• Short Illustrated Biography
• Gustav Diessl's Biography(in German)
• Photographs and literature

• The Man from Tumbleweeds
• The Man from Yesterday (1932 film)
• The Man from Yesterday (1949 film)
• The Mangler 3
• The Manhattan Project (Carter Ace album)
• The Man Hunter (1919 film)
• The Manhunters
• The Man Hunters
• The Maniac
• The Mania Tour
• The Manifesto of 101
• The Man I Killed
• The Manila Major 2016
• The Manilla Express
• The Man I Marry
• The Man in 3B
• The Man in 3B (film)
• The Man in 5A
• The Man in a Case
• The Man in a Hurry (film)
• The Man in Blue
• The Man in Blue (1937 film)
• The Man in Evening Clothes
• The Man in Grey (story collection)
• The Man In My House