Gustav Diessl was an Austrian artist, and film and stage actor.

Biography

Diessl was born Gustav Karl Balthasar in Vienna

Vienna

Vienna is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Austria and one of the nine states of Austria. Vienna is Austria's primary city, with a population of about 1.723 million , and is by far the largest city in Austria, as well as its cultural, economic, and political centre...

. In 1916, he was an extra on different stages in Vienna but was soon recruited into the army for World War I

World War I

World War I , which was predominantly called the World War or the Great War from its occurrence until 1939, and the First World War or World War I thereafter, was a major war centred in Europe that began on 28 July 1914 and lasted until 11 November 1918...

. 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 continued to act under the Nazi regime and appeared in the notorious 1944-45 propaganda epic Kolberg.

After his first marriage ended, Diessl lived with actress Camilla Horn

Camilla Horn

Camilla Horn was a former German dancer and a film star of the silent and sound era. She starred in several Hollywood films of the late 1920s and in a few British and Italian productions.-Biography:...

 for several years. After this, his married a second time in 1938 to soprano Maria Cebotari

Maria Cebotari

Maria Cebotari was a celebrated Moldavian soprano and actress born in Bessarabia, Russian Empire , who made her career in Germany & Austria.-Biography:...

. Diessl died in 1948 following two strokes.

Filmography

• 1921 - Im Banne der Kralle
• 1923 - Vineta. Die versunkene Stadt
• 1924 - Ssanin
• 1924 - Die Rache des Pharaonen
• 1927 - Sensations-Prozess
• 1928 - Das Gesetz der schwarzen Berge
• 1928 - Abgründe
• 1928 - Abwege
  The Devious Path
  The Devious Path is a 1928 silent German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst.-Cast:* Gustav Diessl - Thomas Beck, Rechtsanwalt* Brigitte Helm - Irene Beck, seine Frau* Hertha von Walther - Liane, ihre Freundin...
  
  
• 1928 - Die Büchse der Pandora
  Pandora's Box (film)
  Pandora's Box is a 1929 German silent melodrama film based on Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist and Die Büchse der Pandora . Directed by Austrian filmmaker Georg Wilhelm Pabst, the film stars Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, and Francis Lederer...
  
  
• 1928 - Der lebende Leichnam
• 1929 - That Murder in Berlin
• 1929 - Die Ehe
• 1929 - Der Mann, der nicht liebt
• 1929 - Mother Love
• 1929 - Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü
• 1929 - Frauen am Abgrund
• 1929 - Die Drei um Edith
• 1930 - Westfront 1918
  Westfront 1918
  Westfront 1918 is a German film, set mostly in the trenches of the Western Front during World War I. It was directed in 1930 by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, from the novel Vier von der Infanterie by Ernst Johannsen, and deals with the impact of the war on a group of infantrymen...
  
  
• 1930 - Moral um Mitternacht
• 1930 - Die große Sehnsucht
• 1930 - Hans in allen Gassen
• 1930 - Leutnant warst Du einst bei deinen Husaren
• 1931 - Les nuits de Port Said
• 1931 - Das gelbe Haus des King-Fu
• 1931 - Menschen hinter Gittern
• 1932 - Die Herrgottsgrenadiere
• 1932 - Die Herrin von Atlantis
• 1932 - Der goldene Gletscher
• 1932 - Eine von uns
• 1932 - Teilnehmer antwortet nicht
• 1932 - Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse
  The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
  The Testament of Dr. Mabuse is a 1933 German crime film directed by Fritz Lang. The movie is a sequel to Lang's silent film Dr. Mabuse the Gambler and features many cast and crew members from Lang's previous films. The film features Rudolf Klein-Rogge as Dr. Mabuse who is in an insane asylum...
  
  
• 1933 - Roman einer Nacht
• 1933 - S.O.S. Eisberg
  S.O.S. Eisberg
  SOS Eisberg is a German-U.S. coproduction, released by Universal Studios in both Germany and the U.S. The film is a dramatic mountain film directed by Arnold Fanck, and filmed in Engadin, Switzerland and in Greenland. The film premiered August 30, 1933 in Berlin. It was filmed simultaneously in...
  
  
• 1934 - Un de la montagne
• 1934 - Weiße Majestät
• 1935 - Alles um eine Frau
• 1934 - Der Dämon des Himalaya
• 1936 - Una donna fra due mondi
• 1936 - Moscow Shanghai
• 1936 - Schatten der Vergangenheit
• 1937 - Starke Herzen
• 1937 - Der Tiger von Eschnapur
• 1938 - Das indische Grabmal
• 1938 - Fortsetzung folgt
• 1938 - Kautschuk
• 1939 - Der grüne Kaiser
• 1939 - Ich verweigere die Aussage
• 1939 - Ich bin Sebastian Ott
• 1940 - Stern von Rio
• 1940 - Herz ohne Heimat
• 1940 - Senza cielo
• 1941 - Komödianten
  The Comedians (1941 film)
  The Comedians is a 1941 German drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. It is based on the novel Philine by Olly Boeheim.-Plot:Karoline Neuber attempts to improve the lot of actors, who are looked down upon as vagabonds...
  
  
• 1941 - Clarissa
• 1941 - Menschen im Sturm
  Menschen im Sturm
  Menschen im Sturm is a 1941 German film. It was anti-Serbian propaganda and part of a concerted propaganda push against Serbs, attempting to split them from the Croats.-Synopsis:...
  
  
• 1941 - Il bravo di Venezia
• 1942 - La donna del peccato
• 1943 - Maria Malibran
• 1943 - Calafuria
• 1943 - La danza del fuoco
• 1943 - Nora
• 1944 - Nebbie sul mare
• 1944 - Ein Blick zurück
• 1944 - Ruf an das Gewissen
• 1945 - Kolberg - Leutnant Schill
• 1948 - Der Prozeß
  The Trial (1948 film)
  The Trial is a 1948 Austrian drama film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst. At the 1948 Venice Film Festival, Pabst won the Award for Best Director; Ernst Deutsch won the award for Best Actor and the Volpi Cup. The story is based on the events of the Tiszaeszlár blood libel.-Cast:* Ewald Balser – Dr....
  
  

External links

• Short Illustrated Biography
• Gustav Diessl's Biography(in German)
• Photographs and literature