Gustav Diessl(1899-1948)
- Actor
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 L'enfer blanc du Piz 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.
