Gustav Diessl
Acting
Biography
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Born: December 30, 1899
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Known For
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.
Pandora's Box
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
The Devious Path
Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin's nightlife-- An evening of dancing, dolls, cocaine and immoral passion. Irene takes the "devious path" as she seeks to make her husband jealous.
Nights in Port Said
The niece of a shady tavern-keeper of Port Said, surrounded by dangerous men who haunt the ports, meets a man whom she will love and with whom she flees.
Hans in Every Street
A bold crime caper about muckraking journalist Hans Steindecker, who happens to witness a spectacular murder. Shortly afterwards, he makes the acquaintance of Nelly who desperately wants to leave the country and asks for Steindecker′s assistance. Without giving a second thought, he agrees, and only after Nelly has disappeared does he realize that the young woman duped him.
The White Hell of Pitz Palu
Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
Westfront 1918
A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
The Great Passion
This is a real curiosity; at best a reasonable film, but also a charming little gem. There is a story (in the line of "A Star is Born"), but this merely serves as an excuse, as it is more importantly a kind of moving encyclopedia of about 35 stars making their debut in a talkie (although some of them had already made one talkie), of the technical sound possibilities and of film making. Besides all that, it is entertaining and sometimes hilarious and it has fine one-liners that split my side. The film is also remarkable for making mock of typical German film genres (like the overly sweet romances involving the military), of too heavy acting and of film making in general. I have to mention this one: a short, hysterically funny parody of "Der blaue Engel". What this film in fact says is: do not take any film too seriously. (J. Steed)
The Trial
In 1882 a country girl disappears from a small Hungarian village. The inhabitants suggest that she was murdered by the Jews. Everything is done to accuse them before the trial. A study in stubbornness, racism and intolerance and how to fight against it.
Kolberg
During Napoleon's victorious campaign in Germany, the city of Kolberg gets isolated from the retreating Prussian forces. The population of Kolberg refuses to capitulate and organizes the resistance against the French army, which immediately submits the city to massive bombardments.
Filmography
as Dr. Gregor Karpinski
as Staatsanwalt Both
as Schill
as Pietro Rosati
as Dr. Rank
as Giulio Boldrini
as Tommaso Bardelli
as Alexander Oswatic
as Marco Fuser
as Bankdirektor Feerenbach
as Ernst Biron, Herzog von Kurland
as Dott. Martin
as Don Felipe Escobar
as Don Alonzo de Ribeira
as Fred, sein Freund
as Sascha Demidoff
as Sascha Demidoff
as Rittmeister Alexander von Harbin
as Sergej Smrirnow
as Dr. Hans Hellwig, Staatsanwalt
as Maharadscha
as Dr. Norman - Ethnologe
as Jakob Burghardt
as Professor Dr. Karl Lorenz
as Der Fremde
as Kent
as Morhange
as Faletti
as Martin
as Konrad Quandt
as Capt. Morange
as Morris
as King-Fu / Scalpa
as Soranzo
as Fedor Karew
as Himself
as Brat, a prisoner
as Karl
as Roger Brown
as Dr. Johannes Krafft
as Hans Immermann
as Karenin
as Jack the Ripper
as Thomas Beck