Pandora's Box
1930
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Gustav Diessl (30 December 1899 – 20 March 1948) was an Austrian artist, and film and stage actor. Biography. Diessl was born Gustav Karl Balthasar Diessl in Vienna. In 1916, he was an extra on different stages in Vienna but was soon recruited into the army for World War I.
Gustav Diessl (1899-1948) was a film and stage actor who worked in Germany, Italy and Hollywood. He starred in classics such as Pandora's Box, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse and Westfront 1918.
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- Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
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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).
When Mabuse's criminal plans begin to be implemented, Inspector Lohmann (Otto Wernicke) tries to find the solution with clues from gangster Thomas Kent (Gustav Diessl), the institutionalized Hofmeister (Karl Meixner) and Professor Baum (Oscar Beregi Sr.) who becomes obsessed with Dr. Mabuse.
Gustav Diessl is known as an Actor. Some of his work includes Pandora's Box, The Testament of Dr. Mabuse, Westfront 1918, The White Hell of Pitz Palu, The Devious Path, S.O.S. Iceberg, Menschen im Sturm, and Kolberg.
Vor 70 Jahren ist er am 20. März 1948 in Wien gestorben. Zu der Hommage begrüßte das Kino des Deutschen Filmmuseums Diessls Sohn Fritz Diessl-Curzon, der mit Dr. Rosemarie Killius und Urs ...
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Nov 9, 2005 · Cocky Dr. Johannes (Gustav Diessl) climbs the eponymous glacial peak and laughs at Nature, only for Nature to laugh back—an avalanche claims his wife and Johannes is reduced to a pensive shadow of his former self, grimly roaming the mountains for her body.
