List of Austrian film actors - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

This List of Austrian film actors shall include all actors who played at least in a few cinema films, insignificant in which country this film was produced. Actors who only played in TV productions an in not even one cinema production shall not be mentioned here. Actors who were active in more than one era are listed only in that era in which they started their acting career.

Silent film era (1906-1930)

Females:
Eugenie Bernay, Sybille Binder

Sybille Binder

Sybille Binder was an Austrian actress of Jewish descent whose career of over 40 years was based variously in her home country, Germany and the United Kingdom, where she found success in films during the 1940s.-Career:...

, Betty Bird, Hedwig Bleibtreu, Carmen Cartellieri, Mady Christians

Mady Christians

Marguerita Maria "Mady" Christians was an Austrian actress who achieved a successful acting career in theatre and film, in the United States until she was blacklisted during the McCarthy period....

, Josefine Dora, Olga Engl

Olga Engl

Olga Engl was an Austrian stage and motion picture actress who appeared nearly 200 films during her career in the film industry....

, Anna Exl, Nora Gregor

Nora Gregor

-Biography:She was born Eleonora Hermina Gregor in Gorizia, a town which then belonged to Austria-Hungary but is now part of Italy, to Austrian Jewish parents.Her first husband was Mitja Nikisch, a pianist...

, Mizi Griebl, Ilka Grünig

Ilka Grünig

Ilka Grüning Born in Vienna in the old Austrian-Hungarian Empire. She was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933.-Career:...

, Grit Haid, Liane Haid

Liane Haid

Liane Haid was an Austrian actress who has often been referred to as Austria's first movie star.Born in Vienna, Haid trained both as a dancer and singer and became the epitome of the Süßes Wiener Mädel and a popular pin-up throughout the 1920s and 30s...

, Stefanie Hantzsch, Else Heller, Dora Hrach, Dora Kaiser, Trude Lechle, Marie Marchal, Eva May, Mia May, Anny Milety, Hansi Niese, Mela Schwarz, Magda Sonja, Margarete Thumann, Gisela Werbezirk, Maria Zelenka

Males:
Wolf Albach-Retty

Wolf Albach-Retty

Wolf Albach-Retty was a Vienna-born Austrian actor. He had a daughter with German actress Magda Schneider named Romy Schneider....

, Ernst Arndt

Ernst Arndt (actor)

Ernst Arndt was a German stage and film actor notable for his later career in Austria.-Life:Arndt was born in Magdeburg, Germany. From 1910 he was a member of the Burgtheater ensemble in Vienna. He also made occasional appearances in supporting roles in films...

, Ludwig Auer, Felix Basch, Ernst Bath, Karl Baumgartner, Hermann Benke, Max Bing

Max Bing

Max Bing was a German actor and director of radio plays.-Biography:Bing was born in Dresden. He received his first theatrical engagement in 1903 at the Ducal Court Theatre, Meiningen . After that he performed in, among other places, Düsseldorf, Vienna, Brno, Stuttgart and Berlin...

, Karl Blasel, Willy Danek, Joseph Delmont

Joseph Delmont

Joseph Delmont, was an Austrian film director of some 200 films, largely shorts, in which he was noted for his innovative use of beasts of prey. He was also a cameraman, actor and screenplay writer...

, Ernst Deutsch

Ernst Deutsch

Ernst Deutsch aka Ernest Dorian was an Austrian actor. In 1916 he played the protagonist in the world première of Walter Hasenclever's Expressionist play The Son in Dresden to great acclaim...

, Gustav Diessl

Gustav Diessl

Gustav Diessl 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...

, Felix Dörmann, Anton Edthofer, Walter Edhofer, Karl Ehmann, Heinrich Eisenbach, Ferdinand Exl, Karl Farkas

Karl Farkas

Karl Farkas was an Austrian actor and cabaret performer.In accordance with the wishes of his parents, he was to study law, but decided to follow the call of the stage...

, Friedrich Feher, Willi Forst

Willi Forst

Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer...

, Rudolf Forster

Rudolf Forster

Rudolf Forster was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 106 films between 1914 and 1968. His autobiography Das Spiel, mein Leben was published by Propyläen-Verlag in 1967....

, Alexander Girardi

Alexander Girardi

Alexander Girardi was an Austrian] actor and tenor singer in operettas.- Career :Girardi was born in Graz; his father was the locksmith Andreas Girardi who had migrated to Graz from Cortina d'Ampezzo. Following the early death of his father, Alexander Girardi was raised by his stepfather who put...

, Franz Glawatsch, Karl Götz, Alexander Granach

Alexander Granach

Alexander Granach was a popular German actor in the 1920s and 1930s.- Biography :Granach was born Jessaja Granach in Werbowitz to Jewish parents and rose to theatrical prominence at the Volksbühne in Berlin...

, Emmerich Hanus, Heinz Hanus, Karl Harbacher, Franz Höbling, Hans Homma, Oskar Homolka, Paul Hörbiger

Paul Hörbiger

Paul Hörbiger was an Austrian theatre and film actor.-Life and work:Paul Hörbiger was born in Budapest, the son of Hans Hörbiger, an engineer who wrote Welteislehre on glacial cosmology, and elder brother of actor Attila Hörbiger. In 1902 the family returned to Vienna, while Paul attended the...

, Fritz Imhoff, Hans Jaray, Franz Kammauf, Oskar Karlweis, Wilhelm Klitsch, Fritz Kortner

Fritz Kortner

Fritz Kortner was an Austrian-born stage and film actor and theatre director.Kortner was born in Vienna as Fritz Nathan Kohn. He studied at the Vienna Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. After graduating, he joined Max Reinhardt in Berlin in 1911 and then Leopold Jessner in 1916. Also in that year...

, Viktor Kutschera, Fred Louis Lerch

Fred Louis Lerch

-Selected filmography:* Rutschbahn * Parisiennes * Der rote Kreis * Der Walzerkönig -External links:...

, Fritz Lunzer, Hans Marr, Hubert Marischka

Hubert Marischka

Hubert Marischka , brother of Ernst Marischka, was an Austrian operetta tenor, actor, film director and screenwriter.- Career :...

, Ferdinand Maierhofer, Paul Morgan, Hans Moser

Hans Moser (actor)

Hans Moser was an Austrian actor who, during his long career, from the 1920s up to his death, mainly played in comedy films. He was particularly associated with the genre of the Wiener Film...

, Eugen Neufeld, Max Neufeld

Max Neufeld

Max Neufeld was an Austrian film director, actor and screenwriter. He directed 70 films between 1919 and 1957. He directed the 1934 film The Song of the Sun, which starred Vittorio De Sica.-Selected filmography:...

, Alfred Neugebauer, Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

-Biography:Pabst was born in Raudnitz, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary , the son of a railroad employee.Returning from the United States, he was in France when World War I began...

, Max Pallenberg

Max Pallenberg

Max Pallenberg was an Austrian singer, actor and comedian.Although Pallenberg's career started in 1904 it wasn't until 1909 that he joined Theater an der Wien and Vienna's Deutsches Volkstheater. However, it was at Berlin's Deutsches Theater where he left a lasting mark on German theatrical...

, Georg Reimers, Josef Reithofer, Paul Richter

Paul Richter

Paul Richter was an Austrian film actor. He married the actress Aud Egede-Nissen and was stepfather to Georg Richter.-Selected filmography:* The Indian Tomb * Die Nibelungen * The Sorceror...

, Hans Rhoden, Hermann Romberg, Szöke Sakall, Fred Sauer, Josef Schildkraut, Oskar Sima

Oskar Sima

Oskar Sima was an Austrian actor who is best remembered for appearing in supporting roles in countless comedy films from the 1930s to the 1960s.Born in Hohenau an der March, Lower Austria, Sima attended high school in Vienna...

, Fritz Spira, Walter Slezak

Walter Slezak

Walter Slezak was a portly Austrian character actor who appeared in numerous Hollywood films. Slezak often portrayed villains or thugs, most notably the German U-boat captain in Alfred Hitchcock's film Lifeboat , but occasionally he got to play lighter roles, as in The Wonderful World of the...

, Curt Stark, Ludwig Stössel

Ludwig Stössel

Ludwig Stössel was an actor born in Lockenhaus, Austria. He was one of many Jewish actors and actresses that were forced to flee Europe when the Nazis came to power in 1933....

, Erich von Stroheim

Erich von Stroheim

Erich von Stroheim was an Austrian-born film star of the silent era, subsequently noted as an auteur for his directorial work.-Background:...

, Igo Sym

Igo Sym

Karol Juliusz "Igo" Sym was an Austrian-born Polish actor and collaborator with Nazi Germany. He was killed in Warsaw by members of the Polish resistance movement.-Early career:...

, Willy Thaller, Hermann Thimig

Hermann Thimig

Hermann Thimig was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 102 films between 1916 and 1967.His father Hugo Thimig was a stage actor and his sister Helene was a stage actress. Thimig began his professional career in 1910 at the Hoftheater in Meiningen till the First World War...

, Anton Tiller, Otto Tressler, Hans Unterkircher

Hans Unterkircher

Hans Unterkircher was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 63 films between 1916 and 1971.He was born in Graz, Austria and died in Vienna, Austria.-Selected filmography:* The Tiger Woman...

, Theodor Weiß, Eduard von Winterstein, Otto Wögerer, Anton Walbrook

Anton Walbrook

Anton Walbrook, born was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom.- Life :...

, Friedrich Zelnik

Early sound film era (1929-1959)

Females:
Rosa Albach-Retty

Rosa Albach-Retty

Rosa Albach-Retty was an Austrian movie and stage actress. Her birth name was Rosa Clara Franziska Helene Retty....

, Senta Berger

Senta Berger

Senta Berger is an Austrian film, stage and television actress, producer and author.Regarded by critics as one of the greatest actresses of the post-war period, and frequently named as one of the leading German-speaking actresses in polls, Berger has received many award nominations for her acting...

, Vanessa Brown

Vanessa Brown

Vanessa Brown was an Austrian-American actress who was successful in radio, film, theater, and television.-Early life:...

, Friedl Czepa, Elfriede Datzig, Vilma Degischer, Poldi Dur, Margarethe Dux, Edith Elmay, Maria Emo, Maria Eis

Maria Eis

Maria Eis was an Austrian actress of stage and screen.Between 1918 and 1923 Eis performed on stage at the Neue Wiener Bühne , the Renaissancebühne and the Kammerspielen...

, Ilse Exl, Hilde Föda, Helma Gautier, Elfe Gerhart-Dahlke, Adrienne Gessner, Käthe Gold

Käthe Gold

Käthe Gold was an Austrian actress.Born in Vienna, she trained in that city as an actress and then went to Bern, Breslau and Munich. In 1932 she went to Berlin, where she remained until 1944...

, Anita Gutwell

Anita Gutwell

-Selected filmography:* The Cowgirl of Saint Catherine * Sebastian Kneipp * Münchhausen in Afrika * Hohe Tannen * Freud -External links:...

, Waltraut Haas

Waltraut Haas

Waltraut Haas is a popular Austrian stage and film actress and singer.Born in Vienna, Haas grew up at Schloss Schönbrunn, where her mother was a restaurateur. Haas made her stage debut in Linz but was soon won over to the big screen...

, Marte Harell, Heidemarie Hatheyer

Heidemarie Hatheyer

Heidemarie Hatheyer was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1938 and 1988.-Selected filmography:* Dr. Holl * Desires * Sauerbruch – Das war mein Leben...

, Angelika Hauff, Olly Holzmann, Judith Holzmeister

Judith Holzmeister

Judith Maria Holzmeister was an Austrian actress. Her performances included Kunigunde opposite Ewald Balser in Franz Grillparzer's König Ottokars Glück und Ende at the reopening of the famed Vienna Burgtheater in 1955....

, Lizzi Holzschuh, Christiane Hörbiger

Christiane Hörbiger

Christiane Hörbiger is an Austrian television and film actress.-Life and work:Christiane Hörbiger is one of the three actress daughters of Austrian actors Attila Hörbiger and Paula Wessely . Her sisters are Elisabeth Orth and Maresa Hörbiger.She has played roles in various German and Austrian TV...

, Gusti Huber

Gusti Huber

Auguste Huber was an Austrian theater and film actress.She received her acting training from Dr. Beer who also arranged her debut in Zurich...

, Ulla Jacobsson

Ulla Jacobsson

Ulla Jacobsson was a Swedish actress who is perhaps best known for playing one of the very few female roles in the film Zulu....

, Gertraud Jesserer

Gertraud Jesserer

-Selected filmography:* Eva * I Learned It from Father * Attempted Flight * Debt of Love * Rex-der Kleine Kommissar * Germanija * Lautlos * Il Commissario Rex...

, Geraldine Katt, Eva Kerbler

Eva Kerbler

-Selected filmography:* Columbus Discovers Kraehwinkel * Rosen für Bettina * Santa Lucia * And Who Is Kissing Me? -External links:...

, Doris Kirchner, Hansi Knoteck

Hansi Knoteck

-Selected filmography:* Hubertus Castle * The Man Who Was Sherlock Holmes * Ride to Freedom * Storms in May * Der Jäger von Fall -External links:...

, Dora Komar, Inge Konradi, Hilde Krahl

Hilde Krahl

Hilde Krahl was an Austrian film actress. She appeared in 70 films between 1936 and 1994.She was born Hildegard Kolačný in Brod, Austria-Hungary and died in Vienna, Austria...

, Ida Krottendorf

Ida Krottendorf

Ida Krottendorf was an Austrian actress. She was married from 1955 to Austrian actor Ernst Stankovski and in the second marriage from 1960 until 1991 to Klausjürgen Wussow...

, Elfriede Kuzmany, Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr

Hedy Lamarr was an Austrian-American actress celebrated for her great beauty who was a major contract star of MGM's "Golden Age".Lamarr also co-invented – with composer George Antheil – an early technique for spread spectrum communications and frequency hopping, necessary to wireless...

, Lotte Lang, Susi Lanner

Susi Lanner

Susi Lanner was an Austrian film actress who played major roles in German productions from 1932 to 1937.- Biography :...

, Lotte Ledl

Lotte Ledl

-Selected filmography:* Eine fast perfekte Scheidung-An Almost Perfect Wedding * 38 / 38 - Auch das war Wien-'38 Home to the Realm * Derrick - Season 9, Episode 04: "Die Fahrt nach Lindau" * Derrick - Season 8, Episode 02: "Am Abgrund"...

, Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya

Lotte Lenya was an Austrian singer, diseuse, and actress. In the German-speaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language film she is remembered for her Academy Award-nominated role in The Roman Spring of Mrs...

, Gerlinde Locker

Gerlinde Locker

Gerlinde Locker is an Austrian actress.-Selected filmography:* Auch ich war nur ein mittelmäßiger Schüler *Derrick - Season 8, Episode 8: "Prozente" -External links:*...

, Sylvia Lopez

Sylvia Lopez

Sylvia Lopez was a French model and actress.Born Tatjana Bernt, she was raised in Paris, where she began a career in modelling. Eventually she modeled for couturier Jacques Fath, the first French fashion designer to export his creations to the United States...

, Erni Mangold, Christl Mardayn

Christl Mardayn

Christl Mardayn née Anna Christina Mardayn, sometimes Christiane Mardayne was an Austrian actress and singer .-Life:...

, Trude Marlen, Johanna Matz

Johanna Matz

-Selected filmography:* Season in Salzburg * The White Horse Inn * The Life and Loves of Mozart * Ingrid - Die Geschichte eines Fotomodells * Trees Are Blooming in Vienna * Tales from the Vienna Woods...

, Gerda Maurus

Gerda Maurus

-Selected filmography:* Spione * Tod über Shanghai * Der Doppelgänger * Daphne and the Diplomat -External links:...

, Herta Mayen, Elfie Mayerhofer, Marisa Mell

Marisa Mell

Marisa Mell was an Austrian actress who became a cult figure of 1960s Italian B-movies. She was born as Marlies Theres Moitzi in Graz, Austria.-Biography:...

, Edith Mill

Edith Mill

-Selected filmography:* Cordula * Auferstehung * Der rote Kreis * Peter und Sabine...

, Susi Nicoletti

Susi Nicoletti

Susi Nicoletti was a Bavarian-born actress best remembered today for over 100 supporting roles mostly in comedy films....

, Elisabeth Orth, Elfriede Ott, Eva Pawlik

Eva Pawlik

Eva Pawlik was an Austrian figure skater , a show star, an actress and the first European figure skater to be a TV figure skating commentator .-Childhood:Born in 1927, Pawlik was regarded as a child prodigy, able to jump a single axel and do a large number of spins...

, Ina Peters, Maria Perschy

Maria Perschy

Maria Perschy was an Austrian actress.Perschy was born in Eisenstadt, Burgenland, Austria and moved to Vienna at the age of 17 to study acting. After completing her education, she moved to Germany for more training, leading to a movie career. Her first major success came with Nasser Asphalt where...

, Paula Pflüger, Erika Remberg

Erika Remberg

Erika Remberg is an Austrian film actress. She appeared in 31 films between 1950 and 1970.She was born in Medan, Indonesia.-Selected filmography:* Um Thron und Liebe * Circus of Horrors...

, Annie Rosar

Annie Rosar

Annie Rosar was an Austrian stage and film actress who is best remembered today for her appearances in many Austrian comedy films from the 1930s to the early 1960s...

, Angela Salloker, Maria Schell

Maria Schell

Maria Margarethe Anna Schell was an Austrian/Swiss actress, who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the Venice Film Festival in 1956 for Gervaise....

, Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider

Romy Schneider was an Austrian-born German film actress who also held French citizenship.-Early life:Schneider was born Rosemarie Magdalena Albach in Nazi-era Vienna, six months after the Anschluss, into a family of actors that included her paternal grandmother Rosa Albach-Retty, her Austrian...

, Marianne Schönauer, Gretl Schörg

Gretl Schörg

Gretl Schörg was an Austrian operatic soprano and actress. She was particularly known for her performances in operettas...

, Christine Schuberth, Alma Seidler

Alma Seidler

Alma Seidler was an Austrian actress. She was the daughter of Ernst Seidler von Feuchtenegg, and had an extensive stage and screen career.- References :* at Österreich-Lexikon...

, Traudl Stark

Traudl Stark

Traudl Stark was a child actor in German movies. She was born as Gertraude Marianne Münzel to the secretary Siegfried Stark and Margarete Münzel. Her parents married later. Between 1945 and 1947 she also acted on stage in Vienna...

, Elisabeth Stiepl, Gretl Theimer, Helene Thimig, Jane Tilden, Nadja Tiller

Nadja Tiller

Nadja Tiller is an Austrian actress. She was one of the most popular German actresses of the 1950s and 1960s.She won the Miss Austria competition in 1949, a national beauty pageant for unmarried women in Austria. She had her major film debut in 1952 in 'Märchen vom Glück .In 1955, she acted...

, Luise Ullrich

Luise Ullrich

Luise Ullrich was an Austrian actress. She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress at the 1941 Venice Film Festival. She appeared in nearly 50 films between 1932 and 1981.-Selected filmography:...

, Ellen Umlauf, Lizzi Waldmüller

Lizzi Waldmüller

Lizzi Waldmüller was an Austrian actress and singer whose breakthrough to stardom came through her role as Rachel in the Willi Forst movie Bel Ami in 1939....

, Thea Weis, Senta Wengraf, Paula Wessely

Paula Wessely

Paula Anna Maria Wessely was an Austrian theatre and film actress. Die Wessely , as she was affectionately called by her admirers and fans, was Austria's foremost popular postwar actress....

, Gusti Wolf

Gusti Wolf

Gusti Wolf was an Austrian stage, film, and television actress.Born in Vienna, Wolf made her stage debut at the Burgtheater in 1934 and from there moved on to Ostrava, Munich, and Berlin...

, Yetta Zwerling

Yetta Zwerling

Yetta Zwerling Silverman Yiddish movie star during the 1930s and 1940s.-Early life:Zwerling was born in Kalievo, near Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary ; her father had a fruit business and was also a klezmer...

Males:
Peter Alexander, Leon Askin

Leon Askin

Leon Askin was an Austrian actor best known for portraying the character "General Burkhalter" on the TV sitcom Hogan's Heroes.-Early life:...

, John Banner

John Banner

John Banner , born Johann Banner, was an American film and television actor, who was born and died in Vienna, Austria....

, Theodore Bikel

Theodore Bikel

Theodore Meir Bikel is a character actor, folk singer and musician. He made his film debut in The African Queen and was nominated for an Academy award for his supporting role as Sheriff Max Muller in The Defiant Ones ....

, Alfred Böhm, Karlheinz Böhm

Karlheinz Böhm

Karlheinz Böhm is an Austrian actor. The son of conductor Karl Böhm, he is best known internationally for his role as Mark, the psychopathic protagonist of Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell...

, Klaus Maria Brandauer

Klaus Maria Brandauer

Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.-Personal life:...

, Hans Brenner, Siegfried Breuer

Siegfried Breuer

Siegfried Breuer was an Austrian stage and film actor and occasional film director and screenwriter.- Biography :...

, Siegfried Breuer jr., Heinz Conrads, Armin Dahlen, Theodor Danegger

Theodor Danegger

Theodor Danegger was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 73 films between 1932 and 1959.He was born in Lienz, Austria and died in Vienna, Austria.-Selected filmography:* 1. April 2000...

, Helmut Dantine

Helmut Dantine

Helmut Dantine was a film actor remembered for playing many Nazis in thriller films of the 1940s. The Vienna-born actor appeared uncredited in Casablanca early in his career .Dantine's father was the head of the Austrian railway system...

, Ludwig Donath

Ludwig Donath

Ludwig Donath , was an Austrian actor who appeared in many American films.-Life:Donath graduated from Vienna's Academy of Dramatic Art and became a prominent actor on the stage in Berlin. When Hitler came to power in 1933, he returned to Vienna and was active there in theater and film and until the...

, Joseph Egger

Joseph Egger

Joseph Egger was an Austrian character actor of western films. Besides acting he was a well-known music hall comedian, and he was famous for doing "tricks" with his beard....

, Carl Esmond

Carl Esmond

Carl Esmond was an Austrian stage actor, born in Vienna, Austria. His birth name was Willy Eichberger which he later changed to Charles Esmond and finally to Carl Esmond. Like many of his fellow actors, Esmond fled Nazi Germany to England during World War II. Esmond continued to appear on the...

, O. W. Fischer

O. W. Fischer

Otto Wilhelm Fischer was an Austrian actor. A leading man of German cinema, he began his career with Max Reinhardt's stage company....

, Karl Fochler, Robert Freitag

Robert Freitag

Robert Freitag was an Austrian-Swiss stage and screen actor and film director.- Life :...

, Erik Frey

Erik Frey

Erik Frey was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in over 110 films between 1936 and 1988.He was born and died in Vienna, Austria.-Selected filmography:* Eroica * 1...

, Hugo Gottschlich, Leopold Hainisch, Otto Hartmann

Otto Hartmann

Hauptmann Otto Hartman was a World War I flying ace credited with seven aerial victories.-Reference:...

, Karl Hellmer

Karl Hellmer

Karl Hellmer was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 92 films between 1932 and 1969.He was born in Vienna, Austria and died in Berlin, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Ungeküsst soll man nicht schlafen gehn...

, Paul Henreid, Hans Holt

Hans Holt

Hans Holt was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in over 100 films between 1935 and 1990.-Selected filmography:* Florentine * Dir zuliebe * 1. April 2000 * Almost Angels...

, Attila Hörbiger

Attila Hörbiger

Attila Hörbiger was an Austrian stage and movie actor.Hörbiger was born in Budapest, then Austria–Hungary, the son of engineer Hanns Hörbiger and younger brother of actor Paul Hörbiger...

, Thomas Hörbiger, Adrian Hoven

Adrian Hoven

Adrian Hoven was an Austrian actor, producer and film director. He appeared in 100 films between 1947 and 1981.He was born in Wöllersdorf, Austria as Wilhelm Arpad Hofkirchner and died in Tegernsee, Germany....

, Kurt Jaggberg, Michael Janisch, Curd Jürgens

Curd Jürgens

Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens.-Early life:...

, Alexander Kerst

Alexander Kerst

Alexander Kerst was an Austrian television actor.He was born in Kralupy nad Vltavou, Czech Republic and died in Munich, Germany.-Selected filmography:* Der Stern von Afrika...

, Dieter Kirchlechner, Eduard Köck, Walter Kohut

Walter Kohut

Walter Kohut was an Austrian film, television and theatre actor.He appeared in many Austrian and German films over a 30 year period and became known for playing shady characters...

, Friedrich von Ledebur

Friedrich von Ledebur

Graf Friedrich Anton Maria Hubertus Bonifacius von Ledebur-Wicheln was an actor who was known for Moby Dick , Alexander the Great and Slaughterhouse-Five .Ledebur was born in Austria-Hungary in 1900...

, Fred Liewehr, Hugo Lindinger, Robert Lindner, Theo Lingen

Theo Lingen

Theo Lingen , born Franz Theodor Schmitz, was a German actor, director and screenwriter. He appeared in over 230 films between 1929 and 1978, and directed 21 films between 1936 and 1960.-Life and career:...

, Eduard Linkers

Eduard Linkers

Eduard Linkers was an Austrian actor. He appeared in 75 films between 1936 and 1988.-Selected filmography:* Men Without Wings * Krakatit * Question 7 * The Marquise of O...

, Helmuth Lohner

Helmuth Lohner

Helmuth Lohner is an Austrian actor, theatre director, and from 2004 to 2006 director of the Theater in der Josefstadt....

, Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre

Peter Lorre was an Austrian-American actor frequently typecast as a sinister foreigner.He caused an international sensation in 1931 with his portrayal of a serial killer who preys on little girls in the German film M...

, Paul Löwinger

Paul Löwinger

Paul Löwinger was an Austrian actor, theatre manager and writer.While still a child, he performed on his parents' stage, the Löwinger Bühne. In 1938 they were probably the first theatre ensemble which performed in front of television cameras. The same year he married Liesl Meinhard...

, Ferdinand Marian

Ferdinand Marian

Ferdinand Marian was an Austrian theatre and film actor, best known for playing the leading character of Joseph Süß Oppenheimer in the Nazi propaganda film Jud Süß.-Life and career:...

, Franz Marischka, Josef Meinrad

Josef Meinrad

Josef Meinrad was an Austrian actor.Josef Meinrad was born Josef Moučka in Vienna, as the fourth and youngest child of the tramdriver Franz Moučka and his second wife Katharina. For his secondary education, he received a scholarship in a school run by Redemptorists in Katzelsdorf near Wiener...

, Kurt Meisel

Kurt Meisel

Kurt Meisel was an Austrian actor and film director. He appeared in 65 films between 1934 and 1994. He also directed 21 films between 1949 and 1984.Meisel was married to the actress Ursula Lingen...

, Fritz Muliar

Fritz Muliar

Fritz Muliar, born as Friedrich Ludwig Stand , was an Austrian actor who, due to his huge popularity, is often referred to by his countrymen as Volksschauspieler.- Biography :...

, Reggie Nalder

Reggie Nalder

Reggie Nalder was a prolific film and television character actor from the late 1940s to the early 1990s...

, Erich Nikowitz, Rolf Olsen, Karl Paryla, Nikolaus Paryla, Heinz Petters, Gunther Philipp

Gunther Philipp

-Selected filmography:* Der Schuß durchs Fenster * The Count of Luxemburg * Bombs on Monte Carlo * The White Horse Inn * Season in Salzburg * Mariandl * Mariandl's Homecoming...

, Eric Pohlmann

Eric Pohlmann

Eric Pohlmann was an Austrian theatre, film and television character actor.Born Erich Pollak in Vienna, Austria-Hungary, he was a classically trained actor who studied under the renowned director Max Reinhardt...

, Rudolf Prack

Rudolf Prack

-Selected filmography:* The Thief of Bagdad * Die Privatsekretärin * Ball at the Savoy * Mariandl * Mariandl's Homecoming * Holiday in St. Tropez * The Standard -External links:...

, Helmut Qualtinger

Helmut Qualtinger

Helmut Qualtinger was an Austrian actor, writer and cabaret performer.-Biography:Helmut Qualtinger was born in Vienna, Austria...

, Freddy Quinn

Freddy Quinn

Freddy Quinn is an Austrian singer and actor whose popularity within the German-speaking world soared in the late 1950s and 1960s. Similar to Hans Albers two generations before him, Quinn adopted the persona of the rootless wanderer who goes to sea but longs for a home, family and friends...

, Fred Raul

Fred Raul

Fred Raul , born Alois Greschitz, was an Austrian actor of Hungarian origin, best known for his marriage in 1968 to actress Marika Rökk....

, Raoul Retzer, Walter Reyer, Gregor von Rezzori

Gregor von Rezzori

Gregor von Rezzori , born Gregor Arnulph Hilarius d'Arezzo, was an Austrian-born German-language novelist, memoirist, screenwriter and author of radio plays, as well as an actor, journalist, visual artist, art critic and art collector...

, Rudolf Rhomberg

Rudolf Rhomberg

-Selected filmography:* Auferstehung * The Good Soldier Schweik * Tante Frieda * Wälsungenblut * Onkel Filser * Glorious Times in the Spessart * Wenn Ludwig ins Manöver zieht...

, Gerhard Riedmann

Gerhard Riedmann

Gerhard Riedmann was an Austrian film actor. He was married to the actress Eva Probst.-Selected filmography:* The Beggar Student * The Count of Luxemburg * Trees Are Blooming in Vienna * Waldrausch...

, Richard Romanowsky, Leopold Rudolf, Toni Sailer

Toni Sailer

Anton Engelbert "Toni" Sailer was an Austrian alpine ski racer, who is considered among the best the in the sport. He won three gold medals in alphine skiing at the 1956 Winter Olympics, becoming the only triple gold medalist from that Games and thus the most successful athlete in 1956...

, Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell is an Austrian-born Swiss actor who won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his role in Judgment at Nuremberg in 1961...

, Edmund Schellhammer, Otto Schenk

Otto Schenk

Otto Schenk is an Austrian actor, and theater and opera director.-Life and career:Schenk was born to Catholic parents. His father, a lawyer, had Jewish roots and therefore lost his job after the Anschluss in 1938...

, Karl Schönböck

Karl Schönböck

-Selected filmography:* Daphne and the Diplomat * Bismarck * Das Grosse Spiel * Titanic * Peter Voss, der Millionendieb * Feuerwerk * Der Kongreß tanzt * Love Now, Pay Later...

, Dietmar Schönherr

Dietmar Schönherr

Dietmar Schönherr is an Austrian film actor. He has appeared in 120 films since 1944. He is famous for playing the role of Major Cliff Allister McLane in the German science fiction series Raumpatrouille....

, Heinrich Schweiger

Heinrich Schweiger

Heinrich Schweiger was a Viennese film and stage actor who played leading roles at the Burgtheater on the Ring beginning in 1949...

, Karl Schwetter, Albin Skoda, Karl Skraup, Alfred Solm, Kurt Sowinetz, Frederick Stafford

Frederick Stafford

Frederick Stafford was an Austrian-born actor.The Czech actor Frederick Stafford , who spoke fluent Czech, German, English, French and Italian, was a leading man in European spy-movies....

, Viktor Staal

Viktor Staal

-Selected filmography:* Ride to Freedom * Spy for Germany * Der Jäger von Fall * The Standard -External links:...

, Ernst Stankovski, Erwin Strahl

Erwin Strahl

Erwin Strahl was an Austrian actor. He was married to the Italian actress Franca Paris.He died on 20 April 2011 at the age of 82.-Selected filmography:* Franz Schubert * Der Jäger von Fall...

, Otto Tausig, Georg Tressler, Alexander Trojan

Alexander Trojan

Alexander Trojan was an Austrian film actor. He appeared in 23 films between 1939 and 1977. He starred in the film Panoptikum 59, which was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival.-External links:...

, Friedrich von Ledebur

Friedrich von Ledebur

, Gregor von Rezzori

Gregor von Rezzori

, Peter Weck

Peter Weck

-Selected filmography:Actor* Mariandl * Almost Angels * Mariandl's Homecoming * The Cardinal * Marry Me, Cherie * When the Grapevines Bloom on the Danube...

, Kurt Weinzierl

Kurt Weinzierl

Kurt Weinzierl was an Austrian television actor. His remarkable character is the portraying of Franz Jägerstätter in the biopic of 1971.-Selected filmography:...

, John Wengraf

John Wengraf

John Wengraf was an Austrian actor.Wengraf emigrated to England in 1933 as the Nazis began their rise to power. Wengraf appeared unbilled in a couple of films, as well as in some of the first BBC live-television shows ever presented...

, Oskar Werner

Oskar Werner

-Early life:Born Oskar Josef Bschließmayer in Vienna, Werner spent much of his childhood in the care of his grandmother, who entertained him with stories about the Burgtheater, the Austrian state theatre, where he was accepted at the age of eighteen by Lothar Müthel. He was the youngest person ever...

, Rudolf Wessely

Rudolf Wessely

Rudolf Wessely is an Austrian actor.-Selected filmography:* Wahnfried * Derrick - Season 11, Episode 7: "Ein Spiel mit dem Tod"...

, Bernhard Wicki

1960s to 1980s

Females:
Helga Anders

Helga Anders

Helga Anders was an Austrian television actress.She was born to an Austrian father and a German mother and she grew up in Ruhpolding and Bielefeld after her parents' divorce. She made her stage debut at the age of eight...

, Monica Bleibtreu

Monica Bleibtreu

Monica Bleibtreu was an Austrian actress and screenwriter, best-known in the German-speaking world for her German film, television and stage roles.-Life and career:...

, Katharina Böhm

Katharina Böhm

Katharina Böhm is an Austrian actress. She played the role of Livia Burlando in the Italian TV series Il commissario Montalbano based on the character Salvo Montalbano from the novels created by Andrea Camilleri.She is the daughter of Karlheinz Böhm and Barbara Kwiatkowska-Lass, as well as the...

, Sybil Danning

Sybil Danning

Sybil Danning is an Austrian actress known for her many roles in B movies, science fiction films, and action films.-Early life:Danning was born in Ried im Innkreis, Austria as Sybille Johanna Danninger...

, Mercedes Echerer

Mercedes Echerer

Raina A. Mercedes Echerer is an Austrian film and stage actress, host of TV and radio shows, and politician.From 1999 to 2004 she was Member of the European Parliament for the Austrian Green Party, part of the European Greens, although she was not member of the party...

, Andrea Eckert

Andrea Eckert

Andrea Eckert is an Austrian stage and film actress, singer and documentary filmmaker.Born in Vienna, Eckert first studied literature in Paris, France, then decided on a stage career and trained with Dorothea Neff...

, Sonja Kirchberger

Sonja Kirchberger

Sonja Kirchberger is an Austrian actress.From 1974 to 1978 she was a dancer in the Ballet of the Opera in Vienna ....

, Dagmar Koller

Dagmar Koller

Dagmar Koller is an Austrian actress and singer.Born in Klagenfurt, she is recognized as the leading German language musical star of her time. She married Austrian journalist and politician, Helmut Zilk, in 1978, and became the first lady of Vienna while he served as mayor...

, Sissy Löwinger

Sissy Löwinger

Sissy Löwinger was an Austrian actress, director and theatre manager. She was the daughter of Austrian actor and director Paul Löwinger. She worked in public relations and dramaturgy for the family theatre "Löwinger Bühne" together with her brother, Paul. Later she also directed plays...

, Marianne Mendt

Marianne Mendt

Marianne Mendt is an Austrian jazz singer and actress, best known for her participation in the 1971 Eurovision Song Contest.- Early career :...

, Christine Ostermayer

Christine Ostermayer

Christine Ostermayer is an Austrian actress.-Selected filmography:* Derrick - Season 10, Episode 07: "Lohmanns innerer Frieden" -External links:*...

, Erika Pluhar

Erika Pluhar

Erika Pluhar is an actress, singer and author from Austria and was born on 28 February 1939 in Vienna.Erika Pluhar is the daughter of Anna and Dr Josef Pluhar. One of her sisters, Ingeborg G...

, Nina Proll

Nina Proll

Nina Proll is an Austrian actress. She has appeared in over 50 films and television shows since 1995. She starred in the film September, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival....

, Maria Rohm

Maria Rohm

Maria Rohm is an Austrian actress.She is famous for appearing in many exploitation films directed by Jesús Franco in the late 60s. She was married to film producer Harry Alan Towers from 1964 until his death in 2009...

, Eva Reuber-Staier, Elisabeth Trissenaar

Elisabeth Trissenaar

Elisabeth Trissenaar is an Austrian actress, who lives in Berlin.- Life and career :Trissenaar's father was the Dutchman Frans Trijssenaar. In 1964, she got her first role in the Bern Theatre, after studying at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna...

, Barbara Valentin

Barbara Valentin

Barbara Valentin was an Austrian actress. She worked in film, often with Rainer Werner Fassbinder.-Biography:...

Males: Herb Andress

Herb Andress

Herb Andress was an Austrian film and television actor, known particularly for his roles in the Rainer Werner Fassbinder film Lili Marleen and the same director's TV series Acht Stunden sind kein Tag .Herb Andress later played in the television...

,
Wolf Bachofner

Wolf Bachofner

Wolf Bachofner is an Austrian stage and film actor.In Vienna he got private lectures in speaking and studying parts. After this education he was engaged at the Landestheater Linz, in Vienna, Klagenfurt and also in Frankfurt and from 1997 on at the "Deutsches Schauspielhaus" in Hamburg...

, Helmut Berger

Helmut Berger

Helmut Berger is an Austrian-born German film and television actor. He is most famous for his work with Luchino Visconti, particularly in his performance as King Ludwig II of Bavaria in Ludwig, for which he received a special David di Donatello award.He appears primarily in European cinema, but...

, William Berger, Wolfram Berger

Wolfram Berger

Wolfram Berger is an Austrian actor.-External links:...

, Klaus Maria Brandauer

Klaus Maria Brandauer

Klaus Maria Brandauer is an Austrian actor, film director, and professor at the Max Reinhardt Seminar in Vienna.-Personal life:...

, Jacques Breuer

Jacques Breuer

Jacques Breuer is a German television actor.-Selected filmography:*2006 Im Tal der wilden Rosen-Vermächtnis der Liebe TV-movie*2006 Vergiss, wenn du lieben willst TV-movie...

, Georg Friedrich, Alfons Haider, Karlheinz Hackl

Karlheinz Hackl

Karlheinz Hackl is an Austrian actor whose varied career has included theater, television, film and cabaret performances as well as directing....

, Robert Hoffmann

Robert Hoffmann

Robert Hoffmann is an Austrian actor best known for his title role performance in The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe , his debut....

, Udo Jürgens

Udo Jürgens

Udo Jürgens is an Austrian composer and singer of popular music whose career spans over fifty years...

, Fritz Karl

Fritz Karl

Fritz Karl is an Austrian film, television and stage actor born in Gmunden, Upper Austria. He is one of the most busy Austrian actors.-Private Life:...

, Peter Kern

Peter Kern

Peter Kern is an Austrian actor, film director, screenwriter and producer. He has appeared in 70 films since 1957 and directed a further 23. He starred in the 1978 film Flaming Hearts, which was entered into the 28th Berlin International Film Festival...

, Werner Kreindl

Werner Kreindl

Werner Kreindl was an Austrian television actor.He appeared in around 75 TV programmes between 1966 and his death in 1992. He was probably best known for his appearances in SOKO 5113 from 1978 to 1992.- Filmography :...

, Erwin Leder

Erwin Leder

Erwin Alois Robert Leder is an Austrian actor. He is best known for his role as Chief Mechanic Johann in Das Boot, a 1981 feature film directed by Wolfgang Petersen about a mission of one World War II U-boat and its crew...

, Paulus Manker

Paulus Manker

Paulus Manker is an Austrian film director and actor, as well as an author and screenplay writer.Manker is considered one of the most maverick German-speaking actors, and polarizes public opinion like scarcely no other...

, Karl Merkatz

Karl Merkatz

Karl Merkatz is a well-known Austrian actor. He participated in numerous Austrian film productions and plays....

, Tobias Moretti

Tobias Moretti

Tobias Moretti is an Austrian actor.-Biography:Born in Gries am Brenner, Tyrol, Moretti is the eldest of four brothers. His brothers are named Tomas, Cristoph and Gregor. Since 1997 he has been married to Julia Moretti , an oboist...

, Werner Pochath

Werner Pochath

-Selected filmography:* The Long Day of Inspector Blomfield * Venus in Furs * The Pirates of the Pacific * Sky Riders * Casanova & Co. * Tempi di guerra * Born to Fight -External links:...

, Hanno Pöschl

Hanno Pöschl

Hanno Pöschl is an Austrian actor.Pöschl has enjoyed a long and prolific career working with directors Maximilian Schell, Peter Patzak, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Paulus Manker, Richard Linklater, and Götz Spielmann...

, Lukas Resetarits

Lukas Resetarits

Lukas Resetarits is an Austrian cabaret artist and actor, best known for playing police inspector Kottan in the Austrian TV series Kottan ermittelt....

, Sieghardt Rupp

Sieghardt Rupp

Sieghardt Rupp is an Austrian actor who has performed in film and television and later theatre....

, Walter Schmidinger

Walter Schmidinger

Walter Schmidinger is an Austrian actor.-Selected filmography:* The Pedestrian * Ice Age * Derrick - Season 3, Episode 10 "Das Bordfest" * The Serpent's Egg...

, August Schmölzer

August Schmölzer

August Schmölzer is an Austrian actor and writer.-Sources:*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0773590/...

, Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Arnold Alois Schwarzenegger is an Austrian-American former professional bodybuilder, actor, businessman, investor, and politician. Schwarzenegger served as the 38th Governor of California from 2003 until 2011....

, Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz

Christoph Waltz is an Austrian-German actor. He received international acclaim for his portrayal of SS-Standartenführer Hans Landa in the 2009 film Inglourious Basterds, for which he won the Best Actor Award at the Cannes Film Festival and the BAFTA, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild Award and...

, August Zirner

August Zirner

August Zirner is an American-Austrian actor, who starred in over 60 film productions. He is one of the most popular actors in Germany.-Biography:...

Since 1990s

Women: Muriel Baumeister, Mavie Hörbiger, Cindy Kurleto

Cindy Kurleto

Cynthia Kristina Kurleto is a model, actress, and a former MTV VJ in the Philippines. Her father is Austrian. She is known for being a commercial model and an FHM model in the Philippines and also for playing the role of Cassiopea in the hit series Encantadia and its prequel/sequel...

, Birgit Minichmayr

Birgit Minichmayr

Birgit Minichmayr is an Austrian actress and singer born in Linz, Austria. Birgit Minichmayr studied drama at the Max-Reinhardt-Seminar in Vienna.-Career:...

, Franziska Weisz

Franziska Weisz

Franziska Weisz is an Austrian actress. She starred in the film Hotel, which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival.- Cinema :...

Men:
Alfred Dorfer

Alfred Dorfer

Alfred Dorfer is an Austrian comedian, writer, and actor. He is one of the most well-known cabaret artists and comedians in Austria, not least due to his commitment to numerous Austrian film productions...

, Georg Friedrich, Arno Frisch

Arno Frisch

Arno Frisch is an Austrian actor. He has had central roles in two films by Michael Haneke, namely, Benny's Video and Funny Games.-External links:...

, Josef Hader

Josef Hader

Josef Hader is an Austrian comedian, actor, writer and producer.-Life and work:...

, Hansi Hinterseer

Hansi Hinterseer

Hans "Hansi" Hinterseer is an Austrian singer, actor, entertainer and former alpine skier.In the 1970s, Hans Hinterseer became famous as a member of the Austrian Ski Team. He won six alpine skiing World Cup races in Slalom skiing and Giant Slalom skiing. In 1973 he won the alpine skiing World Cup...

, Edgar Honetschläger

Edgar Honetschläger

Edgar Honetschläger is an Austrian artist, filmmaker and is the co-creator of Chickens Suit, a clothing range for chickens.-Personal life:...

, Karl Markovics

Karl Markovics

Karl Markovics is an Austrian actor and film director.He starred as Salomon Sorowitsch in Stefan Ruzowitzky's 2007 film The Counterfeiters, which was awarded the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year...

, Thomas Mikusz

Thomas Mikusz

Thomas Mikusz is an Austrian actor, model and photographer. He has crossed many genres of Entertainment appearing in television, film, animation, print and video games. After moving to Los Angeles in 2004 he received initial success with his appearance on the CBS show The Unit...

, Michael Niavarani

Michael Niavarani

Michael Niavarani is an Austrian-Persian stand-up comedian in the tradition of Austrian cabaret, an author and a TV and movie actor. Niavarani, whose comedic work often draws on his inter-cultural upbringing, is a central figure of the Austrian cabaret scene...

, Reinhard Nowak, Michael Ostrowski, Robert Stadlober

Robert Stadlober

Robert Stadlober is an Austrian actor and musician. His sister is Anja Stadlober, also an actress.-Biography:Robert Stadlober was born 3 August 1982 in the Austrian province of Carinthia and grew up in Puchfeld in the Steiermark and in Berlin...

Silent film era (1906-1930)

Early sound film era (1929-1959)

1960s to 1980s

Since 1990s

See also