Kurt Meisel (18 August 1912 – 4 April 1994) was an Austrian actor and

film director A film director controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfilment of that vision. The director has a key role in choosing the cast members, ...

. 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. He was born and died in Vienna, Austria, and is buried on the Vienna

Zentralfriedhof The Vienna Central Cemetery (german: Wiener Zentralfriedhof) is one of the largest cemeteries in the world by number of interred, and is the most well-known cemetery among Vienna's nearly 50 cemeteries. The cemetery's name is descriptive of its ...

Selected filmography

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Little Dorrit ''Little Dorrit'' is a novel by Charles Dickens, originally published in serial form between 1855 and 1857. The story features Amy Dorrit, youngest child of her family, born and raised in the Marshalsea prison for debtors in London. Arthur Cl ...

'' (1934) - Pit, sein Sohn * '' Marriage Strike'' (1935) - Loisl * ''

Schlußakkord ''Schlußakkord'' (''Final Accord'' or better ''Final Chord'';Sabine Hake, ''Popular Cinema of the Third Reich'', Austin: University of Texas, 2001, , p. 246, note 4: the title "refers to a musical term" whereas that of Sierck's 1939 French-languag ...

'' (1936) - Baron Salviany * '' The Court Concert'' (1936) - Leutnant Florian Schwälble * '' The Divine Jetta'' (1937) - Graf Eugen Opalla * '' Such Great Foolishness'' (1937) - Specht - Rundfunkansager * '' Love Can Lie'' (1937) - August Halfgreen * ''Spiel auf der Tenne'' (1937) - Andreas 'Anderl' Rössmaier * '' Another World'' (1937) - 2. Journalist * ''Der Schimmelkrieg in der Holledau'' (1937) - Thomas, Bräubursch * ''Frau Sylvelin'' (1938) - Herr von Roedern * '' Nanon'' (1938) - Hector * '' The Scoundrel'' (1939) - Ferdinand Scheibler * '' A Woman Like You'' (1939) - Felix Petersen * ''Eine kleine Nachtmusik'' (1940) - Max * '' The Fire Devil'' (1940) - Erzherzog Johann * ' (1940) - Francois Coogmann, Kunstmaler * ''Der Weg ins Freie'' (1941) - Ein Student * '' Menschen im Sturm'' (1941) - Oberleutnant Duschan * '' The Great King'' (1942) - Alfons * '' The Rainer Case'' (1942) - Leutnant von Benda * ''

Die goldene Stadt ''Die goldene Stadt'' ( en, The Golden City), is a 1942 German color film directed by Veit Harlan, starring Kristina Söderbaum, who won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress. Plot Anna, a young, innocent country girl (a Sudeten German), whose mothe ...

'' (1942) - Toni Opferkuch - Annas Vetter, der Anna verführt * '' Kolberg'' (1945) - Claus Werner * ''

Wozzeck ''Wozzeck'' () is the first opera by the Austrian composer Alban Berg. It was composed between 1914 and 1922 and first performed in 1925. The opera is based on the drama ''Woyzeck'', which the German playwright Georg Büchner left incomplete at h ...

'' (1947) - Wozzeck * ' (1949) - Karli Reindl * '' Love on Ice'' (1950) - Toni Staudtner * ''Der Teufel führt Regie'' (1951) - Poupoulle * '' Until We Meet Again'' (1952) - Willy Wagner * '' All Clues Lead to Berlin'' (1952) - Gregor Pratt * ''

Arena of Death ''Arena of Death'' (german: Die Todesarena) is a 1953 Austrian-German crime film directed by Kurt Meisel and starring Richard Häussler, Katharina Mayberg, and Friedl Hardt.Fritsche p. 247 The film's sets were designed by the art directors ...

'' (1953 - director) * ' (1954) - Figaro, valet * ''

Emil and the Detectives ''Emil and the Detectives'' () is a 1929 novel set mainly in Berlin, by the German writer Erich Kästner and illustrated by Walter Trier. It was Kästner's first major success and the only one of his pre-1945 works to escape Nazi censorship. T ...

'' (1954) - Herr Grundeis * '' They Were So Young'' (1954) - Pasquale * '' Hello, My Name is Cox'' (1955) - Oberkellner Youmac * ''

Jackboot Mutiny ''Jackboot Mutiny'' (german: Es geschah am 20. Juli, literally ''It Happened on 20 July'') is a 1955 German film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst about the 20 July Plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler. It features Bernhard Wicki as Stauffenberg. Ca ...

'' (1955) - SS Obergruppenführer * '' Operation Sleeping Bag'' (1955) - Oberleutnant Taut * ''Zwei blaue Augen'' (1955) - Eddi Witt * ' (1956) - Mann auf dem Schiff (uncredited) * ''

Vater sein dagegen sehr ''Vater sein dagegen sehr'' (English: "Being a father however, is hard") is a 1957 West German film directed by Kurt Meisel. Plot summary One day, writer Lutz Ventura receives news that his sister has died. She leaves behind two children, wh ...

'' (1957) - Schneider * '' Drei Mann auf einem Pferd'' (1957) - Freddy * '' The Cat'' (1958) - Capitaine Heinz Muller * ''

A Time to Love and a Time to Die ''A Time to Love and a Time to Die'' is a 1958 Eastmancolor CinemaScope drama war film directed by Douglas Sirk and starring John Gavin and Liselotte Pulver. Based on the book by German author Erich Maria Remarque and set on the Eastern ...

'' (1958) - Heini * ' (1958) - Mojmir * ' (1959) - Baron de Tavel * ''

Dorothea Angermann ''Dorothea Angermann'' is a 1959 West German drama film directed by Robert Siodmak and starring Ruth Leuwerik, Bert Sotlar and Alfred Schieske.Alpi p.357 It was adapted from the play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The film's sets were designed by the ...

'' (1959) - Mario Malloneck * ''

Court Martial A court-martial or court martial (plural ''courts-martial'' or ''courts martial'', as "martial" is a postpositive adjective) is a military court or a trial conducted in such a court. A court-martial is empowered to determine the guilt of me ...

'' (1959, Director) * ''

The Red Hand ''The Red Hand'' (German: ''Die rote Hand'') is a 1960 West German crime thriller film directed by Kurt Meisel and starring Paul Hubschmid, Hannes Messemer and Eleonora Rossi Drago.Bock & Bergfelder p.219 The film's sets were designed by the a ...

'' (1960, director) * '' The Longest Day'' (1962) - Capt. Ernst Düring (uncredited) * ' (1963, TV film) - Major Mokry * '' The Spendthrift'' (1964, director) * ' (1966) - Sapparov * ' (1966) - Semmelbein, the jeweler * '' Man on Horseback'' (1969) - Kanzler * '' Strogoff'' (1970) - Feofar Khan * ''

The Odessa File ''The Odessa File'' is a thriller by English writer Frederick Forsyth, first published in 1972, about the adventures of a young German reporter attempting to discover the location of a former SS concentration-camp commander. The name ODESSA i ...

'' (1974) - Alfred Oster * ''

Derrick A derrick is a lifting device composed at minimum of one guyed mast, as in a gin pole, which may be articulated over a load by adjusting its guys. Most derricks have at least two components, either a guyed mast or self-supporting tower, an ...

'' – Season 3, Episode 14: "Der Mann aus Portofino" (1976) - Ingo Parenge * ' (1986) - Eisenbeiss * ''

The Post Office Girl ''The Post Office Girl'' (german: Rausch der Verwandlung, which roughly means ''The Intoxication of Transformation'') is a novel by the Austrian writer Stefan Zweig. It tells the story of Christine Hoflehner, a female post-office clerk in a small t ...

'' (1988, TV film) - Hofrat Elkins

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* 1912 births 1994 deaths Male actors from Vienna Austrian male film actors Austrian male television actors Austrian film directors Austrian television directors German-language film directors 20th-century Austrian male actors Burials at the Vienna Central Cemetery Lingen family {{Austria-actor-stub