Birth Place Matching "Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]" (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. Hedy Lamarr
Actress | Samson and Delilah
Hedy Lamarr, the woman many critics and fans alike regard as the most beautiful ever to appear in films, was born Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler in Vienna, Austria. She was the daughter of Gertrud (Lichtwitz), from Budapest, and Emil Kiesler, a banker from Lember (now known as Lviv). Her parents were both...
2. Fritz Lang
Actor | Le mépris
Fritz Lang was born in Vienna, Austria, in 1890. His father managed a construction company. His mother, Pauline Schlesinger, was Jewish but converted to Catholicism when Lang was ten. After high school, he enrolled briefly at the Technische Hochschule Wien and then started to train as a painter. ...
3. Anton Walbrook
Actor | The Red Shoes
This dark, debonair, dashing and extremely distinguished Austrian actor was christened Adolf Wohlbrück in Vienna, the scion of a family of circus clowns. He broke away easily from generations of tradition as the circus life had no appeal whatsoever to Walbrook.
Trained by the legendary director Max ...
4. Joseph Schildkraut
Actor | The Shop Around the Corner
An imposing Austrian import-turned-matinée idol on the silent screen, Hollywood actor Joseph Schildkraut went on to conquer talking films as well -- with Oscar-winning results. Inclined towards smooth, cunning villainy, his Oscar came instead for his sympathetic portrayal of Captain Alfred Dreyfus ...
5. Lotte Lenya
Actress | From Russia with Love
Lotte Lenya was a Tony Award-winning and Academy award-nominated actress and singer. While best remembered in the U.S. for her supporting role as Rosa Klebb in the classic Bond film From Russia with Love (1963), she is celebrated in Germany for her ground-breaking performances in the plays of Kurt ...
6. Celia Lovsky
Actress | Soylent Green
The daughter of Bretislav Lvovsky, a.k.a. Emil Pick (1857-1910), a minor Czech opera composer, Lovsky was born in Vienna, where she trained at the Royal Academy of Arts and Music. She was a rising stage star in Vienna and Berlin in 1929, when she met future husband Peter Lorre. Celia accompanied ...
7. Reggie Nalder
Actor | The Man Who Knew Too Much
With a mysterious past and a mouth marred by burns, Reggie Nalder has a unique, if under appreciated, place in the history of cinema.
Nalder was born Alfred Reginald Natzler in Vienna, Austria, the son of Ida (Herzog), from Safov, and Sigmund Natzler. His parents were from Jewish families The year ...
8. Leon Askin
Actor | One, Two, Three
As a nine-year-old boy, Leon Askin recited a 17-stanza eulogy for Emperor Franz Josef in front of the city hall in Vienna's 9th District. Little did the son of a salesman know then that he would one day be the student of Max Reinhardt and Louise Dumont, and discover Jura Soyfer while directing the ...
9. Walter Slezak
Actor | Lifeboat
Tall, portly Viennese character actor Walter Slezak simultaneously pursued two different careers after his arrival in America in 1930: one, as a star of musical comedy on the stage, and another, as a portrayer of villains, impish rogues or pompous buffoons on screen.
Walter was born in May 1902 in ...
10. Oskar Homolka
Actor | The Seven Year Itch
Because of his heavy generically "European" accent and Slavic-sounding surname (not an uncommon one among Czechs or Slovaks), many people assumed Oscar Homolka was Eastern European or Russian. In fact, he was born in Vienna (then Austria-Hungary), the multicultural capital of a large multi-ethnic ...
11. Erich von Stroheim
Actor | Sunset Blvd.
Erich von Stroheim was born Erich Oswald Stroheim in 1885, in Vienna, Austria, to Johanna (Bondy), from Prague, and Benno Stroheim, a hatter from Gleiwitz, Germany (now Gliwice, Poland). His family was Jewish.
After spending some time working in his father's hat factory, he emigrated to America ...
12. Helmut Dantine
Actor | The Story of Mankind
Actor/director/producer Helmut Dantine was born in Vienna, Austria on October 7, 1917. He made a name for himself as an actor during World War Two playing German soldiers and Nazi villains in Hollywood films, most notably in Mrs. Miniver (1942). The young Dantine was a fervent anti-fascist/...
13. Josef von Sternberg
Director | Dishonored
Josef von Sternberg split his childhood between Vienna and New York City. His father, a former soldier in the Austro-Hungarian army, could not support his family in either city; Sternberg remembered him only as "an enormously strong man who often used his strength on me." Forced by poverty to drop ...
14. Lilia Skala
Actress | Flashdance
Lilia Sofer was born on November 28, 1896, to Catholic Katharina Skala and Jewish Julius Sofer , in Vienna, Austria. Julius Sofer worked as a manufacturer's representative for the Waldes Kohinoor Company. Lilia had two sisters: Lisl (later known as renowned dance-therapy pioneer Elizabeth Polk); ...
15. Max Steiner
Composer | Gone with the Wind
Austrian composer Max Steiner achieved legendary status as the creator of hundreds of classic American film scores. He was born Maximilian Raoul Walter Steiner in Vienna, Austria, the son of Marie Mizzi (Hasiba) and Gabor Steiner, an impresario, and the grandson of actor and theater director and ...
16. Kurt Kasznar
Actor | Casino Royale
As a young man, Kurt Kasznar enrolled in Max Reinhardt's seminars. He came to the US in the mid-30s in "The Eternal Road," in which he played at least 12 roles. In 1941, he produced the New York show, "Crazy with the Heat." That same year, he was drafted into the army, where he was trained as a ...
17. Stefan Zweig
Writer | The Grand Budapest Hotel
Stefan Zweig was born on November 28, 1881 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a writer, known for The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014), Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948) and Marie Antoinette (1938). He was previously married to Friderike Maria Burger von Winternitz and Charlotte E. ...
18. Fred Essler
Actor | Alfred Hitchcock Presents
Fred Essler was born on February 13, 1895 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955), Suspicion (1957) and G.I. Blues (1960). He died on January 17, 1973 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA.
19. John Wengraf
Actor | 5 Fingers
A great number of Austrian and German actors were forced to flee their homeland during the rise of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis in the late 1930s only to find themselves smack dab in Hollywood pictures playing thoroughly nefarious Gestapo commanders. Viennese performer John Wengraf was one such actor...
20. Fritz Kortner
Actor | Die Büchse der Pandora
Fritz Kortner was born on May 12, 1892 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and director, known for Pandora's Box (1929), Somewhere in the Night (1946) and The Hands of Orlac (1924). He was previously married to Johanna Hofer. He died on July 22, 1970 in Munich, Bavaria, West ...
21. Norbert Schiller
Actor | Young Frankenstein
Norbert Schiller was born on November 24, 1899 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and writer, known for Young Frankenstein (1974), Hogan's Heroes (1965) and One Step Beyond (1959). He died on January 8, 1988 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
22. Carl Esmond
Actor | Sergeant York
Born Willy Eichberger in Vienna, Austria, he changed his name to the ethnically nondescript Carl Esmond and went on to become a well-regarded actor both here and in Europe, a career that sustained itself for nearly 50 years. He initially studied drama in Vienna at the State Academy of Dramatic Arts...
23. Otto Waldis
Actor | Judgment at Nuremberg
Born in Vienna, Austria, May 20th, 1901 as Otto Glucksmann-Blum, he began his acting career there while in his twenties, making his screen debut playing Franz in Fritz Lang's "M" in 1931 (billed as Otto Wernicke). Came to the United States in 1940. He worked frequently as a character actor in film ...
24. Mady Christians
Actress | Heidi
Mady Christians was born in Vienna, Austria. Destined to be in films in both Germany and the US, she started out as a stage actress but soon found new challenges in the world of cinema. Her first film was at the age of 24 when she appeared in Audrey (1916). She remained in German films for the next...
25. Maria von Trapp
Writer | Sen bir meleksin
Singer Maria Trapp was born on January 26, 1905, aboard a train, as her mother hurried from their village in the Tyrol to the hospital in Vienna, Austria. Her mother, Augusta (nee Rainer), died shortly after Maria was born, and her father, Karl Kutschera, died when she was 6 years old. As a ...
26. Josef Meinrad
Actor | Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin
Josef Meinrad was born on April 21, 1913 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and director, known for Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin (1956), Dulcinea del Toboso (1964) and Don Juan (1955). He was previously married to Germaine Renée Clement. He died on February 18, 1996 in ...
27. Liane Haid
Actress | Marquis d'Eon, der Spion der Pompadour
Liane Haid was a prima ballerina, dancer, singer, stage and film actress. As a child, she studied voice and dancing and played at the Viennese Open Ballet. She worked in Budapest and Vienna as a dancer. On stage, she was in Berlin and Vienna. She also made close to a hundred movies - silents and ...
28. Ludwig Donath
Actor | Torn Curtain
Ludwig Donath was born on March 6, 1900 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Vienna, Austria]. He was an actor, known for Torn Curtain (1966), Gilda (1946) and The Strange Death of Adolf Hitler (1943). He was previously married to Jean Montrose and Maria Josefa Camsky. He died on September 29, 1967 in ...
29. Charles Goldner
Actor | Brighton Rock
Charles Goldner was born on December 7, 1900 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Brighton Rock (1947), Third Time Lucky (1949) and Black Magic (1949). He was previously married to Maureen Leslie. He died on April 15, 1955 in London, England, UK.
30. Gustav Diessl
Actor | Die Büchse der Pandora
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 White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) ("The White Hell of Pitz Palu"). After ...
31. Paul Richter
Actor | Der Hexer
Paul Richter was born on April 1, 1895 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for The Ringer (1932), Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) and Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924). He was previously married to Elisabeth Hölzl and Aud Egede-Nissen. He died on December 30, 1961 in ...
32. Herbert Berghof
Actor | Harry and Tonto
Herbert Berghof was born on September 13, 1909 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Harry and Tonto (1974), Cleopatra (1963) and Red Planet Mars (1952). He was previously married to Uta Hagen and Alice Hermes. He died on November 5, 1990 in New York City, New York, ...
33. Otto Skorzeny
Self | Les grandes batailles
Otto Johann Anton Skorzeny was an Austrian-born German SS-Obersturmbannführer (lieutenant colonel) in the Waffen-SS during World War II. During the war, he was involved in a number of operations, including the removal from power of Hungarian Regent Miklós Horthy and the Gran Sasso raid which ...
34. Wolf Albach-Retty
Actor | Sieben Jahre Pech
Wolf Albach-Retty (1906-1967) was one of those actors full of charm, presence and wit the Ausrian and German cinema of yore knew the secret for. That he became an actor comes as no surprise considering that his mother, Rosa Albach-Retty, was a star of the Viennese stage. Of course, Magda Schneider,...
35. Tilly Losch
Actress | The Garden of Allah
Tilly Losch was born on November 15, 1903 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for The Garden of Allah (1936), Backstage (1937) and The Good Earth (1937). She was previously married to Henry Herbert, 6th Earl of Carnarvon and Edward James. She died on December 24, ...
36. Hertha Feiler
Actress | Frau im Strom
Hertha Feiler was born on August 3, 1916 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Frau im Strom (1939), Charley's Aunt (1956) and Rembrandt (1942). She was previously married to Heinz Rühmann. She died on November 1, 1970 in Munich, Bavaria, West Germany.
37. Friedrich Feher
Actor | Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
Friedrich Feher was born on March 16, 1889 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a director and actor, known for The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Robber Symphony (1936) and William Tell (1913). He was previously married to Magda Sonja. He died on September 30, 1950 in Stuttgart, ...
38. Jean Lenauer
Director | Coal at the Crossroads
Jean Lenauer was born on August 9, 1904 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a director and actor, known for Coal at the Crossroads (1955), My Dinner with Andre (1981) and In This Dark World (1955). He was previously married to Lora Hays. He died on October 23, 1983 in New York City, ...
39. Ady Berber
Actor | Der Mörder mit dem Seidenschal
Ady Berber was born on February 4, 1913 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and producer, known for Der Mörder mit dem Seidenschal (1966), The Secret Ways (1961) and The Return of Dr. Mabuse (1961). He was previously married to Anna Berber. He died on January 3, 1966 in ...
40. Rose Stradner
Actress | The Last Gangster
Pretty, soulful-eyed Austrian actress Rose Stradner was a rising 30s ingénue on the Viennese stage and in a few German film romances and musicals when MGM mogul Louis B. Mayer, who was in Europe searching for exotic talent, discovered her. Along with Greer Garson, Ilona Massey and Hedy Lamarr, she ...
41. Helene Thimig
Actress | The Hitler Gang
Helene Thimig was born on June 5, 1889 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for The Hitler Gang (1944), The Angel with the Trumpet (1948) and Cloak and Dagger (1946). She was previously married to Anton Edthofer, Max Reinhardt and Paul Johannes Kalbeck. She died on ...
42. Karl Bruck
Actor | Star Trek
Karl Bruck was born on March 16, 1906 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Star Trek (1966), Paint Your Wagon (1969) and The Young and the Restless (1973). He died on August 21, 1987 in Los Angeles, California, USA.
43. Ferdinand Marian
Actor | Jud Süß
Ferdinand Marian was born on August 14, 1902 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor, known for Jud Süß (1940), Uncle Kruger (1941) and Madame Bovary (1937). He was previously married to Maria Byk and Irene Saager. He died on August 7, 1946 in near Dürneck, Freising, ...
44. Franz Antel
Director | Der Bockerer 2
Franz Antel was born on June 28, 1913 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was a director and writer, known for Der Bockerer 2 (1996), Der Bockerer (1981) and Solang' die Sterne glüh'n (1958). He was previously married to Sibylla Antel, Sibylla Thin, Elisabeth Freifrau von Ettingshausen...
45. Robert Freitag
Actor | The Great Escape
Robert Freitag was born on April 7, 1916 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. He was an actor and director, known for The Great Escape (1963), Decision Before Dawn (1951) and Ein Monat auf dem Lande (1960). He was previously married to Maria Sebaldt and Maria Becker. He died on July 8, 2010 in...
46. Anton Karas
Soundtrack | Brick
Anton Karas was a mere entertainer in an Heurige (Viennese Wine Bar), but Carol Reed selected him as the musical director of "The Third Man" (1949). He was invited to London and lived with Reed. Reed treated him very well, but Karas was in a slump - then suddenly Reed rushed into Karas' room, and ...
47. Reginald Le Borg
Director | The White Orchid
The oldest of three sons, Reginald LeBorg majored in political economy at the University of Austria and studied musical composition for a year at Arnold Schoenberg's Composition Seminar. His education completed, LeBorg entered his father's banking business and, acting as the senior LeBorg's ...
48. Richard Oswald
Director | Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen
Director and producer of many German as well as a few American, British and French films, Richard Oswald started making films in 1914 and shortly formed his own production company. After making many successful films and discovering several important performers, he fled his homeland after the Nazi ...
49. Henry Lehrman
Producer | Why Sailors Go Wrong
Austrian-born Henry Lehrman entered the film industry in 1909 while working as a trolley conductor. Legend has it that he cornered director D.W. Griffith and claimed to be an agent for the French-based Pathe company, sent by them to work with Griffith. By the time Griffith found out that Lehrman's ...
50. Olga Fabian
Actress | Judgment at Nuremberg
Olga Fabian was born on September 15, 1885 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. She was an actress, known for Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), Waterfront (1944) and Victoria Regina (1961). She died in December 1983 in New York, USA.