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Lovely and shapely blonde bombshell Gloria Guida was born into a family of Emilia-Romagna origin on November 19, 1955 in Merano, Trentino-South Tyrol, Italy. Guida moved with her family to Bologna when she was a child. Gloria started out in the entertainment business as a singer at her father's dancing place on the Romagna Riviera. Guida then embarked on a modeling career and was named Miss Teenage Italy in 1974. Gloria subsequently went on to star primarily in a slew of racy and playful Italian sex comedies made throughout the 1970's. Guida married actor and singer Johnny Dorelli on May 15, 1991. She's the mother of a daughter, Guendalina.- Actor
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Tobias Moretti was born on 11 July 1959 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. He is an actor, known for Kommissar Rex (1994), A Hidden Life (2019) and The Hard Cops (2004). He has been married to Julia Moretti since 31 August 1997. They have three children.- Thomas Prenn was born on 10 June 1994 in Innichen, South Tyrol, Italy. He is an actor, known for Why Not You (2020), Great Freedom (2021) and Biohackers (2020).
- Actor
- Location Management
Austrian-born actor, photographer and champion Alpine skier. Horst Ebersberg was born in Kitzbühel to physician Dr. Lothar Ebersberg and his wife Annette. Both parents were skilled alpinists. Annette was also a close acquaintance of film maker Leni Riefenstahl. It had been intended that their son would follow his father into the medical profession. However, Horst (a close friend of the legendary Toni Sailer) excelled in sports at the Stella Matutina Jesuit School in Feldkirch, twice becoming Alpine Ski Master in 1955. With some assistance from the renowned Austrian mountaineer and explorer Heinrich Harrer, Horst was able to obtain a sports scholarship from the University of Denver in Colorado. As a sideline, he worked as a journalist and photographer for the Denver Post. Between 1963 and 1969, he featured as a supporting actor in many American films and TV series, often typecast as German soldiers. He made recurring appearances as different characters in 12 O'Clock High (1964), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1964), Combat! (1962), Hogan's Heroes (1965) and Mission: Impossible (1966).
Upon his return to Europe, Horst did further journalistic work for the illustrated magazines 'Quick' and 'Bunte'. He retired to his home town Kitzbühel in 1990. From 2007 to 2011, he published his own paper, the 'Kitzbüheler Beobachter'. Horst was twice married. He had two daughters (Hannah and Miriam Ebersberg) with his second wife Sabine (née Opperer)- Bernhard Schir was born on 24 January 1963 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. He is an actor, known for Vorstadtweiber (2015), Tatort (1970) and OP ruft Dr. Bruckner - Die besten Ärzte Deutschlands (1996).
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- Producer
Bernhard Forcher was born on 24 January 1979 in Lienz, Tyrol, Austria. He is an actor and writer, known for Fury (2014), Counterpart (2017) and The Man in the High Castle (2015).- Director
- Actor
Under the direction of Vittorio De Sica, Carlo Battisti left a remarkable mark in cinema history as the lead character in Umberto D. (1952), an Italian Neo-Realist classic about an elderly man who wanders through Rome with his dog Flike while trying to survive the Italy of post WWII. He was born on 10 October, 1882 in Trento - then an Austro-Hungary territory that later became part of Italy during the war years.
He wasn't an actor by trade, in fact, he was a Linguistic professor. At the age of 70, De Sica discovered Battisti and chose him for the lead role in Umberto D. (1952), who didn't want a professional actor for the role, wanting to give a more realistic approach to the story just like Rossellini did with his films in the late 1940's. Battisti received excellent reviews and praise from audiences who loved his heart-breaking performance and his memorable scenes with his loyal companion, the cute dog Flike.
After the movie, Battisti never appeared on another movie and returned to teaching until his retirement some years later. He died in 1977, aged 94.- Ronja Forcher was born on 7 June 1996 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. She is an actress, known for Der Bergdoktor (2008), Im Tal des Schweigens (2004) and SOKO Kitzbühel (2001). She has been married to Felix Briegel since August 2022.
- Actor
- Editor
- Stunts
Neil Malik Abdullah was born in Austria, raised in Germany and has Arabic-Turkish roots with a Greek touch.
The talented actor is fluent in English, Arabic, German and has basic knowledge in Turkish. He started his career with training at the "Schule für Schauspiel Hamburg" in Germany. He also took classes at HB Studio in New York, the Sanford Meisner Center, the Meisner Studio and at Stephanie Feurys in Los Angeles.
The committed actor worked in international projects such as "The Hamburg Cell" and "A most wanted man". Neil Malik Abdullah performed also at the Arab-American Comedy Festival in New York. In 2013 the feature film "Kaddisch for a friend" with Neil in a supporting role was a winner at the German movie award.- Actor
- Casting Department
Igo Sym was born in Innsbruck, Austria in 1896. Before working as an actor he served from 1918-1921 in the Polish army. After working in silent films he was engaged by the theater in Warsaw, where he often appeared with his "Singing Saw".
When in 1939 the Germans ran over Poland, Sym started to collaborate with them. At this time many Polish people where head-hunted, and many of them where celebrities. Sym worked for the Gestapo and trapped some of these searched people (among them was the famous singer Hanka Ordonówna). When the Polish underground-gouvernment found out about Sym's contacts with the Gestapo, he was executed in his apartment on March 7th 1941.- Elke Deuringer was born on 13 November 1942 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. She is an actress, known for Teenage Intimacies (1973), Teenage Playmates (1974) and Der Ostfriesen-Report (1973).
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- Director
- Writer
Luis Trenker (born in St-Ulrich, southern Tyrol (now Italy) as Alois Franz Trenker) was a film director, singer, author, ski champion and mountain climber, wood-carver, stage and film actor. He went to school in Bolzano to become a carver artist. From 1912 to 1914 he studied Architecture.
He fought in WWI as an officier in the Dolomite. After that, he made a documentary film "Wunder des Schneeschuhs" (1921) with Arnold Fanck. In 1934 he worked in Hollywood, but went back to Europe. In 1966 he worked for TV with the ski champion Toni Sailer in "Luftsprünge". He lived with his wife in Meran, kept an office in Munich, wrote his Memories ("Alles gut gegangen" ("Everything went swell")). He died on Pneumonia and heart attack in a hospital in Bolzano.- Actress
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Katharina Straßer was born in 1984 in Rum, Tyrol, Austria. She is an actress, known for Fast Forward (2009), The Way to Live (2011) and Griechenland (2023). She is married to Thomas Stipsits. They have one child.- Director
- Writer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Peter Weissflog was born in 1947 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. He is a director and writer, known for Glückliche Reise (1992), Der Schatz im Niemandsland (1987) and Der Millionenbauer (1979).- Theo Rufinatscha was born on 30 October 1936 in Obermais, Meran, South Tyrol, Italy. He is an actor, known for Tatort (1970), Undine (1992) and Verkaufte Heimat (1989).
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- Actor
He studied film directing in Vienna (Univ. of Performing Arts). In 1994 he emigrated to France and wrote a thesis about French movie director Ciryl Collard in Université Der Paris VIII and graduated B.A.(Mag. art). Actually Hubert teaches film classes in Europe and the United Stated while he directs his documentaries. The last two documentaries he wrote and directed were awarded twelve International Film Prizes. His most successful movies, like "The Kisangani diaries" and "Darwin's nightmare", deal with the consequences of globalization in the third world, specially in Africa.- Walter Unterweger was born in Lienz, Tirol and raised in Klagenfurt. His father works as a instructor and artist, his mother is a teacher. In 2000, Walter became quite popular while being one of the candidates in Germany's 2nd Big Brother season. He had to leave the Big Brother container one month before the final show. Walter quit his studies for medicine and German language and literature after a role in the Marienhof series has been offered to him. In 2002, he left the series.
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- Editor
Sebastian Meise was born in 1976 in Kitzbühel, Tyrol, Austria. He is a director and writer, known for Great Freedom (2021), Still Life (2011) and Prises de vues (2003).- Actor
- Soundtrack
Walther Reyer was born on 4 September 1922 in Hall, Tyrol, Austria. He was an actor, known for Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin (1956), The Tiger of Eschnapur (1959) and Journey to the Lost City (1960). He was married to Angela, Erika Remberg, Gretl Elb and Claudia. He died on 5 September 1999 in Innsbruck, Austria.- Austrian-born Max Grießer was a famous Bavarian folk-play actor and has played many roles on "Komödienstadel", a famous Bavarian folk-play that usually is performed in the "Kleine Komödie" in Munich, Germany. For some years he personified "Father Barnabas" during the famous Salvator celebrations on Nockherberg in Munich where Bavarian and German politicians are mocked each March when the new brand of the strong beer "Salvator" is issued.
- Gene Rizzi was born Eugenio Valentino Rizzi on April 1, 1913, in the tiny village of Tret, Austria (now Italy), near the Italian Alps. His father died seven months earlier after returning to Austria from the United States. Gene's mother, Anna Maria Flor, raised him and his three siblings by herself and eventually moved the family back to Rock Springs, Wyoming, where the Rizzi family had originally had sheep ranching interests. Traveling to and from Europe many times as a youth, Gene settled in Vienna, Austria, to attend the Music Conservatory of Vienna as a violin student. After graduating from that prestigious institution, he began a career as a professional concert violinist. After playing violin in Europe, he moved back to the US to help support his mother and eventually left professional music in favor of an acting career. The Great Depression had just passed its peak and there was a brighter future ahead in Hollywood, and Gene headed there. He began his film career playing tough guys and thugs because of his rugged good looks, and appeared in many features, serials and shorts. These parts included the stranger in The Outlaw (1943), the young tough who discovers to his regret that his draw is not as quick as Billy the Kid's. He also played "Corey" in The Green Hornet (1940) serial. Gene eventually moved on to more substantive parts, appearing with Tyrone Power in Crash Dive (1943) (interestingly, his character in that film was named Rizzi). Other pictures, such as Ten Gentlemen from West Point (1942), took advantage of Gene's abilities with the violin. Still others utilized his expressive, youthful face, as in his uncredited role in To Be or Not to Be (1942) where he utters the Polish RAF pilot's simple pensive line, "Warsaw!" In all of his film appearances, Gene supported the main characters with vigor and intelligence. In the early days of World War II, he was drafted into the US Army and served with distinction with the 396th Signal Corps in China. Shortly after his return to the US at the end of the war, Gene left the film business to devote his life to a new wife and future family. On July 12, 1947, he married Barbara Lee Allen in North Hollywood, California. In 1948, 1951 and 1952 three children were born to the Rizzi family. Gene never discussed his film career with most of his friends and family. Interestingly, though, even his grandchildren could pick out his distinctive voice from old Saturday afternoon replays of his movies. When he died on July 24, 2001, Gene Rizzi left a short film legacy that was perhaps outweighed by his commitment to family. A true artist with many skills, he was first and foremost a husband and father.
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- Editorial Department
Monika Willi was born on 29 May 1968 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. She is an editor, known for Tár (2022), The White Ribbon (2009) and Untitled (2017).- Cinematographer
- Director
- Writer
1973 founded own production company TTV Film. Extensive work as a documentary film-maker. 1977 building of experimental video studio. Work with and technical support for various young film-makers working under TTV Film. 1980/81 increasing work in TV plays, screen adaptations with various authors, director of photography for feature films and work as director. Participation at more than 20 int. festivals, numerious austrian & int. awards.- Actor
- Production Manager
- Writer
Martin Walch was born on 27 March 1959 in Hall, Tyrol, Austria. He is an actor and production manager, known for Eine Liebe am Gardasee (2006), Agathe kann's nicht lassen (2005) and Die Rosenheim-Cops (2002).- Dominik Maringer was born in 1978 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. He is an actor, known for The Space Between the Lines (2019), Tatort (1970) and Morden im Norden (2012).
- Harald Schrott was born on 12 October 1967 in Mutters, Tyrol, Austria. He is an actor, known for Fay Grim (2006), Lou Andreas-Salomé, The Audacity to be Free (2016) and Allein gegen die Angst (2006). He is married to Regine Zimmermann. They have three children.
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- Soundtrack
Anton "Toni" Sailer was born on 17 November 1935 in Kitzbühel, Austria and is considered one of the best Alpine skiers in history. At the 1956 Olympic Winter Games, he won all three Alpine events (downhill, giant slalom, slalom), which made him the first athlete to do so. After he had retired in 1959, he appeared in several movies such as Das Blaue vom Himmel (1964), co-starring Zarah Leander. Despite his show talents, the Austrians' national hero decided to coach the Austrian ski team from 1972 to 1976. In 1985, the International Olympic Committee awarded him the Olympic Order.- Born in Austria, and raised in Italy by French speaking parents, Natalie speaks 4 languages. Having lived mostly in Los Angeles, Natalie recently made her 2nd home in New York City, and is currently touring with 1st National Broadway Tour of Dirty Rotten Scoundrels as the understudy for the lead role: Christine Colgate. Proud sister of Elle Nucci, and Danny Nucci. Parents are Marinette and Arturo.
- Guntram Brattia was born on 21 November 1966 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. He was an actor, known for Paradiso - Sieben Tage mit sieben Frauen (2000), Tatort (1970) and Venus Talking (2001). He died on 19 September 2014 in near Markt Schwaben, Bavaria, Germany.
- Hardly remembered today, the dark-haired, wide-eyed Ressel Orla came to stardom quickly in the 1910s in Germany after her first major role in The Perfect Thirty-Six (1914) (released in America as The Perfect Thirty-Six). With no offers coming in for stage work, her original vocational pursuit, she continued film work with much success. An expressive and beautiful woman with a dramatic Madonna-like face, she was a star for several years but fell out of popularity in the twenties. At the time of her death, she had fallen on hard times, was no longer acting, and was barely forty. She is undoubtedly remembered best for her performance as the treacherous Lio Sha in Fritz Lang's two part film series The Spiders (1919-20), one of her few performances that are widely available for viewing today.
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- Actress
- Soundtrack
Sabine Kapfinger was born on 1 January 1974 in Niederndorf, Tyrol, Austria. She is an actress, known for Tatort (1970), Helden in Tirol (1998) and Hubert von Goisern - Brenna tuat's schon lang (2015).- Actress
- Soundtrack
Mirjam Weichselbraun was born on 27 September 1981 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. She is an actress, known for Dancing Stars (2005), Big Spender (2012) and Die Rosenkönigin (2007).- Actor
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- Writer
Rainer Egger was born in 1960 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. He is an actor and director, known for The Red Violin (1998), Woman in Gold (2015) and Die fünfte Jahreszeit (1982).- Annelies Reinhold was born on 5 January 1917 in Meran, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary [now Merano, Alto Adige, Italy]. She was an actress, known for Violanta (1942), Die unheimliche Wandlung des Alex Roscher (1943) and Duell mit dem Tod (1949). She was married to Paul May. She died on 6 January 2007 in Oldenburg, Germany.
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Daniela Knapp was born in 1972 in Schwaz, Tyrol, Austria. She is a cinematographer, known for The Poll Diaries (2010), Knockin' on Heaven's Door (1997) and The Edukators (2004).- Günther Steiner was born on 7 April 1965 in Merano, South Tyrol, Italy. He is married to Gertraud Steiner. They have one child.
- Barbara Angely was born on 9 April 1943 in St. Johann, Tyrol, Austria. She was an actress, known for Blue Demon contra cerebros infernales (1968), Las puertas del paraíso (1971) and Muñecas peligrosas (1969). She died on 26 August 2008 in Santa Barbara, California, USA.
- Marilda Donà was born on 19 November 1955 in Meran, South Tyrol, Italy. She is an actress, known for La nouvelle malle des Indes (1981), Speed Cross (1980) and Ritornano quelli della calibro 38 (1977).
- After graduating from school, Berger did an apprenticeship as a motor vehicle mechanic. In 1978 he made his debut as a racing driver. This was followed by participation in the International Alfasud Cup. He took part in the European Touring Car Championship with a BMW. His career as a racing driver led him to Formula 3. On August 19, 1984, Gerhard Berger switched to the premier class of automobile racing, to Formula 1. From this year, 1984, he drove his first Formula 1 for the German ATS team -Run. The following year he drove an Arrows BMW in this ranking.
Gerhard Berger completed all 16 Grand Prix races and was able to get his first world championship point. The following year, 1986, he was signed to Benetton-BMW. There he achieved the greatest success of his career: he achieved third place at the Imola Grand Prix. Afterwards, Berger changed racing teams again. From 1987 he started for Ferrari. It was his most successful season with two wins. He came fifth in the drivers' world championship standings. The following year the racing driver improved further.
In the World Championship Drivers' Championship he took third place behind the Brazilian driver Ayrton Senna and the Frenchman Alain Prost. In 1989, Berger had a serious accident at the Imola Grand Prix. He suffered burn injuries to his hands. Gerhard Berger was able to claim four Grand Prix victories within three years. In 1990, the Austrian drove under contract with McLaren, becoming a teammate of the famous Ayrton Senna. This season Berger was able to maintain his performance and finished third in the world championship standings.
After just three racing seasons, Berger left the McLaren team and moved back to Ferrari. In the 1994 season he was just as successful as in 1990 and finished third in the drivers' world championship standings. In front of him were the German pilot Michael Schumacher and the Briton Damon Hill. In 1995, Berger left Ferrari and then drove for the Benetton Renault racing team. He took the place of Michael Schumacher, who in return was signed by Ferrari. In 1996, Berger slipped to sixth place in the world driver rankings at the end of the season. In 1997 he won the German Grand Prix at the Hockenheim Ring.
That same year, his father died in a plane crash. He then became the majority owner of the Austrian logistics company Berger. A company that was founded in 1961 by his father, Johann Berger. Berger then announced the end of his active career as a racing driver. His track record includes a total of 210 races, of which he won 10 events. He took pole position 13 times and collected 385 championship points. After his resignation, he became motorsport director at BMW, which returned to Formula 1 with Williams in 2000. There he led the BMW Williams F1 team until 2003, with Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya as drivers.
With Gerhard Berger as motorsport director, BMW became runner-up in the constructors' championship. In the fall of 2003 he withdrew into private life. From 2006 to 2008 he returned to Formula 1 as team manager of the new Toro Rosso racing team. - Florian Lettner was born in 1988 in St.Johann, Tyrol, Austria. He is a writer, known for taff (1995), Die große Chance (2011) and Galileo (1998). He has been married to Maria Lettner (born: Ciccarese) since 24 September 2020. They have one child.
- Fabian Aichner was born on 21 July 1990 in South Tyrol, Trentino-Alto Adige/Südtirol, Italy. He is an actor, known for WWE NXT (2010), WWE Smackdown! (1999) and WWE: NXT UK (2018).
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Nina Hartmann was born on 27 November 1981 in Rum, Tyrol, Austria. She is an actress and writer, known for Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015), Match Me If You Can (2022) and Ex - Eine romantische Komödie (2008).- Writer
- Actor
- Director
Felix Mitterer was born on 6 February 1948 in Achenkirch, Tyrol, Austria. He is a writer and actor, known for Tatort (1970), Die Piefke-Saga (1990) and The Galapagos Affair.- Actor
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Hermann Brix was a singer, stage and film actor. He studied medicine and Germanistik in high school and university. Then he took private acting school. By 1936 he made his debut in Prague. From there he gained a contract with the Kamerspiele Theater in Munich. In 1939 he played Emperor Franz Joseph in "Maria Ilona". After the premiere of that film in Vienna, he signed a contract with Tera Film, but, nevertheless, he was more interested in stage theater and radio. He began to work on novels and in 1966 he got the title of Professor. From then on he worked as a professor and lived in Innsbruck, Tirol, Austria.- Actor
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Immanuel Degn was born on May 20th, 1982 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria to Irene Degn (a teacher) and to Eckhart Degn (also a teacher and artist). So it was not so far off that Immanuel would also pursue to be an artist himself. At the age of 8 he got a JVC camera of his grandfather and started to film stuff in the garden and surroundings. Later on he made short films which he added in that camera, just putting take after take in the right order to have a finished short film right there on one tape. With the age of 15 he started a sculptor school just to realize months later, that he wanted to became a camera operator. But the audition at the company he wanted to work for failed and so he finished the sculptor school of 4 years. During those years of making art he discovered more and more his passion for acting, after being in some plays. In 2001 at the age of 19 he started to go to an acting school and successfully finished four years later. Meanwhile he made his first movie called "Spiegel's Streichkleber" with his lifelong friend Roland Niederhuber and his acting couch Charlie Simon. In 2005 he presented his vampire movie "Exhuminus Exum - Die Macht zwischen Leben und Tod" in the Metropol Multiplexx (Innsbruck). He shot the entire film with his colleagues from the acting school. After making films for several years he founded the film production company "Immigration Pictures" in 2013. Immanuel's focus is on making movies for an international audience.- Editor
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Evi Romen was born on 26 April 1967 in Bozen, South Tyrol, Italy. She is an editor and writer, known for Why Not You (2020), Tatort (1970) and Casanova Variations (2014).- Martin Leutgeb was born on 25 August 1966 in Schwaz, Tyrol, Austria. He is an actor, known for Die Bergretter (2009), Die Steintaler ...von wegen Homo sapiens (2014) and Schlawiner (2011).
- Ludwig Bemelmans was born on 27 April 1898 in Meran, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary [now Merano, Alto Adige, Italy]. He was a writer, known for Shirley Temple's Storybook (1958), Yolanda and the Thief (1945) and The Philco Television Playhouse (1948). He was married to Madeline Freund. He died on 1 October 1962 in New York City, New York, USA.
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Yervant Gianikian was born in 1942 in Meran, Tyrol, Austria-Hungary [now Merano, Alto Adige, Italy]. He is a director and editor, known for Babaric Land (2013), From the Pole to the Equator (1987) and Oh! Man (2004).- Maresa Hörbiger was born on 29 January 1945 in Seefeld, Tyrol, Austria. She is an actress, known for Snow White (1971), Tatort (1970) and Romy (2009). She was previously married to Dieter Witting.