Film director
Although he was engaged to Maria Andergast , they finally didnt marry.
His father was a civil servant.
Married his fourth and last wife Sibylla, former secretary of actor Curd Jrgens , twice.
Was elected President of his favorite soccer club Vienna Wien.
Hold German citizenship between 1937 and 1960.
Used to carry high heels in his luggage which he occasionally placed in front of his hotel room, in order to live up his image as a womanizer.
In the early 1930s, he studied at the Academy of Film in Vienna.
During the sexual revolution in the late 1960s, he switched his interest to soft porn and directed some movies under the pseudonym "Franois Legrand".
Has a street named after him in his hometown Vienna.
A specialist in that specifically Austrian genre of "K. u. k." films, typically set among aristocratic circles of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
