Karl Ludwig Diehl(1896-1958)

German leading actor, the son of an economist. He was trained at the Deutsches Theater in Berlin and first acted on stage in Wiesbaden and Munich. In films from 1929, he played the occasional romantic lead but specialised primarily in dignified, gentlemanly roles, as diplomats, landowners or physicians. Also often as prominent authority figures (Kaiser Friederich III, Lord Melbourne, Generaloberst Ludwig Beck).