- Doctor of Medicine since 1943. Race-car driver; winner of three Austrian national championship titles; founder of racing team, 1960.
- Fastest European breast-stroke swimmer 1937-1939. Held the Austrian 100 metre breast-stroke record for 14 years.
- He dubbed himself in the German version of Banana Joe (1982).
- Children: Peter (born 1943), Alexander (born 1967), Gero (born 1983).
- Comic star of post-war German cinema, adept at portraying all manner of silly or affectatious men from aristocrats to obsequious servants.
- Son of a Viennese veterinarian. He initially studied medicine and briefly worked as an intern at the University of Vienna. He then changed career course and attended the Reinhardt Seminar, as well as writing for cabaret. By 1949, he first appeared on screen in an acting role.
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