Biography

Tall, blond and blue-eyed Austrian leading actor of somewhat limited range, usually seen in clean-cut romantic or heroic roles. Trained in Vienna, he began his career on stage at the Volkstheater. Staal entered films in 1935, soon becoming an important contract player at Ufa, partnering on screen many of the big name stars, including Zarah Leander, Anny Ondra and Hansi Knoteck (whom he married). After the war, he joined the ensemble of the Brecht Theater in Berlin. His screen career in the 50's, however, had lost much of its impetus.

The actor Viktor Staal attended an acting training in Vienna and got first engagements at small theaters. Finally he acted at the Volkstheater Wien and managed the breakthrough as an actor.

Viktor Staal became from 1935 on a popular actor and entertained the audience with successful movies.

After the war he first worked at the theater again before he was able to go on from his earlier successes in the film business.

After that his career dropped off, he only got seldom offers for movies. He then worked often for television.