Liesl Handl

Liesl Handl was born on Oct 29, 1917 in Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. Liesl Handl's big-screen debut came with Margin for Error directed by Otto Preminger in 1943. Liesl Handl is known for Hangmen Also Die! directed by Fritz Lang, Brian Donlevy stars as Dr. Franticek Svoboda and Walter Brennan as Prof. Stephen Novotny. The upcoming new movie Liesl Handl plays is The Hitler Gang which will be released on Dec 15, 1944.

Elisabeth (Liesl) Handl, a young Austrian dancer-turned actress, married Austrian comedy writer-producer Walter Reisch, whose greatest Viennese film success was Maskerade (1934). In that very popular comedy, star Paula Wessely played a prim secretary named Leopoldine "Poldi" Dur, whose (fictional) name happens to coincide with the equally fictional name of a scandalous nude model -- leading to numerous misunderstandings and complications.