André Mattoni
André Mattoni, a native Andreas Leo Heinrich Edler von Mattoni, ( born February 24, 1900 in Carlsbad, † 11 January 1985 in Vienna ) was an Austrian actor.
Life
He came from the Carlsbad spring water Dynasty Mattoni, the Theresianumgasse visited in Vienna and received his artistic training at the Burgtheater actor Franz Herterich. As an apprentice he gave 1922/23, made his debut at the Burgtheater.
Subsequently, he served at the Vienna Chamber games, then on tour in Usti nad Labem, Brno, Olomouc and bottom stream. In the fall of 1924 he came to Berlin, where he continued his theater work.
Already in his first year in Berlin, he received a movie role and became known a year later with a significant role in Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau's Tartuffe. He was then scheduled to star in Fritz Lang's Metropolis, but the role went to a few weeks of shooting, the long unsatisfactory, Gustav Fröhlich.
Mattoni embodied in several roles gallant lover, but was gradually forgotten. In 1933 he returned to Austria, and joined in the Josefstadt Theatre on on. Since 1938 he lived in Rome and worked in Italian films. In 1942 he went to Vienna, where he lived from then on. After the war, he worked briefly as a film production manager.
Between 1957 and 1964 he was a key employee of the conductor of the Vienna State Opera, Herbert von Karajan. In 1978 he joined himself to the opera on The Young Lord as an old lord.