- Although he was engaged to Maria Andergast, they finally didn't marry (1949).
- His father was a civil servant.
- Married his fourth and last wife Sibylla, former secretary of actor Curd Jürgens, twice.
- Was elected President of his favorite soccer club Vienna Wien (1964).
- Hold German citizenship between 1937 and 1960.
- Used to carry high heels in his luggage which he occasionally placed in front of his hotel room, in order to live up his image as a womanizer.
- In the early 1930s, he studied at the Academy of Film in Vienna.
- During the sexual revolution in the late 1960s, he switched his interest to soft porn and directed some movies under the pseudonym "François Legrand".
- Has a street named after him in his hometown Vienna.
- A specialist in that specifically Austrian genre of "K. u. k." films, typically set among aristocratic circles of the Austro-Hungarian monarchy.
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