Karl Walter Diess was born on January 25, 1928 in Salzburg, Austria. He was an actor, known for Der trojanische Krieg findet nicht statt (1964), Wallenstein (1978) and Ludwig van Beethoven: '...in allem streng die Wahrheit' (1970). He was married to Silvia Simon and Miriam Spoerri. He died on March 30, 2014 in Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany.
