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Known as Curt Jurgens in the English-speaking world, he was born in Solln , Bayern, Germany. He began his working career as a journalist before becoming an actor at the urging of his actress wife, Louise Basler. He spent much of his early acting career on the stage in Vienna.

Critical of the Nazis in his native Germany, in 1944 he was shipped to a concentration camp for "political unreliables." Jürgens survived and after the war became an Austrian citizen. He continued with his acting career, becoming an international film star. His breakthrough screen role came in Des Teufels General (1955, The Devil's General) and he came to Hollywood following his appearance in the sensational 1956 Roger Vadim directed French film Et Dieu... créa la femme (And God Created Woman) starring Brigitte Bardot. In 1957, Jürgens made his first Hollywood film, The Enemy Below.

Jürgens maintained a home in FranceThe French Republic or France ( French: Republique francaise or France is a country whose metropolitan territory is located in western Europe, and which is further made up of a collection of overseas islands and territories located in other continents. but frequently returned to Vienna to perform on stage and that was where he died of a heart attack in 1982. He was interred in the city's ZentralfriedhofSituated in the district of Simmering, Hauptstrasse 230-244, the Zentralfriedhof is the largest and most famous cemetery among Vienna, Austria's nearly 50 cemeteries. Opened in 1874, this enormous cemetery spans 2. 4 square kilometers with 3. 3 million in.

Curd Jürgens also made a number of films in the French and German languages. Some of his other English language films include:

• Tamango (1957)
• The Inn of the Sixth HappinessThe Inn of the Sixth Happiness is a 1958 film based on the true story of Gladys Aylward, a tenacious United Kingdom maid, who became a missionary in China during the tumultuous years leading up to World War II. Directed by Mark Robson, the film stars Ingr (1958)
• The Blue Angel (1959)
• The Longest DayThe Longest Day is a book by Cornelius Ryan published in 1959, telling the story of D-Day, the first day of the World War II invasion of Normandy. The book takes its name from a quote by Erwin Rommel: ". the first 24 hours of the invasion will be decisive (1962)
• The Miracle of the White Stallions (1963)
• Lord JimLord Jim is a 1900 novel by Joseph Conrad. Stylistically, it is narrated by Marlow, a recurring character in the Conrad oeuvre, who is sympathetic to the protagonist, Lord Jim. Lord Jim is widely considered a post-colonial novel because it deals with Afri (1964)
• The Assassination BureauThe Assassination Bureau was a movie made in 1969 based on the unfinished book by Jack London. It stars Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, and Telly Savalas. In the movie, Miss Winter (Rigg), a journalist, discovers an organization devoted to killing for money know (1969)
• The Mephisto Waltz (1971)
• The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
• Goldengirl (1979)
• Teheran 43 (1981)