Franz Josef Gottlieb

Franz Josef Gottlieb (1 November 1930 – 23 July 2006) was an Austrian film director and screenwriter. He directed 60 films between 1959 and 2005. He also directed the children's series Ravioli in 1983; it aired on ZDF in 1984. He was born in Semmering, Austria and died in Verden an der Aller, Germany of a brain tumor, at age 75.

Selected filmography

Mikosch of the Secret Service (co-director Franz Marischka, 1959) My Niece Doesn't Do That (1960) Season in Salzburg (1961) The Forester's Daughter (1962) The Curse of the Yellow Snake (1963) The Black Abbot (1963) The Secret of the Black Widow (1963) The Seventh Victim (1964) The Curse of the Hidden Vault (1964) The Phantom of Soho (1964) Wild Kurdistan (1965) Kingdom of the Silver Lion (1965) A Holiday with Piroschka (1965) Spy Today, Die Tomorrow (1967) (1969) When You're With Me (1970) When the Mad Aunts Arrive (1970) Aunt Trude from Buxtehude (1971) (1971) (1971) The Mad Aunts Strike Out (1971) Rudi, Behave! (1971) Trouble with Trixie (1972) Crazy - Completely Mad (1973) No Sin on the Alpine Pastures (1974) The Secret Carrier (1975) Lady Dracula (1977) Popcorn and Ice Cream (1978) She's 19 and Ready (1979) Mandara (1983, TV miniseries) (1987, TV film) Death Stone (1987) (1987) (1988, TV film) (1990, TV miniseries) Die Liebe eines Priesters (2005, TV film)