Rudolf Sieber

Director | Writer

Date of birth : 02/19/1897

Date of death : 06/24/1976

City of birth : Aussig, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Ústí nad Labem, Czech Republic]

Husband of actress Marlene Dietrich, whom he introduced to Josef von Sternberg who in turn starred her in The Blue Angel (1930). Although they only lived together for the first five years of their marriage, Sieber and Dietrich never divorced. Sieber was living on a chicken ranch in the San Fernando Valley when he died following a lengthy illness.