---
name: "Fritz von Friedl"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/fritz-von-friedl"
fi1m_id: "fritz-von-friedl"
imdb_id: "nm0902264"
tmdb_id: 2003681
wikidata_id: "Q1396327"
roles: ["Cinematographer"]
born: "8 April 1901"
died: "3 December 1971"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T02:58:02.070915+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Fritz von Friedl

## Identity

Fritz von Friedl

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/fritz-von-friedl
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** fritz-von-friedl
- **IMDb ID:** nm0902264
- **TMDB ID:** 2003681
- **Wikidata ID:** Q1396327
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_von_Friedl_(cinematographer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1396327, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0902264/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2003681

Cinematographer. Born 8 April 1901 in Písek, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]. Died 3 December 1971.

## Details

- **Work:** Cinematographer
- **Born:** 8 April 1901, Písek, Bohemia, Austria-Hungary [now Czech Republic]
- **Died:** 3 December 1971
- **Frequently works with:** [Albert Kling](https://film.one/person/albert-kling.md), [Alexander von Lagorio](https://film.one/person/alexander-von-lagorio.md), [Andor von Bàrsy](https://film.one/person/andor-von-barsy.md), [Erich Nitzschmann](https://film.one/person/erich-nitzschmann.md), [Ernst Kunstmann](https://film.one/person/ernst-kunstmann.md), [Guzzi Lantschner](https://film.one/person/guzzi-lantschner.md), [Hans Karl Gottschalk](https://film.one/person/hans-karl-gottschalk.md), [Hans Scheib](https://film.one/person/hans-scheib.md)
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fritz_von_Friedl_(cinematographer), https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1396327, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0902264/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2003681

## Biography

Fritz von Friedl (born Friedrich Waldemar Wilhelm Friedl, Ritter von Liebentreu) was an Austrian cinematographer. He worked as a camera assistant in the early 1930s before taking on cinematography roles, primarily on documentaries, newsreels and short films.

He contributed (uncredited) to Leni Riefenstahl’s *Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations* and *Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty* (both 1938). His other credits include *90 Minuten Aufenthalt* (1936), *Der unmögliche Herr Pitt* (1938) and *Menschen, Tiere, Sensationen* (1938). He later worked on postwar documentaries and industrial films, and taught at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna.

He was the father of actors Fritz von Friedl and Loni von Friedl, and grandfather of actor Christoph von Friedl.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org, filmportal.de.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations* (1938), Fi1m 75, Cinematography, Director of Photography — [page](https://film.one/film/olympia-part-one-festival-of-the-nations.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Olympia Part Two: Festival of Beauty* (1938), Director of Photography
- *Olympia Part One: Festival of the Nations* (1938), Director of Photography — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/olympia-part-one-festival-of-the-nations.md)
- *90 Minutes Stop* (1936), Director of Photography
- *Rêve éternel* (1935), Assistant Camera
- *Demon of the Himalayas* (1935), Assistant Camera
- *The Eternal Dream* (1934), Assistant Camera

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