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)
 * Klassenkeile (1969)
 * When You're With Me (1970)
 * When the Mad Aunts Arrive (1970)
 * Aunt Trude from Buxtehude (1971)
 * Wir hau'n den Hauswirt in die Pfanne (1971)
 * Hilfe, die Verwandten kommen (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)
 * Death Stone (1987)
 * Three Crazy Jerks (1987)
 * A Touch of Danger (film) (1988, TV film)
 * Kartoffeln mit Stippe (1990, TV miniseries)
 * Die Liebe eines Priesters (2005, TV film)