Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (December 13, 1915 – June 18, 1982) was an Austrian stage and motion-picture actor of German-French parentage. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. In 1945 Jürgens took Austrian citizenship.

Peer Schmidt, Klaus Kinski and Jürgens (right) in the German film Bankraub in ‘der Rue Latour’ (1961).

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. However, like many multilingual German-speaking actors, he went on to play soldiers in innumerable war films. Notable performances in this vein include a medative officer in the epic The Longest Day. 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 became an international film star. He gained the role of the villain in The Spy Who Loved Me as Karl Stromberg, the sociopathic industrialist seeking to transform the world into an ocean paradise.

Although he appeared in over 100 films, Jürgens considered himself primarily a stage actor. He directed a few films with limited success, and also wrote screenplays.