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Karlheinz Böhm
Born: 16th Mar 1928 Darmstadt, Germany - Died 29th May 2014
Dept: Acting
Karlheinz Böhm was an Austrian actor. The son of conductor Karl Böhm, he is best known internationally for his role as Mark, the psychopathic protagonist of Peeping Tom, directed by Michael Powell. Before that, he had played the young Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in the three Sissi movies. He made three notable U.S. films in 1962. He played Jakob Grimm in the 1962 MGM-Cinerama spectacular The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm and Ludwig van Beethoven in the Walt Disney film The Magnificent Rebel. (The latter film was made especially for the Disney anthology television series, but was released theatrically in Europe.) He appeared in a villainous role as the Nazi-sympathizing son of Paul Lukas in the MGM film Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, a Technicolor, widescreen remake of the 1921 silent Rudolph Valentino film. Between 1974 and 1975, Böhm appeared prominently in four consecutive films from prolific New German Cinema director Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Martha, Effi Briest, Faustrecht der Freiheit (aka Fistfight of Freedom or Fox and His Friends), and Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel (Mother Küsters' Trip to Heaven). In 2009 he provided the German voice for Charles Muntz, villain in Pixar's tenth animated feature Up. Since 1981, when he founded Menschen für Menschen ("Humans for Humans"), Böhm had been actively involved in charitable work in Ethiopia, for which in 2007 he was awarded the Balzan Prize for Humanity, Peace and Brotherhood among Peoples. Karlheinz Böhm has been married to Almaz Böhm, a native of Ethiopia, since 1991. They had two children, Nicolas (born 1990) and Aida (born 1993). Böhm had five more children from previous marriages, among them, the actress Katharina Böhm (born 1964). In 2011 Almaz and Karlheinz Böhm were awarded the Essl Social Prize for the project Menschen für Menschen. He died in 2014, aged 86.
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Film and Tv Credits
Total number of credits listed: 112
Film: 69 (62%)
Television: 43 (38%)
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Filmography
Original title: Alles ist Liebe
2014
Follows the lives of different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic few days before ... view
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Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)
2012
September 11, 1898: The imperial family’s personal physician, Dr. Herman Widerhofer, is deeply shocked by the news that an anarchist has assassinate ... view
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Kaiser Franz Josef (archive footage)
2008
A documentary about the life of Karlheinz Böhm from his film career to his charity activities in Ethiopia. ... view
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Self
2005
A series of interviews about the film Peeping Tom (1960). It includes a rare interview with Karlheinz Böhm talking about his role and its subsequent ... view
Character:
Self
2002
Star at 17 years with the series of Sissi, Romy Schneider leaves Austria and glory for the love of Alain Delon. From Luchino Visconti to Otto Preminge ... view
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Self
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Self (3 ep.)
Oct 1997 (first aired)
Channel 4 documentary series covering all branches of the arts. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
1997
A documentary film examining Michael Powell's 1960 film "Peeping Tom," the controversy surrounding its release, and the life of its screenwriter, Leo ... view
Character:
Self
Oct 1992 (first aired)
Der Bergdoktor is a German-Austrian medical drama television series, broadcast in 96 episodes between 1992 and 1997. ... view
Character:
Self (1 ep.)
Original title: Ich will nicht nur, daß ihr mich liebt – Der Filmemacher Rainer Werner Fassbinder
1992
A documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder. ... view
Character:
Self
1983
Four-part episodic film about the everyday lives of young people. The focus is on a café as a communication point for various cliques. ... view
Character:
Redaktor (segment "Testschock")
Feb 1981 (first aired)
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?. ... view
Character:
Self (6 ep.)
Dec 1980 (first aired)
Ringstraßenpalais is an Austrian television series. ... view
Character:
Bernie Artenberg (27 ep.)
Original title: Mutter Küsters' Fahrt zum Himmel
1975
Frau Emma Küsters prepares dinner late one seemingly-ordinary afternoon in her seemingly-ordinary Frankfurt kitchen. She wants to add canned sausages ... view
Character:
Karl Tillmann
Original title: Faustrecht der Freiheit
1975
Fox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and things that he has always wanted. He enters an abusive r ... view
Character:
Max
Original title: Fontane Effi Briest
1974
When 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small, isolated Baltic town and a house that she fears is haunted ... view
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Wullersdorf
1974
After the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha finds herself caught up in a strange, sadomasochistic relationship with a monstrous hus ... view
Character:
Helmut
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Vater (1 ep.)
1973
For Count Egge, there is only one meaningful way of life: living in the magnificent natural surroundings of his mountains. Only hunting matters to him ... view
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Tassilo
1973
The supposedly naive owner of the castle, Louise Strothmann von Auerheim, advertises that the entire family estate is for sale. This not only attracts ... view
Character:
Rainer
Nov 1970 (first aired)
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels ... view
Character:
Ferdinand Prelinger (1 ep.)
1969
After a frank confession by his wife, a doctor is called to see a dying patient. The cause of the night brings him to meet an old friend, a pianist, w ... view
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Fridolin
1966
Former CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American diplomat at a ... view
Character:
Robert Wahl
Original title: L'Heure de la vérité
1965
At the end of World War 2, a Nazi escapes arrest by assuming the identity of concentration camp victim. 20 years later, he is threatened with exposure ... view
Character:
Hans Wernet
Sep 1963 (first aired)
Burke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on CBS in the 1990s. The show starred Gene Barry as Amos ... view
Character:
Professor Thomas Marton (1 ep.)
Original title: Rififi à Tokyo
1963
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond. ... view
Character:
Carl Mersen
1963
Three airline hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry. ... view
Character:
Baron Franz Von Elzingen
Oct 1962 (first aired)
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American so ... view
Character:
Bauer (1 ep.)
Sep 1962 (first aired)
The Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth, the Grainger brothers, and Colonel Alan MacKenzie. It is ... view
Character:
Karl Rilke (1 ep.)
1962
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have their lives dramatized. Wilhelm fights to write s ... view
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Jacob Grimm
Original title: La Croix des vivants
1962
Yan, who has just been acquitted of a crime he has not committed, returns to his Flemish village, where he meets hostility, particularly from Franz, t ... view
Character:
Gus
1962
The beautiful account of the powerful drama of love and courage of Austrian Archduke Franz Joseph and Princess Elizabeth of Bavaria. This is a condens ... view
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Emperor Franz Josef (archive footage)
1962
In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi ... view
Character:
Heinrich von Hartrott
1961
The life of the great composer, Ludwig Van Beethoven, dates back to his arrival in Vienna in 1792 as the composition of his Ninth Symphony. And we fol ... view
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Ludwig van Beethoven
1960
A French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho district becomes involved in the lives of the owner a ... view
Character:
Robert Jouvel
1960
Loner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of women. Also he's making a documentary on fear, which i ... view
Character:
Mark Lewis
Original title: Der Gauner und der liebe Gott
1960
With the help of God, the loveable safecracker Paul Wittkowski – aka “Cracker-Paulie” – manages to escape the clutches of the cops. He dresse ... view
Character:
Father Steiner
1959
Two rival Berlin revue theaters are vying for their big breakthrough. With top stars like jazz legend Louis Armstrong, the Kessler twins, and Bill Ram ... view
Character:
Robert Dahlberg
Apr 1959 (first aired)
Every year there was a Gala of the Stars at the Zirkus Krone in Munich. ... view
Character:
Self (2 ep.)
Original title: Kriegsgericht
1959
In this war drama, three Nazi survivors are rescued after their battleship sank. Initially they are given heroes' accolades for their courage, but the ... view
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Oberleutnant Düren
Original title: Das Dreimäderlhaus
1958
Vienna, 1826. The penniless composer Franz Schubert lives with friends in the house of court glazier Tschöll and his wife. Because of their three bea ... view
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Franz Schubert
Original title: Das haut einen Seemann doch nicht um
1958
German sailor Peter Hille arrives in Copenhagen to see his beloved Hannah. But she has died in childbirth, leaving Peter with an eight-month-old baby. ... view
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Peter Hille
1958
A group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought to be near Tahiti. ... view
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Jean
Original title: Sissi - Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin
1957
After a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean climate to rest. The young empress’ mother takes her ... view
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Emperor Franz Joseph
Character:
Thomas Stegmann
Original title: Sissi - Die junge Kaiserin
1956
Sissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being empress she also has to deal with her difficult new mothe ... view
Character:
Emperor Franz Joseph
Original title: Kitty und die große Welt
1956
The young Kitty is drawn into the world of international politics by chance. ... view
Character:
Robert Ashlin
1956
Dr. Danwitz is a dedicated physician. The assistant doctor works practically day and night on a research project, but without pay. His wife Edith earn ... view
Character:
Dr. med. Danwitz
1955
The young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister Néné to Austria where Néné will be wed to an empe ... view
Character:
Emperor Franz Joseph
Original title: Schwedenmädel
1955
Britta is the foster daughter of Professor Rydberg. The last 13 years she has lived with him and his son Sven. She and Sven are closely not only at th ... view
Character:
Klaus Richter
1955
During the closing stages of the Second World War, a bureaucratic mistake leads to a German officer being reassigned from the dangerous Eastern Front ... view
Character:
Kanonier Gravenhorst
Original title: Die goldene Pest
1954
At the end of the war a disillusioned German exile returns home only to fall into the dark world of black market goods and drug trafficking. ... view
Character:
Karl Hellmer
1954
After some initial difficulties, the daughter of a circus director who died in an accident follows in her father’s footsteps and takes over the busi ... view
Character:
Manfred
Original title: Arlette erobert Paris
1953
When Arlette, born out of wedlock, moves from the countryside to the big city of Paris, she is drawn to the bohemian circles, where she can be herself ... view
Character:
Gérard Laurent
1952
Lorenz has his eye on Simon Gigl's prize-winning breeding bull and would love to have it. But is he willing to make a deal to give up his wife Uschi t ... view
Character:
Lorenz Holler
Original title: Alraune
1952
In the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a woman believing herself to be the daughter of his scie ... view
Character:
Frank Braun
Original title: Wienerinnen
1952
A mix between Italian neo-realism, German expressionism and Austrian exploitation. ... view
Character:
Walter
Original title: Der Engel mit der Posaune
1948
A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war II) is reflected in the ups and downs of a family of pia ... view
Character:
Franz Alt jun.
Jan 1948 (first aired)
The Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented annually by Hubert Burda Media to recognize excellence in i ... view
Character:
Self (3 ep.)