Karlheinz Böhm
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.
Peeping Tom
as Mark LewisLoner Mark Lewis works at a film studio during the day and, at night, takes racy photographs of...
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Sissi
as Emperor Franz JosephThe young Bavarian princess Elisabeth, who all call Sissi, goes with her mother and older sister...
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Sissi: The Young Empress
as Emperor Franz JosephSissi is now the empress of Austria and attempts to learn etiquette. While she is busy being...
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Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
as Emperor Franz JosephAfter a wonderful time in Hungary Sissi falls extremely ill and must retreat to a Mediterranean...
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
as Jacob GrimmThe Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century,...
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
as Heinrich von HartrottIn Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is...
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Fox and His Friends
as MaxFox, a former circus performer, wins the lottery of DM 500,000 and can now have the life and...
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Martha
as HelmutAfter the death of her abusive father, lonely librarian Martha is caught in a strange,...
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Alraune
as Frank BraunIn the 1800s, a stormy love relationship develops quickly between a young medical student and a...
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Come Fly with Me
as Baron Franz Von ElzingenThree airline hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich...
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Sissi - Forever My Love
as Emperor Franz Josef (archive footage)The beautiful account of the powerful drama of love and courage of Austrian Archduke Franz...
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Kitty and the Great Big World
as Robert AshlinThe young Kitty is drawn into the world of international politics by chance.
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Too Hot to Handle
as Robert JouvelA French reporter working on a steamy story about the secret strip joints found in London's Soho...
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Effi Briest
as WullersdorfWhen 17-year-old Effi Briest marries the elderly Baron von Instetten, she moves to a small,...
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Traumnovelle
as FridolinAfter a frank confession by his wife, a doctor is called to see a dying patient. The cause of...
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Everything is Love
as Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)Follows the lives of different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely...
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The Venetian Affair
as Robert WahlFormer CIA man, Bill Fenner, now a downbeat, loner journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate...
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Cross of the Living
as GusYan, who has just been acquitted of a crime he has not committed, returns to his Flemish...
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The Stowaway
as JeanA group of adventurers compete with one another to find the missing heir Rene Marechal, thought...
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Viennese Women
as WalterA mix between Italian neo-realism, German expressionism and Austrian exploitation.
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I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
as SelfA documentary about the life and work of director Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
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Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as Karl TillmannAfter a worker kills a superior and commits suicide, each of his family members attempts to...
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Swedish Girl
as Klaus RichterBritta is the foster daughter of Professor Rydberg. The last 13 years she has lived with him and...
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The Magnificent Rebel
as Ludwig van BeethovenThe life of the great composer, Ludwig Van Beethoven, dates back to his arrival in Vienna in...
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Schloß Hubertus
as TassiloA drama directed by Harald Reindl, based on the novel by Ludwig Ganghofer.
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Rififi in Tokyo
as Carl MersenVan Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very...
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The Golden Plague
as Karl HellmerAt the end of the war a disillusioned German exile returns home only to fall into the dark world...
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Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
as SelfStar at 17 years with the series of Sissi, Romy Schneider leaves Austria and glory for the love...
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Sisi... und ich erzähle euch die Wahrheit
as Kaiser Franz Josef (archive footage)September 11, 1898: The imperial family’s personal physician, Dr. Herman Widerhofer, is deeply...
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Crook and the Cross
as Father SteinerWith the help of God, the loveable safecracker Paul Wittkowski – aka “Cracker-Paulie” – manages...
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The Angel with the Trumpet
as Franz Alt jun.A long time-span of Austrian history (from the late 19th century to the years after world war...
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The Hour of Truth
as Hans WernetAt the end of World War 2, a Nazi escapes arrest by assuming the identity of concentration camp...
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A Very British Psycho
as SelfA documentary film examining Michael Powell's 1960 film "Peeping Tom," the controversy...
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Castle in Tyrol
as Thomas StegmannA comedy directed by Géza von Radványi.
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The Eye of the Beholder
as SelfA series of interviews about the film Peeping Tom (1960). It includes a rare interview with...
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Burke's Law
as Professor Thomas MartonBurke's Law is an American detective series that ran on ABC from 1963 to 1965 and was revived on...
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The Virginian
as Karl RilkeThe Shiloh Ranch in Wyoming Territory of the 1890s is owned in sequence by Judge Henry Garth,...
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Scene of the Crime
as Dr. Ferdinand PrelingerTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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Bambi Awards
as SelfThe Bambi, often called the Bambi Award and stylised as BAMBI, is a German award presented...
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Combat!
as BauerCombat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The...
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Wetten, dass..?
as SelfA long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British...
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Der Bergdoktor
as SelfDer Bergdoktor is a German-Austrian medical drama television series, broadcast in 96 episodes...
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Ringstraßenpalais
as Bernie ArtenbergRingstraßenpalais is an Austrian television series.
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Motiv Liebe
as VaterMotiv Liebe is a German television series.
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