Karlheinz Böhm
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.
Known for
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movieEverything is Love
2014
Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)
movieSisi... und ich erzähle euch die Wahrheit
2012
Kaiser Franz Josef (archive footage)
tvBeckmann
1999
Self
tvNachtcafé
1987
Self
Inflation im Paradies
1983
Redaktor (segment "Testschock")
Leute
1983
Self
Die Laurents
1981
Theodore Laurent
tvRingstraßenpalais
1980
Bernie Artenberg
Kur in Travemünde
1979
Manfred Angenendt
movieMother Küsters Goes to Heaven
1975
Karl Tillmann
movieEffi Briest
1974
Wullersdorf
movieMartha
1974
Helmut
tvMotiv Liebe
1974
Vater
movieSchloß Hubertus
1973
Tassilo
tvDalli Dalli
1971
Self - Candidate
tvScene of the Crime
1970
Ferdinand Prelinger
movieTraumnovelle
1969
Fridolin
movieThe Venetian Affair
1966
Robert Wahl
movieEin idealer Gatte
1966
Lord Goring
movieThe Hour of Truth
1965
Hans Wernet
tvBurke's Law
1963
Professor Thomas Marton
movieRififi in Tokyo
1963
Carl Mersen
movieCome Fly with Me
1963
Baron Franz Von Elzingen
tvCombat!
1962
Bauer
tvThe Virginian
1962
Karl Rilke
movieSissi - Forever My Love
1962
Emperor Franz Josef (archive footage)
movieThe Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1962
Heinrich von Hartrott
movieThe Magnificent Rebel
1961
Ludwig van Beethoven
movieToo Hot to Handle
1960
Robert Jouvel
moviePeeping Tom
1960
Mark Lewis
movieCrook and the Cross
1960
Father Steiner
movieLa Paloma
1959
Robert Dahlberg
movieCourt Martial
1959
Oberleutnant Düren
movieThe House of the Three Girls
1958
Franz Schubert
movieThat Won't Keep a Sailor Down
1958
Peter Hille
movieMan müßte nochmal zwanzig sein
1958
Dr. Paul Degenhard
Examen des Lebens
1958
Paul Gardiner
movieSissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
1957
Emperor Franz Joseph
movieCastle in Tyrol
1957
Thomas Stegmann
movieSeamen
1957
Alfred Hanstein
movieSissi: The Young Empress
1956
Emperor Franz Joseph
Nina
1956
Frank Wilson
movieKitty and the Great Big World
1956
Robert Ashlin
movieDie Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
1956
Dr. med. Danwitz
movieSissi
1955
Emperor Franz Joseph
Dunja
1955
Mitja
Swedish Girl
1955
Klaus Richter
movieUnternehmen Schlafsack
1955
Kanonier Gravenhorst
movieThe Golden Plague
1954
Karl Hellmer
movieSalto Mortale
1954
Manfred
Die Sonne von St. Moritz
1954
Dr. Robert Frank
Married En Route
1953
Dr. Walter Delius
movieDer unsterbliche Lump
1953
Johannes Ritter / Petroni
movieArlette Conquers Paris
1953
Gérard Laurent
movieThe Swap
1952
Lorenz Holler
movieUnnatural
1952
Frank Braun
movieHaus des Lebens
1952
Pit Harlacher
movieViennese Women
1952
Walter
movieThe Angel with the Trumpet
1948
Franz Alt jun.
tvBambi
1948
Self