Karlheinz Böhm
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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
Credits
Sissi (1955)
as Emperor Franz Joseph
Peeping Tom (1960)
as Mark Lewis
Sissi: The Young Empress (1956)
as Emperor Franz Joseph
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957)
as Emperor Franz Joseph
Fox and His Friends (1975)
as Max
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962)
as Heinrich von Hartrott
Effi Briest (1974)
as Wullersdorf
The Stowaway (1958)
as Jean
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962)
as Jacob Grimm
Martha (1974)
as Helmut
The Venetian Affair (1966)
as Robert Wahl
Nina (1956)
as Frank Wilson
Rififi in Tokyo (1963)
as Carl Mersen
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975)
as Karl Tillmann
Too Hot to Handle (1960)
as Robert Jouvel
Everything is Love (2014)
as Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)
Unternehmen Schlafsack (1955)
as Kanonier Gravenhorst
Come Fly with Me (1963)
as Baron Franz Von Elzingen
Sissi - Forever My Love (1962)
as Emperor Franz Josef (archive footage)
Der Weibertausch (1952)
as Lorenz Holler
Unnatural (1952)
as Frank Braun
Mister Karl (2008)
as Self
Traumnovelle (1969)
as Fridolin
The Eye of the Beholder (2005)
as Self
Viennese Women (1952)
as Walter
Castle in Tyrol (1957)
as Thomas Stegmann
Schloß Hubertus (1973)
as Tassilo
Man müßte nochmal zwanzig sein (1958)
as Dr. Paul Degenhard
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992)
as Self
The House of the Three Girls (1958)
as Franz Schubert
Cross of the Living (1962)
as Gus
The Magnificent Rebel (1961)
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Crook and the Cross (1960)
as Father Steiner
Sisi... und ich erzähle euch die Wahrheit (2012)
as Kaiser Franz Josef (archive footage)
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz (1956)
as Dr. med. Danwitz
Der Tag vor der Hochzeit (1952)
Actor
The Hour of Truth (1965)
as Hans Wernet
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère (2002)
as Self
Arlette Conquers Paris (1953)
as Gérard Laurent
La Paloma (1959)
as Robert Dahlberg
Court Martial (1959)
as Oberleutnant Düren
Examen des Lebens (1958)
as Paul Gardiner
That Won't Keep a Sailor Down (1958)
as Peter Hille
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates (1975)
as Dr. Bruck
Salto Mortale (1954)
as Manfred
A Very British Psycho (1997)
as Self
Inflation im Paradies (1983)
as Redaktor (segment "Testschock")
Magic Graz (1972)
as himself
The Angel with the Trumpet (1948)
as Franz Alt jun.
Dunja (1955)
as Mitja
The Golden Plague (1954)
as Karl Hellmer
Kitty and the Great Big World (1956)
as Robert Ashlin
...und ewig bleibt die Liebe (1954)
as Georg
Kur in Travemünde (1979)
as Manfred Angenendt
Swedish Girl (1955)
as Klaus Richter
Seamen (1957)
as Alfred Hanstein
Immobilien (1973)
as Rainer
To-be-looked-at-ness / Phallocentrism (2026)
Actor
Die Sonne von St. Moritz (1954)
as Dr. Robert Frank
Ein idealer Gatte (1966)
as Lord Goring
Die heilige Lüge (1954)
Actor
Ich war ein häßliches Mädchen (1955)
as Thomas
Haus des Lebens (1952)
as Pit Harlacher
Die Tannerhütte (1976)
as Becker
Seniorenschweiz (1976)
Actor
Married En Route (1953)
as Dr. Walter Delius
Verdacht gegen Barry Croft (1972)
as Barry Croft
Der unsterbliche Lump (1953)
as Johannes Ritter / Petroni
The Witch (1954)
Actor
Dieter Hallervorden - Mit dem Gesicht (2008)
Actor