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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 P…
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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.
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Karlheinz Böhm's Filmography
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To-be-looked-at-ness / Phallocentrism
Everything is Love
as Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)
Sisi... und ich erzähle euch die Wahrheit
as Kaiser Franz Josef (archive footage)
Dieter Hallervorden - Mit dem Gesicht
Mister Karl
as Self
The Eye of the Beholder
as Self
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
as Self
A Very British Psycho
as Self
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
as Self
No Poster
Inflation im Paradies
as Redaktor (segment "Testschock")
No Poster
Kur in Travemünde
as Manfred Angenendt
No Poster
Die Tannerhütte
as Becker
No Poster
Seniorenschweiz
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as Karl Tillmann
Fox and His Friends
as Max
No Poster
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
as Dr. Bruck
Effi Briest
as Wullersdorf
Martha
as Helmut
Schloß Hubertus
as Tassilo
No Poster
Immobilien
as Rainer
No Poster
Verdacht gegen Barry Croft
as Barry Croft
No Poster
Magic Graz
as himself
Traumnovelle
as Fridolin
The Venetian Affair
as Robert Wahl
Ein idealer Gatte
as Lord Goring
The Hour of Truth
as Hans Wernet
Rififi in Tokyo
as Carl Mersen
Come Fly with Me
as Baron Franz Von Elzingen
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
as Jacob Grimm
Cross of the Living
as Gus
Sissi - Forever My Love
as Emperor Franz Josef (archive footage)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
as Heinrich von Hartrott
The Magnificent Rebel
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Too Hot to Handle
as Robert Jouvel
Peeping Tom
as Mark Lewis
Crook and the Cross
as Father Steiner
La Paloma
as Robert Dahlberg
Court Martial
as Oberleutnant Düren
The House of the Three Girls
as Franz Schubert
That Won't Keep a Sailor Down
as Peter Hille
Man müßte nochmal zwanzig sein
as Dr. Paul Degenhard
The Stowaway
as Jean
No Poster
Examen des Lebens
as Paul Gardiner
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
as Emperor Franz Joseph
Castle in Tyrol
as Thomas Stegmann
Seamen
as Alfred Hanstein
Sissi: The Young Empress
as Emperor Franz Joseph
No Poster
Nina
as Frank Wilson
Kitty and the Great Big World
as Robert Ashlin
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
as Dr. med. Danwitz
Sissi
as Emperor Franz Joseph
No Poster
Dunja
as Mitja
No Poster
Swedish Girl
as Klaus Richter
Unternehmen Schlafsack
as Kanonier Gravenhorst
Ich war ein häßliches Mädchen
as Thomas
The Golden Plague
as Karl Hellmer
Salto Mortale
as Manfred
The Witch
...und ewig bleibt die Liebe
as Georg
No Poster
Die heilige Lüge
No Poster
Die Sonne von St. Moritz
as Dr. Robert Frank
No Poster
Married En Route
as Dr. Walter Delius
Der unsterbliche Lump
as Johannes Ritter / Petroni
Arlette Conquers Paris
as Gérard Laurent
The Swap
as Lorenz Holler
No Poster
Der Tag vor der Hochzeit
Unnatural
as Frank Braun
Haus des Lebens
as Pit Harlacher
Viennese Women
as Walter
The Angel with the Trumpet
as Franz Alt jun.