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