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Karlheinz Böhm

Karlheinz Böhm

Actor · Born 1928-03-16 · Darmstadt, Germany

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Biography

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, …

Movies & TV Shows

  1. Peeping Tom (1960) — Mark Lewis
  2. Sissi (1955) — Emperor Franz Joseph
  3. Sissi: The Young Empress (1956) — Emperor Franz Joseph
  4. Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress (1957) — Emperor Franz Joseph
  5. Fox and His Friends (1975) — Max
  6. Scene of the Crime (1970) — Ferdinand Prelinger
  7. Combat! (1962) — Bauer
  8. Martha (1974) — Helmut
  9. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962) — Heinrich von Hartrott
  10. Effi Briest (1974) — Wullersdorf
  11. The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm (1962) — Jacob Grimm
  12. Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven (1975) — Karl Tillmann
  13. The Virginian (1962) — Karl Rilke
  14. Sissi - Forever My Love (1962) — Emperor Franz Josef (archive footage)
  15. Everything is Love (2014) — Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)
  16. Too Hot to Handle (1960) — Robert Jouvel
  17. Unnatural (1952) — Frank Braun
  18. Wetten, dass..? (1981) — Self
  19. Come Fly with Me (1963) — Baron Franz Von Elzingen
  20. Rififi in Tokyo (1963) — Carl Mersen
  21. Burke's Law (1963) — Professor Thomas Marton
  22. The Venetian Affair (1966) — Robert Wahl
  23. I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me (1992) — Self
  24. Crook and the Cross (1960) — Father Steiner
  25. Kitty and the Great Big World (1956) — Robert Ashlin
  26. Viennese Women (1952) — Walter
  27. Der Bergdoktor (1992) — Self
  28. The Angel with the Trumpet (1948) — Franz Alt jun.
  29. Traumnovelle (1969) — Fridolin
  30. The House of the Three Girls (1958) — Franz Schubert
  31. Court Martial (1959) — Oberleutnant Düren
  32. The Hour of Truth (1965) — Hans Wernet
  33. Sacrée soirée (1987) — Self
  34. Schloß Hubertus (1973) — Tassilo
  35. ...und ewig bleibt die Liebe (1954) — Georg
  36. The Swap (1952) — Lorenz Holler
  37. Seamen (1957) — Alfred Hanstein
  38. The Magnificent Rebel (1961) — Ludwig van Beethoven
  39. Cross of the Living (1962) — Gus
  40. Dalli Dalli (1971) — Self - Candidate