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