CINEFILER

Karlheinz Böhm

Born
March 16, 1928
Died
May 29, 2014
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
Sissi
(1955)
Emperor Franz Joseph
Peeping Tom
(1960)
Mark Lewis
Sissi: The Young Empress
(1956)
Emperor Franz Joseph
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
(1957)
Emperor Franz Joseph
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(1962)
Heinrich von Hartrott
Fox and His Friends
(1975)
Max
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
(1962)
Jacob Grimm
Psycho Tom
(2017)
Mark Lewis
Full Filmography
Acting
The Angel with the Trumpet
(1948)
Franz Alt jun.
Alraune
(1952)
Frank Braun
Viennese Women
(1952)
Walter
Haus des Lebens
(1952)
Pit Harlacher
Der Weibertausch
(1952)
Lorenz Holler
Der Tag vor der Hochzeit
(1952)
Der unsterbliche Lump
(1953)
Johannes Ritter / Petroni
Arlette Conquers Paris
(1953)
Gérard Laurent
Hochzeit auf Reisen
(1953)
Dr. Walter Delius
...und ewig bleibt die Liebe
(1954)
Georg
Salto Mortale
(1954)
Manfred
Die heilige Lüge
(1954)
The Golden Plague
(1954)
Karl Hellmer
Die Sonne von St. Moritz
(1954)
Dr. Robert Frank
The Witch
(1954)
Sissi
(1955)
Emperor Franz Joseph
Swedish Girl
(1955)
Klaus Richter
Dunja
(1955)
Mitja
Ich war ein häßliches Mädchen
(1955)
Thomas
Unternehmen Schlafsack
(1955)
Kanonier Gravenhorst
Sissi: The Young Empress
(1956)
Emperor Franz Joseph
Kitty and the Great Big World
(1956)
Robert Ashlin
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
(1956)
Dr. med. Danwitz
Nina
(1956)
Frank Wilson
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
(1957)
Emperor Franz Joseph
Castle in Tyrol
(1957)
Thomas Stegmann
Seamen
(1957)
Alfred Hanstein
The House of the Three Girls
(1958)
Franz Schubert
Das haut einen Seemann doch nicht um
(1958)
Peter Hille
The Stowaway
(1958)
Jean
Man müßte nochmal zwanzig sein
(1958)
Dr. Paul Degenhard
Examen des Lebens
(1958)
Paul Gardiner
La Paloma
(1959)
Robert Dahlberg
Court Martial
(1959)
Oberleutnant Düren
Peeping Tom
(1960)
Mark Lewis
Crook and the Cross
(1960)
Father Steiner
Too Hot to Handle
(1960)
Robert Jouvel
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
(1962)
Jacob Grimm
Sissi - Forever My Love
(1962)
Emperor Franz Josef (archive footage)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(1962)
Heinrich von Hartrott
The Magnificent Rebel
(1962)
Ludwig van Beethoven
Cross of the Living
(1962)
Gus
Come Fly with Me
(1963)
Baron Franz Von Elzingen
Rififi in Tokyo
(1963)
Carl Mersen
The Hour of Truth
(1965)
Hans Wernet
Ein idealer Gatte
(1966)
Lord Goring
The Venetian Affair
(1967)
Robert Wahl
Traumnovelle
(1969)
Fridolin
Magic Graz
(1972)
himself
Verdacht gegen Barry Croft
(1972)
Barry Croft
Schloß Hubertus
(1973)
Tassilo
Immobilien
(1973)
Rainer
Effi Briest
(1974)
Wullersdorf
Martha
(1974)
Helmut
Fox and His Friends
(1975)
Max
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
(1975)
Karl Tillmann
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
(1975)
Dr. Bruck
Die Tannerhütte
(1976)
Becker
Seniorenschweiz
(1976)
Kur in Travemünde
(1979)
Manfred Angenendt
Inflation im Paradies
(1983)
Redaktor (segment "Testschock")
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
(1992)
Self
A Very British Psycho
(1997)
Self
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
(2002)
Self
The Eye of the Beholder
(2005)
Self
Dieter Hallervorden - Mit dem Gesicht
(2008)
Mister Karl
(2008)
Self
Sisi... und ich erzähle euch die Wahrheit
(2012)
Kaiser Franz Josef (archive footage)
Everything is Love
(2014)
Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)
Psycho Tom
(2017)
Mark Lewis
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