Karlheinz Böhm
Born: 1928-03-16 in Darmstadt, Germany
Died: 2014-05-29
Known For: Acting
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, 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.
Filmography
2014
- Everything is Love as Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)
2012
- Sisi... und ich erzähle euch die Wahrheit as Kaiser Franz Josef (archive footage)
2008
2005
- The Eye of the Beholder as Self
2003
- Our Best as Self
2002
2001
- Aeschbacher as Self
2000
- Menschen der Woche as Self
- Koschwitz as Self
- Alles Liebe V.I.P. as Self
1999
- Beckmann as Self
1998
- The Johannes B. Kerner Show as Self
- Alpha Forum as Self
- Sabine Christiansen as Self
- Ein Herz für Kinder as Self
- Menschen hautnah as Self
1997
- Im Dialog as self
- Arthouse as Self
- A Very British Psycho as Self
1994
- Höchstpersönlich as self
1992
- Morgenmagazin as Self
- Der Bergdoktor as Self
- I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me as Self
1990
- Zeil um Zehn as Self
1987
- Sacrée soirée as Self
- Nachtcafé as Self
1986
- Showgeschichten as Self
- Wedden, dat..? as Self
1985
- Der Club as Self
- Sonntagsgespräch as Self
1983
- Leute as Self
- Inflation im Paradies as Redaktor (segment "Testschock")
1982
- Wortwechsel as Self
- Menschen as Self
1981
- Wetten, dass..? as Self
- Die Laurents as Theodore Laurent
1980
- Heut' abend as Self
- Ringstraßenpalais as Bernie Artenberg
1979
- Kur in Travemünde as Manfred Angenendt
1976
- Seniorenschweiz
- Die Tannerhütte as Becker
1975
- Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven as Karl Tillmann
- Fox and His Friends as Max
- Im Hause des Kommerzienrates as Dr. Bruck
1974
- Der große Preis as Self
- Motiv Liebe as Vater
- Effi Briest as Wullersdorf
- Martha as Helmut
1973
- Schloß Hubertus as Tassilo
- Immobilien as Rainer
1972
- Magic Graz as himself
- Verdacht gegen Barry Croft as Barry Croft
1971
- Dalli Dalli as Self - Candidate
- Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre as Self
1970
- Scene of the Crime as Ferdinand Prelinger
1969
- Traumnovelle as Fridolin
1966
- The Venetian Affair as Robert Wahl
- Ein idealer Gatte as Lord Goring
1965
- The Hour of Truth as Hans Wernet
1964
- Einer wird gewinnen as Self
- Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen as Self
1963
- Burke's Law as Professor Thomas Marton
- Come Fly with Me as Baron Franz Von Elzingen
- Rififi in Tokyo as Carl Mersen
1962
- The Virginian as Karl Rilke
- Combat! as Bauer
- The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm as Jacob Grimm
- The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse as Heinrich von Hartrott
- Cross of the Living as Gus
- Sissi - Forever My Love as Emperor Franz Josef (archive footage)
1961
- The Magnificent Rebel as Ludwig van Beethoven
1960
- Peeping Tom as Mark Lewis
- Too Hot to Handle as Robert Jouvel
- Crook and the Cross as Father Steiner
1959
- Stars in der Manege as Self
- Court Martial as Oberleutnant Düren
- La Paloma as Robert Dahlberg
1958
- Man müßte nochmal zwanzig sein as Dr. Paul Degenhard
- The House of the Three Girls as Franz Schubert
- That Won't Keep a Sailor Down as Peter Hille
- The Stowaway as Jean
- Examen des Lebens as Paul Gardiner
1957
- Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress as Emperor Franz Joseph
- Castle in Tyrol as Thomas Stegmann
- Seamen as Alfred Hanstein
1956
- Sissi: The Young Empress as Emperor Franz Joseph
- Nina as Frank Wilson
- Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz as Dr. med. Danwitz
- Kitty and the Great Big World as Robert Ashlin
1955
- Sissi as Emperor Franz Joseph
- Ich war ein häßliches Mädchen as Thomas
- Unternehmen Schlafsack as Kanonier Gravenhorst
- Swedish Girl as Klaus Richter
- Dunja as Mitja
1954
- Salto Mortale as Manfred
- ...und ewig bleibt die Liebe as Georg
- Die Sonne von St. Moritz as Dr. Robert Frank
- The Golden Plague as Karl Hellmer
- Die heilige Lüge
- The Witch
1953
- Arlette Conquers Paris as Gérard Laurent
- Married En Route as Dr. Walter Delius
- Der unsterbliche Lump as Johannes Ritter / Petroni
1952
- The Swap as Lorenz Holler
- Der Tag vor der Hochzeit
- Unnatural as Frank Braun
- Viennese Women as Walter
- Haus des Lebens as Pit Harlacher
1951
- German Film Award as Self
1948
- Bambi as Self
- The Angel with the Trumpet as Franz Alt jun.