Karlheinz Böhm
Known for: Acting
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
Series
Scene of the Crime
Ferdinand Prelinger
1970
Series
Morgenmagazin
Self
1992
Alpha Forum
Self
1998
Series
The Virginian
Karl Rilke
1962
Series
Combat!
Bauer
1962
Series
Burke's Law
Professor Thomas Marton
1963
Series
Sacrée soirée
Self
1987
Der Club
Self
1985
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
Self
1998
Series
Nachtcafé
Self
1987
Series
Bambi
Self
1948
Series
Wetten, dass..?
Self
1981
Series
Beckmann
Self
1999
Menschen hautnah
Self
1998
Menschen der Woche
Self
2000
Im Dialog
self
1997
German Film Award
Self
1951
Aeschbacher
Self
2001
Series
Dalli Dalli
Self - Candidate
1971
Sabine Christiansen
Self
1998
Wortwechsel
Self
1982
Der große Preis
Self
1974
Series
Heut' abend
Self
1980
Einer wird gewinnen
Self
1964
Alles Liebe V.I.P.
Self
2000
Series
Der Bergdoktor
Self
1992
Film
Peeping Tom
Mark Lewis
1960
Series
Stars in the Ring
Self
1959
Koschwitz
Self
2000
Höchstpersönlich
self
1994
Showgeschichten
Self
1986
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
Self
1964
Film
Sissi
Emperor Franz Joseph
1955
Menschen
Self
1982
Series
Ein Herz für Kinder
Self
1998
Wedden, dat..?
Self
1986
Arthouse
Self
1997
Zeil um Zehn
Self
1990
Film
Sissi: The Young Empress
Emperor Franz Joseph
1956
Leute
Self
1983
Series
Ringstraßenpalais
Bernie Artenberg
1980
Film
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm
1962
Our Best
Self
2003
Film
Unternehmen Schlafsack
Kanonier Gravenhorst
1955
Film
The Venetian Affair
Robert Wahl
1966
Film
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
Emperor Franz Joseph
1957
Film
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Heinrich von Hartrott
1962
Swedish Girl
Klaus Richter
1955
Film
The House of the Three Girls
Franz Schubert
1958
Film
Too Hot to Handle
Robert Jouvel
1960
Film
Effi Briest
Wullersdorf
1974
Film
Schloß Hubertus
Tassilo
1973
Film
Fox and His Friends
Max
1975
Film
Man müßte nochmal zwanzig sein
Dr. Paul Degenhard
1958
Die heilige Lüge
1954
Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre
Self
1971
Series
Motiv Liebe
Vater
1974
Nina
Frank Wilson
1956
Sonntagsgespräch
Self
1985
Magic Graz
himself
1972
Film
The Swap
Lorenz Holler
1952
Film
Traumnovelle
Fridolin
1969
Kur in Travemünde
Manfred Angenendt
1979
Film
Mister Karl
Self
2008
Die Laurents
Theodore Laurent
1981
Film
Come Fly with Me
Baron Franz Von Elzingen
1963
Film
Viennese Women
Walter
1952
Film
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
Self
2002
Film
Court Martial
Oberleutnant Düren
1959
Film
Sissi - Forever My Love
Emperor Franz Josef (archive footage)
1962
Film
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Karl Tillmann
1975
Film
Rififi in Tokyo
Carl Mersen
1963
Film
Everything is Love
Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)
2014
Film
Salto Mortale
Manfred
1954
Film
The Hour of Truth
Hans Wernet
1965
Der Tag vor der Hochzeit
1952
Film
Martha
Helmut
1974
Film
Cross of the Living
Gus
1962
Married En Route
Dr. Walter Delius
1953
Film
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Dr. med. Danwitz
1956
Film
Sisi... und ich erzähle euch die Wahrheit
Kaiser Franz Josef (archive footage)
2012
Film
La Paloma
Robert Dahlberg
1959
Film
Arlette Conquers Paris
Gérard Laurent
1953
Film
To-be-looked-at-ness / Phallocentrism
2026
Film
Seamen
Alfred Hanstein
1957
Film
Ich war ein häßliches Mädchen
Thomas
1955
Film
Crook and the Cross
Father Steiner
1960
Film
Ein idealer Gatte
Lord Goring
1966
Dunja
Mitja
1955
Film
Haus des Lebens
Pit Harlacher
1952
Film
Unnatural
Frank Braun
1952
Film
A Very British Psycho
Self
1997
Film
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self
1992
Film
The Stowaway
Jean
1958
Film
Kitty and the Great Big World
Robert Ashlin
1956
Film
The Golden Plague
Karl Hellmer
1954
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
Dr. Bruck
1975
Seniorenschweiz
1976
Die Sonne von St. Moritz
Dr. Robert Frank
1954
Film
The Magnificent Rebel
Ludwig van Beethoven
1961
Film
The Angel with the Trumpet
Franz Alt jun.
1948
Die Tannerhütte
Becker
1976
Film
The Witch
1954
Film
The Eye of the Beholder
Self
2005
Film
...und ewig bleibt die Liebe
Georg
1954
Film
Der unsterbliche Lump
Johannes Ritter / Petroni
1953
Verdacht gegen Barry Croft
Barry Croft
1972
Examen des Lebens
Paul Gardiner
1958
Film
Dieter Hallervorden - Mit dem Gesicht
2008
Film
That Won't Keep a Sailor Down
Peter Hille
1958
Film
Castle in Tyrol
Thomas Stegmann
1957
Immobilien
Rainer
1973
Inflation im Paradies
Redaktor (segment "Testschock")
1983