Karlheinz Böhm
Acting • Born 1928-03-16 – Died 2014-05-29
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
111 credits
Sissi
Movie • 1955
Emperor Franz Joseph
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
Movie • 1957
Emperor Franz Joseph
Sissi: The Young Empress
Movie • 1956
Emperor Franz Joseph
Effi Briest
Movie • 1974
Wullersdorf
Martha
Movie • 1974
Helmut
Unnatural
Movie • 1952
Frank Braun
Peeping Tom
Movie • 1960
Mark Lewis
Magic Graz
Movie • 1972
himself
Sisi... und ich erzähle euch die Wahrheit
Movie • 2012
Kaiser Franz Josef (archive footage)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Movie • 1962
Jacob Grimm
Fox and His Friends
Movie • 1975
Max
Sissi - Forever My Love
Movie • 1962
Emperor Franz Josef (archive footage)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Movie • 1962
Heinrich von Hartrott
The Venetian Affair
Movie • 1967
Robert Wahl
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Movie • 1992
Self
Viennese Women
Movie • 1952
Walter
Come Fly with Me
Movie • 1963
Baron Franz Von Elzingen
Crook and the Cross
Movie • 1960
Father Steiner
Schloß Hubertus
Movie • 1973
Tassilo
...und ewig bleibt die Liebe
Movie • 1954
Georg
Dieter Hallervorden - Mit dem Gesicht
Movie • 2008
Castle in Tyrol
Movie • 1957
Thomas Stegmann
La Paloma
Movie • 1959
Robert Dahlberg
The House of the Three Girls
Movie • 1958
Franz Schubert
Rififi in Tokyo
Movie • 1963
Carl Mersen
The Angel with the Trumpet
Movie • 1948
Franz Alt jun.
Salto Mortale
Movie • 1954
Manfred
That Won't Keep a Sailor Down
Movie • 1958
Peter Hille
Too Hot to Handle
Movie • 1960
Robert Jouvel
Kitty and the Great Big World
Movie • 1956
Robert Ashlin
Haus des Lebens
Movie • 1952
Pit Harlacher
Traumnovelle
Movie • 1969
Fridolin
Swedish Girl
Movie • 1955
Klaus Richter
The Eye of the Beholder
Movie • 2005
Self
Der Weibertausch
Movie • 1952
Lorenz Holler
Mister Karl
Movie • 2008
Self
Court Martial
Movie • 1959
Oberleutnant Düren
A Very British Psycho
Movie • 1997
Self
The Stowaway
Movie • 1958
Jean
Der unsterbliche Lump
Movie • 1953
Johannes Ritter / Petroni
The Golden Plague
Movie • 1954
Karl Hellmer
Der Tag vor der Hochzeit
Movie • 1952
Verdacht gegen Barry Croft
Movie • 1972
Barry Croft
Man müßte nochmal zwanzig sein
Movie • 1958
Dr. Paul Degenhard
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Movie • 1975
Karl Tillmann
Dunja
Movie • 1955
Mitja
Arlette Conquers Paris
Movie • 1953
Gérard Laurent
Unternehmen Schlafsack
Movie • 1955
Kanonier Gravenhorst
Die Sonne von St. Moritz
Movie • 1954
Dr. Robert Frank
Seamen
Movie • 1957
Alfred Hanstein
Ich war ein häßliches Mädchen
Movie • 1955
Thomas
Immobilien
Movie • 1973
Rainer
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Movie • 1956
Dr. med. Danwitz
The Witch
Movie • 1954
Die heilige Lüge
Movie • 1954
Married En Route
Movie • 1953
Dr. Walter Delius
Die Tannerhütte
Movie • 1976
Becker
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
Movie • 1975
Dr. Bruck
Kur in Travemünde
Movie • 1979
Manfred Angenendt
Inflation im Paradies
Movie • 1983
Redaktor (segment "Testschock")
Seniorenschweiz
Movie • 1976
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
Movie • 2002
Self
Ein idealer Gatte
Movie • 1966
Lord Goring
The Magnificent Rebel
Movie • 1961
Ludwig van Beethoven
The Hour of Truth
Movie • 1965
Hans Wernet
Everything is Love
Movie • 2014
Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)
Examen des Lebens
Movie • 1958
Paul Gardiner
Nina
Movie • 1956
Frank Wilson
Cross of the Living
Movie • 1962
Gus
Burke's Law
TV • 1963
Professor Thomas Marton
Sonntagsgespräch
TV • 1985
Self
Leute
TV • 1983
Self
Showgeschichten
TV • 1986
Self
Combat!
TV • 1962
Bauer
The Virginian
TV • 1962
Karl Rilke
Scene of the Crime
TV • 1970
Ferdinand Prelinger
Ringstraßenpalais
TV • 1980
Bernie Artenberg
Der Bergdoktor
TV • 1992
Self
Dalli Dalli
TV • 1971
Self - Candidate
Stars in the Ring
TV • 1959
Self
Motiv Liebe
TV • 1974
Vater
Sabine Christiansen
TV • 1998
Self
Wetten, dass..?
TV • 1981
Self
Arthouse
TV • 1997
Self
Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen
TV • 1964
Self
Einer wird gewinnen
TV • 1964
Self
Die Laurents
TV • 1981
Theodore Laurent
Bambi
TV • 1948
Self
German Film Award
TV • 1951
Self
Menschen der Woche
TV • 2000
Self
The Johannes B. Kerner Show
TV • 1998
Self
Alpha Forum
TV • 1998
Self
Beckmann
TV • 1999
Self
Aeschbacher
TV • 2001
Self
Koschwitz
TV • 2000
Self
Wortwechsel
TV • 1982
Self
Ein Herz für Kinder
TV • 1998
Self
Der Club
TV • 1985
Self
Menschen
TV • 1982
Self
Our Best
TV • 2003
Self
Zeil um Zehn
TV • 1990
Self
Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre
TV • 1971
Self
Der große Preis
TV • 1974
Self
Wedden, dat..?
TV • 1986
Self
Höchstpersönlich
TV • 1994
self
Nachtcafé
TV • 1987
Self
Im Dialog
TV • 1997
self
Heut' abend
TV • 1980
Self
Morgenmagazin
TV • 1992
Self
Sacrée Soirée
TV • 1987
Self
Menschen hautnah
TV • 1998
Self