
Karlheinz Böhm
Personal Info
Known for
Acting
Gender
Male
Birthday
1928-03-16
Day of Death
2014-05-29 (86 years old)
Place of Birth
Darmstadt, Germany
Karlheinz Böhm
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.
Known For
Acting
(2017)
Psycho Tom
as Mark Lewis
(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)
(2008)
Mister Karl
as Self
(2005)
The Eye of the Beholder
as Self
(2002)
(1997)
A Very British Psycho
as Self
(1992)
(1983)
Inflation im Paradies
as Redaktor (segment "Testschock")
(1979)
Kur in Travemünde
as Manfred Angenendt
(1976)
(1976)
Die Tannerhütte
as Becker
(1975)
Fox and His Friends
as Max
(1975)
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
as Karl Tillmann
(1975)
Im Hause des Kommerzienrates
as Dr. Bruck
(1974)
Martha
as Helmut
(1974)
Effi Briest
as Wullersdorf
(1973)
Schloß Hubertus
as Tassilo
(1973)
Immobilien
as Rainer
(1972)
Magic Graz
as himself
(1972)
Verdacht gegen Barry Croft
as Barry Croft
(1969)
Traumnovelle
as Fridolin
(1967)
The Venetian Affair
as Robert Wahl
(1966)
Ein idealer Gatte
as Lord Goring
(1965)
The Hour of Truth
as Hans Wernet
(1963)
Come Fly with Me
as Baron Franz Von Elzingen
(1963)
Rififi in Tokyo
as Carl Mersen
(1962)
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
as Jacob Grimm
(1962)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
as Heinrich von Hartrott
(1962)
Sissi - Forever My Love
as Emperor Franz Josef (archive footage)
(1962)
Cross of the Living
as Gus
(1962)
The Magnificent Rebel
as Ludwig van Beethoven
(1960)
Peeping Tom
as Mark Lewis
(1960)
Too Hot to Handle
as Robert Jouvel
(1960)
Crook and the Cross
as Father Steiner
(1959)
Court Martial
as Oberleutnant Düren
(1959)
La Paloma
as Robert Dahlberg
(1958)
Das haut einen Seemann doch nicht um
as Peter Hille
(1958)
Man müßte nochmal zwanzig sein
as Dr. Paul Degenhard
(1958)
The House of the Three Girls
as Franz Schubert
(1958)
The Stowaway
as Jean
(1958)
Examen des Lebens
as Paul Gardiner
(1957)
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
as Emperor Franz Joseph
(1957)
Castle in Tyrol
as Thomas Stegmann
(1957)
Seamen
as Alfred Hanstein
(1956)
Sissi: The Young Empress
as Emperor Franz Joseph
(1956)
Nina
as Frank Wilson
(1956)
Kitty and the Great Big World
as Robert Ashlin
(1956)
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
as Dr. med. Danwitz
(1955)
Sissi
as Emperor Franz Joseph
(1955)
Dunja
as Mitja
(1955)
Unternehmen Schlafsack
as Kanonier Gravenhorst
(1955)
Swedish Girl
as Klaus Richter
(1955)
Ich war ein häßliches Mädchen
as Thomas
(1954)
...und ewig bleibt die Liebe
as Georg
(1954)
Salto Mortale
as Manfred
(1954)
(1954)
The Golden Plague
as Karl Hellmer
(1954)
Die Sonne von St. Moritz
as Dr. Robert Frank
(1954)
(1953)
Der unsterbliche Lump
as Johannes Ritter / Petroni
(1953)
Arlette Conquers Paris
as Gérard Laurent
(1953)
Married En Route
as Dr. Walter Delius
(1952)
Alraune
as Frank Braun
(1952)
Haus des Lebens
as Pit Harlacher
(1952)
(1952)
Der Weibertausch
as Lorenz Holler
(1952)
Viennese Women
as Walter
(1948)
The Angel with the Trumpet
as Franz Alt jun.