Karlheinz Böhm
Actor
Born March 16, 1928 in Darmstadt, Germany
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
To-be-looked-at-ness / Phallocentrism
Everything is Love
Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)
Sisi... und ich erzähle euch die Wahrheit
Kaiser Franz Josef (archive footage)
Dieter Hallervorden - Mit dem Gesicht
The Eye of the Beholder
Self
Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
Self
Beckmann
Self
Ein Herz für Kinder
Self
A Very British Psycho
Self
Der Bergdoktor
Self
Morgenmagazin
Self
I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me
Self
Sacrée soirée
Self
Nachtcafé
Self
Wetten, dass..?
Self
Ringstraßenpalais
Bernie Artenberg
Heut' abend
Self
Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven
Karl Tillmann
Fox and His Friends
Max
Effi Briest
Wullersdorf
Martha
Helmut
Motiv Liebe
Vater
Schloß Hubertus
Tassilo
Dalli Dalli
Self - Candidate
Scene of the Crime
Ferdinand Prelinger
Traumnovelle
Fridolin
The Venetian Affair
Robert Wahl
Ein idealer Gatte
Lord Goring
The Hour of Truth
Hans Wernet
Burke's Law
Professor Thomas Marton
Rififi in Tokyo
Carl Mersen
Come Fly with Me
Baron Franz Von Elzingen
Combat!
Bauer
The Virginian
Karl Rilke
The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
Jacob Grimm
Cross of the Living
Gus
Sissi - Forever My Love
Emperor Franz Josef (archive footage)
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Heinrich von Hartrott
The Magnificent Rebel
Ludwig van Beethoven
Too Hot to Handle
Robert Jouvel
Peeping Tom
Mark Lewis
Crook and the Cross
Father Steiner
La Paloma
Robert Dahlberg
Stars in the Ring
Self
Court Martial
Oberleutnant Düren
The House of the Three Girls
Franz Schubert
That Won't Keep a Sailor Down
Peter Hille
Man müßte nochmal zwanzig sein
Dr. Paul Degenhard
The Stowaway
Jean
Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress
Emperor Franz Joseph
Castle in Tyrol
Thomas Stegmann
Seamen
Alfred Hanstein
Sissi: The Young Empress
Emperor Franz Joseph
Kitty and the Great Big World
Robert Ashlin
Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz
Dr. med. Danwitz
Sissi
Emperor Franz Joseph
Unternehmen Schlafsack
Kanonier Gravenhorst
Ich war ein häßliches Mädchen
Thomas
The Golden Plague
Karl Hellmer
Salto Mortale
Manfred
The Witch
...und ewig bleibt die Liebe
Georg
Der unsterbliche Lump
Johannes Ritter / Petroni
Arlette Conquers Paris
Gérard Laurent
Der Weibertausch
Lorenz Holler
Unnatural
Frank Braun
Haus des Lebens
Pit Harlacher
Viennese Women
Walter
The Angel with the Trumpet
Franz Alt jun.
Bambi
Self