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Karlheinz Böhm

1928 - 2014 (age 86) • 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.

Known For

Peeping Tom

75%

Mark Lewis

1960

Sissi

73%

Emperor Franz Joseph

1955

Sissi: The Young Empress

70%

Emperor Franz Joseph

1956

Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress

71%

Emperor Franz Joseph

1957

Fox and His Friends

72%

Max

1975

Scene of the Crime

62%

Ferdinand Prelinger

1970

Combat!

79%

Bauer

1962

Martha

70%

Helmut

1974

To-be-looked-at-ness / Phallocentrism

2026

Everything is Love

56%

Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)

2014

Sisi... und ich erzähle euch die Wahrheit

Kaiser Franz Josef (archive footage)

2012

Dieter Hallervorden - Mit dem Gesicht

2008

Mister Karl

Self

2008

The Eye of the Beholder

Self

2005

Our Best

Self

2003

Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère

70%

Self

2002

Aeschbacher

Self

2001

Menschen der Woche

60%

Self

2000

Koschwitz

50%

Self

2000

Beckmann

45%

Self

1999

Ein Herz für Kinder

100%

Self

1998

The Johannes B. Kerner Show

75%

Self

1998

Alpha Forum

Self

1998

Menschen hautnah

Self

1998

Sabine Christiansen

100%

Self

1998

Arthouse

Self

1997

Im Dialog

self

1997

A Very British Psycho

80%

Self

1997

Höchstpersönlich

self

1994

Der Bergdoktor

48%

Self

1992

Morgenmagazin

53%

Self

1992

I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me

65%

Self

1992

Zeil um Zehn

Self

1990

Sacrée soirée

57%

Self

1987

Nachtcafé

47%

Self

1987

Showgeschichten

Self

1986

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