Karlheinz Böhm

Karlheinz Böhm

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.

Acting

2014

Everything is Love
Movie

Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)

2003

1987

1983

Inflation im Paradies
Movie

Redaktor (segment "Testschock")

1982

1974

Effi Briest
Movie

Wullersdorf

1974

1970

Scene of the Crime
Tv

Ferdinand Prelinger

1969

1965

1963

Burke's Law
Tv

Professor Thomas Marton

1963

1963

Come Fly with Me
Movie

Baron Franz Von Elzingen

1962

1961

The Magnificent Rebel
Movie

Ludwig van Beethoven

1960

1960

1960

1959

La Paloma
Movie

Robert Dahlberg

1957

Seamen
Movie

Alfred Hanstein

1956

Sissi: The Young Empress
Movie

Emperor Franz Joseph

1955

Sissi
Movie

Emperor Franz Joseph

1955

Unternehmen Schlafsack
Movie

Kanonier Gravenhorst

1954

1953

1952

The Swap
Movie

Lorenz Holler

1952

Unnatural
Movie

Frank Braun

1952

1948

Infos

Full Name
Karlheinz Böhm
Gender
Male
Date of Birth
3/16/1928
Date of Death
5/29/2014
Also Known As

Karl-Heinz Böhm

Karlheinz Böhm

Karl Böhm

Carl Böhm

Karlheinz Boehm

Karl-Heinz Boehm

Carl Boehm