Karlheinz Böhm

Karlheinz Böhm was born on the 16^th March 1928; he died on the 29^th May 2014. He is sometimes called Carl Boehm, he was an Austrian actor. He appeared in the total of 45 movies of the country and became popular in the country and also at Germany for the roles he played as Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria in the Sissi trilogy and internationally for the role he played as Mark in the movie called the Peeping Tom.

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Karlheinz Böhm was the founder of the trust Menschen für Menschen that assisted the needy people of Ethiopia. He was given honorary Ethiopian citizenship in the year 2003.

Karlheinz Böhm had two citizenships because his father was the Austrian conductor called Karl Bohm and the mother was the German-born soprano called Thea Linhard. He was the only child of the parent and he spent his youth age in Darmstadt, Hamburg and the city of Dresden. In the city of Hamburg, Karlheinz Böhm attended his elementary school and the Kepler-Gymnasium. He faked papers that allowed him moving to Switzerland in the year 1939 and it was there that he attendedLyceum Alpinum Zuoz, which was a boarding school. He moved to the city of Graz with the parents in the year 1946. Originally, he had the intentions of being a piano player but he got poor feedback when he tried-out. His father encouraged him to study the English and the German languages as well as literary studies, which was followed by the study of history of arts for a semester in the city of Rome after which he stopped and went back to the city of Vienna to receive acting lesson with Prof. Helmuth Krauss.

Karlheinz Böhm acted the total of 45 movies in the country from the year 1948 to the year 1976.

Filmography

Ø  1952: Alraune

Ø  1953: Salto Mortale

Ø  1955: Sissi – director: Ernst Marischka

Ø  1956: Sissi – Die junge Kaiserin

Ø  1956: Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz

Ø  1957: Sissi – Schicksalsjahre einer Kaiserin

Ø  1957: Das Schloß in Tirol

Ø  1957: Blaue Jungs

Ø  1958: Man müßte nochmal zwanzig sein

Ø  1959: La Paloma – director: Paul Martin

Ø  1958: Das Dreimäderlhaus

Ø  1958: The Stowaway

Ø  1958: That Won't Keep a Sailor Down

Ø  1959: Court Martial

Ø  1960: Peeping Tom – director: Michael Powell

Ø  1960: Too Hot to Handle – director: Terence Young

Ø  1960: Der Gauner und der liebe Gott (de)

Ø  1961: Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse – director: Vincente Minnelli

Ø  1962: La Croix des vivants (fr)

Ø  1962: The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm – director: George Pal & Henry Levin

Ø  1962: The Magnificent Rebel

Ø  1963: Come Fly with Me – director: Henry Levin

Ø  1963: Rififi à Tokyo (fr) – director: Jacques Deray

Ø  1965: L'Heure de la vérité (fr)

Ø  1967: The Venetian Affair – director: Jerry Thorpe

Ø  1969: Traumnovelle (TV movie)

Ø  1973: Hubertus Castle

Ø  1974: Martha – director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Ø  1974: Faustrecht der Freiheit – director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Ø  1974: Effi Briest – director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Ø  1975: Mutter Küsters Fahrt zum Himmel – director: Rainer Werner Fassbinder

Ø  1980: Ringstraßenpalais (TV series)

Ø  2009: Oben (German Dubbing of Up, voice only)