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

• 2026To-be-looked-at-ness / Phallocentrism
• 2014Everything is Love — Kaiser Franz Joseph (archive footage)
• 2012Sisi... und ich erzähle euch die Wahrheit — Kaiser Franz Josef (archive footage)
• 2008Dieter Hallervorden - Mit dem Gesicht
• 1983Inflation im Paradies — Redaktor (segment "Testschock")
• Die Laurents — Theodore Laurent
• Ringstraßenpalais — Bernie Artenberg
• 1979Kur in Travemünde — Manfred Angenendt
• 1976Die Tannerhütte — Becker
• 1976Seniorenschweiz
• 1975Fox and His Friends — Max
• 1975Im Hause des Kommerzienrates — Dr. Bruck
• 1975Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven — Karl Tillmann
• 1974Effi Briest — Wullersdorf
• 1974Martha — Helmut
• Motiv Liebe — Vater
• 1973Immobilien — Rainer
• 1973Schloß Hubertus — Tassilo
• 1972Verdacht gegen Barry Croft — Barry Croft
• Scene of the Crime — Ferdinand Prelinger
• 1969Traumnovelle — Fridolin
• 1966Ein idealer Gatte — Lord Goring
• 1966The Venetian Affair — Robert Wahl
• 1965The Hour of Truth — Hans Wernet
• Burke's Law — Professor Thomas Marton
• 1963Come Fly with Me — Baron Franz Von Elzingen
• 1963Rififi in Tokyo — Carl Mersen
• Combat! — Bauer
• 1962Cross of the Living — Gus
• 1962Sissi - Forever My Love — Emperor Franz Josef (archive footage)
• 1962The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse — Heinrich von Hartrott
• The Virginian — Karl Rilke
• 1962The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm — Jacob Grimm
• 1961The Magnificent Rebel — Ludwig van Beethoven
• 1960Crook and the Cross — Father Steiner
• 1960Peeping Tom — Mark Lewis
• 1960Too Hot to Handle — Robert Jouvel
• 1959Court Martial — Oberleutnant Düren
• 1959La Paloma — Robert Dahlberg
• 1958Examen des Lebens — Paul Gardiner
• 1958Man müßte nochmal zwanzig sein — Dr. Paul Degenhard
• 1958That Won't Keep a Sailor Down — Peter Hille
• 1958The House of the Three Girls — Franz Schubert
• 1958The Stowaway — Jean
• 1957Castle in Tyrol — Thomas Stegmann
• 1957Seamen — Alfred Hanstein
• 1957Sissi: The Fateful Years of an Empress — Emperor Franz Joseph
• 1956Die Ehe des Dr. med. Danwitz — Dr. med. Danwitz
• 1956Kitty and the Great Big World — Robert Ashlin
• 1956Nina — Frank Wilson
• 1956Sissi: The Young Empress — Emperor Franz Joseph
• 1955Dunja — Mitja
• 1955Ich war ein häßliches Mädchen — Thomas
• 1955Sissi — Emperor Franz Joseph
• 1955Swedish Girl — Klaus Richter
• 1955Unternehmen Schlafsack — Kanonier Gravenhorst
• 1954...und ewig bleibt die Liebe — Georg
• 1954Die Sonne von St. Moritz — Dr. Robert Frank
• 1954Die heilige Lüge
• 1954Salto Mortale — Manfred
• 1954The Golden Plague — Karl Hellmer
• 1954The Witch
• 1953Arlette Conquers Paris — Gérard Laurent
• 1953Der unsterbliche Lump — Johannes Ritter / Petroni
• 1953Married En Route — Dr. Walter Delius
• 1952Der Tag vor der Hochzeit
• 1952Haus des Lebens — Pit Harlacher
• 1952The Swap — Lorenz Holler
• 1952Unnatural — Frank Braun
• 1952Viennese Women — Walter
• 1948The Angel with the Trumpet — Franz Alt jun.

Appearances as themselves (42)

• 2008Mister Karl — Self
• 2005The Eye of the Beholder — Self
• Our Best — Self
• 2002Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère — Self
• Aeschbacher — Self
• Alles Liebe V.I.P. — Self
• Koschwitz — Self
• Menschen der Woche — Self
• Beckmann — Self
• Alpha Forum — Self
• Ein Herz für Kinder — Self
• Menschen hautnah — Self
• Sabine Christiansen — Self
• The Johannes B. Kerner Show — Self
• 1997A Very British Psycho — Self
• Arthouse — Self
• Im Dialog — self
• Höchstpersönlich — self
• Der Bergdoktor — Self
• 1992I Don’t Just Want You to Love Me — Self
• Morgenmagazin — Self
• Zeil um Zehn — Self
• Nachtcafé — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self
• Showgeschichten — Self
• Wedden, dat..? — Self
• Der Club — Self
• Sonntagsgespräch — Self
• Leute — Self
• Menschen — Self
• Wortwechsel — Self
• Wetten, dass..? — Self
• Heut' abend — Self
• Der große Preis — Self
• 1972Magic Graz — himself
• Anneliese Rothenberger gibt sich die Ehre — Self
• Dalli Dalli — Self - Candidate
• Einer wird gewinnen — Self
• Gut gefragt ist halb gewonnen — Self
• Stars in der Manege — Self
• German Film Award — Self
• Bambi — Self