!!!Böhm, Karlheinz

b. Darmstadt (Germany), March 16, 1928 (film) actor, son of the 
conductor Karl  Boehm, 1949-1953 actor at the Theater in der 
Josefstadt; 1948 film debut, from 1954 role of the young Emperor Franz 
Joseph in a series of "Sissi" films directed by E.  Marischka; parts 
in more than 80 films and TV productions (incl. "Peeping Tom" 1959, 
and in some of R.W. Fassbinder´s films); directed an opera for 
the first time in 1964; 1975-1979 member of the Duesseldorfer 
Schauspielhaus theatre company; 1981 founded the charity organization 
"Menschen fuer Menschen" (People for People) to fight starvation in 
Ethiopia, for which he has almost completely given up his acting 
career.


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