Karlheinz Böhm

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Almaz and Karlheinz Böhm

Karlheinz Böhm (sometimes Carl Boehm) (born March 16, 1928 in Darmstadt, Germany) is an Austrian actor. The son of conductor Karl Böhm, he is best known 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 in the three Sissi movies.

Since 1981, when he founded Menschen für Menschen ("Humans for Humans"), Böhm has been actively involved in charitable work in Ethiopia.

Karlheinz Böhm has been married to Almaz Böhm, a native of Ethiopia, since 1991. They have two children, Nicolas (born 1990) and Aida (born 1993). Böhm has another daughter by a previous marriage, the actress Katharina Böhm (born 1964).

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