Kurt Katch

Kurt Katch

Born: January 26, 1896
Died: August 14, 1958

Movies for Kurt Katch...

When Hell Broke Loose
Title: When Hell Broke Loose
Character: German 'Werewolf'
Released: November 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Near the end of the war in Germany, GI Steve Boland, a self-described "sharp-operator", meets a German girl, Ilsa, and they fall in love. Ilsa's brother Karl, whom she has not seen in three years, and his fellow Nazi Ludwig visit Ilsa. Karl proudly informs her that he and Ludwig are "Werewolves", a group of Nazi assassins parachuted behind Allied lines for the purpose of killing Allied High Command officers. She and Steve go to Army Intelligence with their information, where Steve is immediately arrested for being A.W.O.L. Captain Melton of Army G-2 intervenes on Steve's behalf, as G-2 has had a suspicion about the existence of the "Werewolves" but no concrete info before now.
bee
The Beast of Budapest
Title: The Beast of Budapest
Character: Sgt. Geza
Released: February 23, 1958
Type: Movie
Archival footage combined with new footage re-creates the 1956 Hungarian Revolution. It is also a love story between a devout communist woman and the liberal son of a prominent professor. Because of their political differences, the two can never be together.
bee
The Girl in the Kremlin
Title: The Girl in the Kremlin
Character: Commissar
Released: April 11, 1957
Type: Movie
In Moscow 1953, four terrified women prisoners are brought before Joseph Stalin, who chooses the beautiful Dasha. He punishes her by shaving off her long hair. Moments later, a plastic surgeon leads Stalin into the operating room and transforms his face so that he is unrecognizable. He vanishes, but OSS agent Steve Anderson searches for him in Europe.
bee
Pharaoh's Curse
Title: Pharaoh's Curse
Character: Hans Brecht
Released: February 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Archaeologists in Egypt find one of their crew has been turned into a blood sucking mummy after they have unleashed a three thousand year curse.
bee
Hot Cars
Title: Hot Cars
Character: Chop-Shop Boss Otto
Released: November 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Story of a salesman lured into the "hot car" racket.
bee
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Title: Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy
Character: Dr. Gustav Zoomer
Released: June 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Stranded in Egypt, Bud and Lou find themselves in the buried tomb of a living mummy.
bee
Casino Royale
Title: Casino Royale
Character: Zoltan
Released: October 21, 1954
Type: Movie
American spy James Bond must outsmart card wiz and crime boss LeChiffre while monitoring his actions.
bee
Title: Climax!
Character: Zoltan
Released: October 7, 1954
Type: TV
Climax! is an American anthology series that aired on CBS from 1954 to 1958. The series was hosted by William Lundigan and later co-hosted by Mary Costa. It was one of the few CBS programs of that era to be broadcast in color. Many of the episodes were performed and broadcast live.
bee
Secret of the Incas
Title: Secret of the Incas
Character: Man with rifle
Released: June 6, 1954
Type: Movie
Harry Steele (Charlton Heston) is a tourist guide determined to make his fortune by finding the Sunburst, an Inca treasure.
bee
Song of Love
Title: Song of Love
Character: Judge
Released: October 9, 1947
Type: Movie
Composer Robert Schumann struggles to compose his symphonies while his loving wife Clara offers her support. Also helping the Schumanns is their lifelong friend, composer Johannes Brahms.
bee
Strange Journey
Title: Strange Journey
Character: Horst
Released: October 3, 1946
Type: Movie
Reformed racketeer "Lucky" Leeds flees from the police when he thinks they are about to arrest him for a murder he didn't commit. He and his wife Patti fly to his privately-owned remote island and have to crash land. Also on the island is a group of shipwrecked people, including a German professor, his daughter, an English journalist, a wealthy widow, a sailor and a Nazi Agent.
bee
Angel on My Shoulder
Title: Angel on My Shoulder
Character: Warden in Hell (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1946
Type: Movie
The Devil arranges for a deceased gangster to return to Earth as a well-respected judge to make up for his previous life.
bee
Salome, Where She Danced
Title: Salome, Where She Danced
Character: Count Von Bismarck
Released: April 17, 1945
Type: Movie
During the Austrian-Prussian war, Anna Marie is a dancer who is forced to flee her country after she is accused of being a spy. She ends up in a lawless western town in Arizona, where she uses her charms and dancing skills to transform herself into "Salome" during her dance routines.
bee
The Mummy's Curse
Title: The Mummy's Curse
Character: Cajun Joe
Released: December 22, 1944
Type: Movie
After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous of Louisiana, as is the soul of his beloved Princess Ananka, still housed in the body of Amina Mansouri, who seeks help and protection at a swamp draining project.
bee
The Conspirators
Title: The Conspirators
Character: Otto Lutzke
Released: October 24, 1944
Type: Movie
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
bee
The Seventh Cross
Title: The Seventh Cross
Character: Leo Hermann
Released: July 24, 1944
Type: Movie
In Nazi Germany in 1936 seven men escape from a concentration camp. The camp commander puts up seven crosses and, as the Gestapo returns each escapee he is put to death on a cross. The seventh cross is still empty as George Heisler seeks freedom in Holland.
bee
The Mask of Dimitrios
Title: The Mask of Dimitrios
Character: Colonel Haki
Released: June 23, 1944
Type: Movie
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose dead body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
bee
Make Your Own Bed
Title: Make Your Own Bed
Character: Herr von Ritter
Released: June 10, 1944
Type: Movie
Walter and Vivian live in the country and have a difficult time keeping servants. Walter then hires a private detective who has been fired for arresting the District Attorney. They only way that Walter can get Jerry to work for him is to tell Jerry that his life is in danger; the neighbor is trying to take his wife; and that Nazi spies are everywhere. Jerry needs a cook for his 'cover' so he gets his fiancée Susan to work with him. To keep Jerry working, Walter sends the threatening letters to himself and hires actors to play the spies but when a real group of spies disguised as a troupe of radio actors appears on the scene, events quickly spiral out of control.
bee
The Purple Heart
Title: The Purple Heart
Released: February 25, 1944
Type: Movie
This is the story of the crew of a downed bomber, captured after a run over Tokyo, early in the war. Relates the hardships the men endure while in captivity, and their final humiliation: being tried and convicted as war criminals.
bee
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Title: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Character: Hulagu Khan
Released: January 14, 1944
Type: Movie
Orphaned as a young child and adopted by a band of notorious thieves, now-grown Ali Baba sets out to avenge his father’s murder, reclaim the royal throne, and rescue his beloved Amara from the iron fist of his treacherous enemy.
bee
Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Title: Secret Service In Darkest Africa
Character: Kurt Hauptmann
Released: July 24, 1943
Type: Movie
An American secret agent travels to Africa to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring.
bee
Background to Danger
Title: Background to Danger
Character: Mailler
Released: July 3, 1943
Type: Movie
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
bee
They Came to Blow Up America
Title: They Came to Blow Up America
Character: Schonzeit
Released: May 7, 1943
Type: Movie
Based on a true incident that occurred in 1942 when nine Nazi saboteurs were put ashore on the coast of Long Island, New York, by submarine, with orders to blow up various defense installations.
bee
Mission to Moscow
Title: Mission to Moscow
Character: Gen. Semen Timoshenko (uncredited)
Released: April 29, 1943
Type: Movie
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
bee
Edge of Darkness
Title: Edge of Darkness
Character: German Landing Party Captain
Released: April 9, 1943
Type: Movie
The film pivots around the local Norwegian doctor and his family. The doctor's wife (Ruth Gordon) wants to hold on to the pretence of gracious living and ignore their German occupiers. The doctor, Martin Stensgard (Walter Huston), would also prefer to stay neutral, but is torn. His brother-in-law, the wealthy owner of the local fish cannery, collaborates with the Nazis. The doctor's daughter, Karen (Ann Sheridan), is involved with the resistance and with its leader Gunnar Brogge (Errol Flynn). The doctor's son has just returned to town, having been sent down from the university, and is soon influenced by his Nazi-sympathizer uncle. Captain Koenig (Helmut Dantine), the young German commandant of the occupying garrison, whose fanatic determination to do everything by the book and spoutings about the invincibility of the Reich hides a growing fear of a local uprising.
bee
Quiet Please, Murder
Title: Quiet Please, Murder
Character: Eric Pahsen
Released: March 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A forger steals and kills for a rare book from a library in order to make forgeries to sell to rich suckers.
bee
The Purple V
Title: The Purple V
Character: Johann Keller
Released: March 12, 1943
Type: Movie
German expatriate Fritz Kortner plays the largest role, as an anti-Nazi schoolmaster who helps a downed American flyer (John Archer) reached Allied lines with vital war information. As usual, the Nazis are incredibly stupid and lead-footed, enabling the flyer to accomplish his mission.
bee
Desperate Journey
Title: Desperate Journey
Character: Hesse
Released: September 26, 1942
Type: Movie
During WWII, when an allied bomber is shot down over Germany, the five surviving crew are captured but cleverly escape detention after learning German secret information and knocking out a Nazi major. With the angry major in hot pursuit, aided by military personnel, Gestapo agents and Hitler-loyal citizens, the five wend their way across perilous Germany, intent on reaching the UK with the secrets they have learned.
bee
Counter-Espionage
Title: Counter-Espionage
Character: Gustav Sossel
Released: September 3, 1942
Type: Movie
The Lone Wolf tracks down Nazi spies in London during the German bombing.
bee
Berlin Correspondent
Title: Berlin Correspondent
Character: Weiner
Released: August 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Dana Andrews plays Bill Roberts, an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor. Having witnessed Nazi brutalities first hand, Roberts hopes to alert his listeners of impending dangers, and does so by sending out coded messages during his broadcasts. The Gestapo begins to suspect something and assigns glamorous secret agent Karen Hauen (Virginia Gilmore) to spy on Roberts. When she discovers that her own father (Erwin Kaiser) is supplying Roberts with vital secrets, she turns her back on the Nazis and joins our hero in his efforts.
bee
The Wife Takes a Flyer
Title: The Wife Takes a Flyer
Character: Capt. Schmutnick
Released: April 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Christopher Reynolds, an American flying with the R.A.F, is shot down over German-occupied Holland and is given shelter by a Dutch family. Posing as the insane husband of the daughter of the house, Anita Wolverman, Reynolds convinces the German officer quartered there, Major Zellfritz, with the necessity for her divorce decree to be granted. After the court-hearing, Anita, goes to manage a home for retired ladies and, persuaded by Reynolds, tries to gain military information from the German Officer. When her former husband escapes from the insane-asylum his exploits are blamed on Reynolds. With the help of the old ladies and Anita, who "remarries" him, Reynolds escapes to England in a stolen German airplane.
bee
Secret Agent of Japan
Title: Secret Agent of Japan
Character: Traeger
Released: April 3, 1942
Type: Movie
World War II espionage drama, starring Preston Foster and Lynn Bari.
bee
Don Winslow of the Navy
Title: Don Winslow of the Navy
Character: The Scorpion
Released: January 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A movie serial in 12 Chapters: US naval officer Don Winslow is given command of Tangita Island, near Pearl Harbor, where a ring of saboteurs is trying to destroy ships carrying supplies to the troops stationed in the islands and sabotage the war effort under orders from an unknown leader.
bee
The People of the Vistula
Title: The People of the Vistula
Released: July 23, 1938
Type: Movie
A look at the lives of people who work on the barges and boats flowing across the Vistula River.
bee
The Vow
Title: The Vow
Character: Mendl Feld
Released: January 2, 1937
Type: Movie
Two friends make a sacred pact pledging their newborn children, Rachel and Mendel, in marriage. Based on the same legend as S. Ansky's classic play The Dybbuk, this spirited film offers the divine intervention of Elijah and a happy ending.
bee
Die Ehe der Frau Mary
Title: Die Ehe der Frau Mary
Released: November 13, 1919
Type: Movie