Karl John

Karl John

Born: March 24, 1905
Died: December 22, 1977
in Cologne, Germany
Karl John (24 March 1905 – 22 December 1977) was a German film actor who appeared in more than 50 films between 1933 and 1977.

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Title: Spannende Geschichten
Character: Obrist
Released: March 25, 1978
Type: TV
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Sorcerer
Title: Sorcerer
Character: 'Marquez'
Released: June 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
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Entführung
Title: Entführung
Character: v. Weizsaecker
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: Derrick
Character: Euler
Released: October 20, 1974
Type: TV
Derrick was a German TV series produced by Telenova Film und Fernsehproduktion in association with ZDF, ORF and SRG between 1974 and 1998 about Detective Chief Inspector Stephan Derrick and his loyal assistant Inspector Harry Klein, who solve murder cases in Munich and surroundings.
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Dandelions
Title: Dandelions
Character: Ricks Vater
Released: October 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Rick (Rutger Hauer), a disaffected sailor turned hard drinking womanizer, returns home from six months at sea to find his wife (Corrigan), whom he was deeply in love, has unexpectedly left him and is now a junkie whore. Devastated, he tries to ease his pain with booze and cheap thrills. His wife's best friend (Dagmar Lassander) makes a move on him, and when he spurns her (after scewing her first, naturally) she plots her revenge. She does so in an ingenious way, by exploiting a fantasy woman of his, but her plan backfires with tragic consequences.
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Sabine
Title: Sabine
Character: Dr. Gerd Hesse
Released: October 10, 1974
Type: Movie
This German educational film about sexually transmitted diseases, through a mixture of medical imagery and love making scenes, makes the case for a timely medical treatment of gonorrhea and syphilis, and underpins this plea primarily with blatant clinical evidence of the syphilitic secondary stage.
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Land
Title: Land
Character: Albrecht Rotter
Released: January 26, 1972
Type: Movie
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Title: So zärtlich war Suleyken
Released: December 20, 1971
Type: TV
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Title: Dalli Dalli
Character: Self - Candidate
Released: May 13, 1971
Type: TV
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Title: Drüben bei Lehmanns
Character: Herr Arend
Released: December 30, 1970
Type: TV
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Bornimann
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Peenemünde
Title: Peenemünde
Character: General von Axthelm
Released: August 11, 1970
Type: Movie
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So war Mama
Title: So war Mama
Character: Onkel Chris
Released: March 22, 1969
Type: Movie
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Der spanische Bürgerkrieg
Title: Der spanische Bürgerkrieg
Character: Largo Caballero
Released: January 8, 1969
Type: Movie
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Title: Der Kommissar
Character: Herr Kerk
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: TV
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
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Title: Der Kommissar
Character: Dr. Crantz
Released: January 3, 1969
Type: TV
Der Kommissar is a German television series about a group of detectives of the Munich homicide squad. All 97 episodes, which were shot in black-and-white and first broadcast between 1969 and 1976, were written by Herbert Reinecker and starred Erik Ode as Kommissar Herbert Keller. Keller's assistants were Walter Grabert, Robert Heines, and Harry Klein who, in 1974, was replaced by his younger brother Erwin Klein.
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Die Flucht nach Holland
Title: Die Flucht nach Holland
Character: Bill Drews
Released: December 22, 1967
Type: Movie
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Wenn der junge Wein blüht
Title: Wenn der junge Wein blüht
Character: Propst Hall
Released: January 21, 1967
Type: Movie
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Verbotenes Land
Title: Verbotenes Land
Character: Dr. Joseph Breuer
Released: January 15, 1967
Type: Movie
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Hinter diesen Mauern
Title: Hinter diesen Mauern
Character: Rees Mathry
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
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Oberst Wennerström
Title: Oberst Wennerström
Character: Verteidiger
Released: October 25, 1965
Type: Movie
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Again the Ringer
Title: Again the Ringer
Character: Dr. Mills
Released: June 4, 1965
Type: Movie
Arthur Milton aka Der Hexer (The Magician/Ringer) must return to London after his calling card was left at the scene of a murder he did not commit.
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The Mysterious Magician
Title: The Mysterious Magician
Character: Shelby
Released: August 21, 1964
Type: Movie
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named "The Hexer" is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that "The Hexer" will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if "The Hexer" may get away yet again.
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Detective Story
Title: Detective Story
Character: Lieutenant Monoghan
Released: April 27, 1963
Type: Movie
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Title: Das Kriminalmuseum
Character: Herbert Mansfeld
Released: April 4, 1963
Type: TV
Das Kriminalmuseum was a German television series. It ran from 1963 to 1970 on ZDF and was one of its first programs. Each episode began with a tracking shot through an unspecified crime museum, stopping at one of the displays, whose story was then told. Each episode was between 60 and 75 minutes long and featured different actors as the criminal commissioner. The best known was Erik Ode, who in 1969 moved to Der Kommissar, appearing in 97 episodes. The theme music of the series was written by German composer Martin Böttcher, who also composed the complete scores for five episodes.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Character: Gen. Wolfgang Hager
Released: September 25, 1962
Type: Movie
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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This Time it Must Be Caviar
Title: This Time it Must Be Caviar
Character: Debras
Released: December 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Thomas Lieven is a German secret agent trying to leave that profession, to live a peaceful life. Adventure is too strong an appeal, he starts working again, and soon it's difficult to say if he is doing his job, or turned out as double agent for England, France or even communist Russia! To save his skin, he'll do - almost - anything, to anyone...
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Hermann und Dorothea
Title: Hermann und Dorothea
Character: Apotheker
Released: June 25, 1961
Type: Movie
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Hoffnung ist ein Ding mit Federn
Title: Hoffnung ist ein Ding mit Federn
Character: Steve
Released: June 8, 1961
Type: Movie
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Fabrik der Offiziere
Title: Fabrik der Offiziere
Character: Major Frey
Released: December 29, 1960
Type: Movie
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Sacred Waters
Title: Sacred Waters
Character: Seppi Blatter
Released: December 23, 1960
Type: Movie
Water is a scarce and sometimes dangerous resource in the Swiss Mountain Village. Anytime the wooden pipe is damaged and the supply breaks, one man from the village is determined by "unlucky" draw to take on the life-threatening repairs.
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Title: Madame Sans-Gêne
Character: Lefèbvre
Released: December 18, 1960
Type: Movie
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Schatten der Helden
Title: Schatten der Helden
Character: László Rajk
Released: April 27, 1960
Type: Movie
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Title: Es geschah an der Grenze
Character: Karl Haberschlag
Released: February 24, 1960
Type: TV
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2 x Adam, 1 x Eva
Title: 2 x Adam, 1 x Eva
Character: Wickström
Released: October 1, 1959
Type: Movie
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Die gute Sieben
Title: Die gute Sieben
Character: Jonny Roland
Released: May 8, 1959
Type: Movie
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Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
Title: Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?
Character: Generaloberst Hoth
Released: April 7, 1959
Type: Movie
In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.
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Title: Sie schreiben mit
Released: January 10, 1958
Type: TV
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Title: Zum blauen Bock
Character: Self
Released: August 3, 1957
Type: TV
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Möwen über Sorrent
Title: Möwen über Sorrent
Character: Cleland
Released: September 12, 1956
Type: Movie
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Schiff ohne Hafen
Title: Schiff ohne Hafen
Character: Schiffarzt Richters
Released: April 28, 1956
Type: Movie
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Furlough on Word of Honor
Title: Furlough on Word of Honor
Character: Köhler
Released: December 30, 1955
Type: Movie
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Das heilige Experiment
Title: Das heilige Experiment
Character: Ladislaus Oros
Released: May 30, 1955
Type: Movie
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The Devil's General
Title: The Devil's General
Character: Ingenieur Karl Oderbruch
Released: February 23, 1955
Type: Movie
Curt Jurgens stars as a courageous Luftwaffe officer. Jurgens loves the service, even though he barely tolerates the Hitler regime. Sickened by wartime Nazi atrocities, Jurgens renounces his government, and is imprisoned and tortured as a result. Once released, the general takes pity on a downtrodden Jewish family. This isolated act of kindness is a point in his favor when Jurgens stands before Satan himself for his final judgment. The Devil's General was based on an immensely successful postwar play by German author Carl Zuckmeyer.
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Jeden die Seine
Title: Jeden die Seine
Character: Lorenz, der Schauspieler
Released: May 27, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Man Between
Title: The Man Between
Character: Inspector Kleiber
Released: November 18, 1953
Type: Movie
A British woman on a visit to post-war Berlin is caught up in an espionage ring smuggling secrets into and out of the Eastern Bloc.
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No Way Back
Title: No Way Back
Character: Friedrich Schultz
Released: November 6, 1953
Type: Movie
A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war.
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Smuggler's Ball
Title: Smuggler's Ball
Character: Hans
Released: June 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders separating Belgium, Holland and France. It is here that the worldly Pierre (J. P. Kieran) carries on a profitable smuggling operation, all the while romancing Siska (Christian Lenier), the daughter of a local customs official. Various subplots and secondary characters weave in and out as the plotline guides the viewer through the WW II years. Towards the end, the story shifts gears when the Benelux Frontier Agreement eliminates all government regulations. The film's screenplay is by Charles Spaak, himself the descendant of a Belgian political family, and thus well-versed in bureaucracy and red tape.
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The Lost One
Title: The Lost One
Character: Hösch, alias Nowak
Released: September 7, 1951
Type: Movie
A German scientist murders his fiancée during World War II when he learns that she has been selling the results of his secret research to the enemy.
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Love '47
Title: Love '47
Character: Beckmann
Released: November 25, 1949
Type: Movie
A young man and woman meet on a bridge, both about to commit suicide by jumping into the river, and recount to each other their experiences.
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The Last Night
Title: The Last Night
Character: Harald Buchner, Oberleutnant
Released: February 11, 1949
Type: Movie
Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.
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Unser Mittwochabend
Title: Unser Mittwochabend
Released: November 23, 1948
Type: Movie
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In Those Days
Title: In Those Days
Character: Peter Keyser
Released: June 13, 1947
Type: Movie
A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.
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Melody of a Great City
Title: Melody of a Great City
Character: Klaus Nolte
Released: October 4, 1943
Type: Movie
A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.
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Andreas Schlüter
Title: Andreas Schlüter
Character: Bildhauer Martin Böhme, ihr Bräutigam
Released: September 11, 1942
Type: Movie
Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.
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Two in a Big City
Title: Two in a Big City
Character: Bernd Birckhoff
Released: January 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A German soldier on leave in Berlin goes looking for his pen pal who he has never met called Gisela. He meets instead a woman with the same name and falls in love with her.
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Stukas
Title: Stukas
Character: Oberleutnant Lothar Loos
Released: June 27, 1941
Type: Movie
This Nazi propaganda film details the exploits of a group of German Luftwaffe pilots flying Stukas--fighter-bombers--in the Battle of France in the early days of World War II.
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U-Boat, Course West!
Title: U-Boat, Course West!
Character: Matrosenobergefreiter Drewitz
Released: May 9, 1941
Type: Movie
This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic.
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Der Weg ins Freie
Title: Der Weg ins Freie
Character: Fritz
Released: May 6, 1941
Type: Movie
In Vienna, during the 1848 Revolution, opera singer Antonia Corvelli marries Detlev von Blossin, a rich landowner. But, as she refuses to give up her career, her infuriated husband returns to Pomerania without her. After falling into the clutches of the cruel and wicked count Stefan Oginski, whose lover she unfortunately becomes, Antonia has no other choice but to pass for dead in order to escape him. She then returns to Italy where she joins small theater companies under various aliases. Until one day she is overtaken by her fate...
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Über alles in der Welt
Title: Über alles in der Welt
Character: Oberleutnant Hassenkamp
Released: March 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Nazi cinema produced numerous WW2 military epics, one of the most impressive of which is Ufa's first-rate 1941 production, Uber Alles in der Welt,directed by Karl Ritter (Stukas). Ritter customarily produced morale-building propaganda pictures, and this, his first propaganda film to deal with the war, as well as his finest effort, was one of the highest-grossing pictures of the Third Reich. Set largely in France, England, and Spain, the film chronicles the plight of Germans caught by the outbreak of war and their frantic attempts to return to the Fatherland to join the battle. All of Germany's enemies receive equal disdain. The British, the French, the Poles, and the Jews are portrayed respectively as warmongers, profiteers and cowards. In the end, all that is important is returning to Germany.
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My Life for Ireland
Title: My Life for Ireland
Character: Raymond Davitt
Released: January 2, 1941
Type: Movie
A Nazi propaganda movie from 1941 directed by Max W. Kimmich, covering a story of Irish heroism and martyrdom over two generations under the occupation of the British.
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Kora Terry
Title: Kora Terry
Character: Chef der Kraftmännertruppe
Released: November 27, 1940
Type: Movie
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Die unvollkommene Liebe
Title: Die unvollkommene Liebe
Character: Gustl
Released: October 17, 1940
Type: Movie
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Bal paré
Title: Bal paré
Character: Franz Stanglmayer
Released: May 22, 1940
Type: Movie
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Fahrt ins Leben
Title: Fahrt ins Leben
Character: Seekadett Gerhard Bartels
Released: April 29, 1940
Type: Movie
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The Laugh Doctor
Title: The Laugh Doctor
Character: Peter Karst
Released: November 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Because the soulful county doctor in a small spa town in the mountains has interfered with the business of selling "healing waters", he incurs the enmity of the local shopkeepers. And for that reason, his candidacy for the post of District Medical Officer is thwarted.
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Operation Michael
Title: Operation Michael
Character: Leutnant Hassenkamp
Released: September 6, 1937
Type: Movie
During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.
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White Slaves
Title: White Slaves
Character: Graf Kostja Wolfgoff
Released: January 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Russia, 1917. Revolution is in the air. The Sevastopol anchors In Saint Petersburg. The sailors are thirsty for women and celebration. The ship becomes a dancehall. Bloodbath, pillage and kidnapping follows. A Nazi/Germany propaganda film.
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When the Cock Crows
Title: When the Cock Crows
Character: Piepers Gustav
Released: March 23, 1936
Type: Movie
Early morning romantic excursions in a North German village under the thumb of a crusty old mayor.
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Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen
Title: Kind, ich freu' mich auf Dein Kommen
Released: June 25, 1933
Type: Movie
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The White Demon
Title: The White Demon
Released: November 19, 1932
Type: Movie
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase.