Frederick Valk

Frederick Valk

Born: June 10, 1895
Died: July 23, 1956
in Hamburg, Germany

Movies for Frederick Valk...

Wicked as They Come
Title: Wicked as They Come
Character: Mr. Reisner
Released: May 22, 1956
Type: Movie
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
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Secret Venture
Title: Secret Venture
Character: Otto Weber
Released: November 10, 1955
Type: Movie
An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret documents that the spies of many different countries seem determined to get.
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I Am a Camera
Title: I Am a Camera
Character: Doctor
Released: July 21, 1955
Type: Movie
Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles and an unusual friendship is born. As Sally feeds her extravagant tastes, Chris goes along for the ride, until their Jewish pal, Fritz, encounters trouble.
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Magic Fire
Title: Magic Fire
Character: Minister von Moll
Released: June 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Director William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Thompson, Yvonne De Carlo, Rita Gam, Alan Badel and Valentina Cortese.
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The Colditz Story
Title: The Colditz Story
Character: Kommandant
Released: January 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "escape-proof" German P.O.W. camp housed in a Medieval castle.
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What Price Freedom
Title: What Price Freedom
Character: Commissar Krause
Released: January 1, 1955
Type: Movie
A young American businessman visits Communist Berlin and meets a young German woman. When the Communist government attempts to pass a resolution condemning the motives of the democracies, the girl defies them. Although even the Communist leadership expresses concern with his government's doctrines, her life remains at risk. The businessman urges the girl to escape with him to the Allied zone, but she refuses, preferring to stay to fight for her ideals.
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Albert R.N.
Title: Albert R.N.
Character: Camp Kommandant
Released: November 23, 1953
Type: Movie
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attempts fail. One of the prisoners constructs a dummy which they christen "Albert" and use at roll call in order to foil the German guards.
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The Flanagan Boy
Title: The Flanagan Boy
Character: Giuseppe Vecchi
Released: April 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the streets developed his natural talent to be a great fighter. His enormous potential to reach the top is born out of a string of spectacular successes. All of which is brought to a halt when he develops a physical relationship with his manager's wife, the beautiful but manipulative Lorna. His naive temperament is no match for her callous, dispassionate scheming and he unwittingly becomes a pawn in Lorna's ultimate plan... .to murder her husband.
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Never Let Me Go
Title: Never Let Me Go
Character: Kuragin
Released: March 18, 1953
Type: Movie
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
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Ho scelto l'amore
Title: Ho scelto l'amore
Character: il sacerdote del convento
Released: March 3, 1953
Type: Movie
A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission to Rome, where he is to deliver a symbolic dove of peace to a group of WW II freedom fighters. Somehow, Boris winds up in Venice minus the dove. As he searches up street and down canal for the missing bird, he meets and falls in love with luscious flower-girl Maria.
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Title: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents
Character: Vanderhof
Released: January 7, 1953
Type: TV
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents, is a 1950s syndicated anthology series hosted and occasionally starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. The series offered Buster Keaton in his first dramatic role in the episode entitled "The Awakening". British actor Christopher Lee appeared in varied role in thirteen episodes, including "Destination Milan". The program aired from 7 January 1953 to 11 February 1957 for a total of 117 episodes. Fairbanks himself starred in forty-eight episodes. In Melbourne, Australia the series was aired under the title Chesebrough Ponds Playhouse.
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Top Secret
Title: Top Secret
Character: Rakov
Released: November 10, 1952
Type: Movie
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he has mistaken for his new plumbing invention. Everyone is hunting for him, including the Russians. The Russians find him and offer him a job in the Kremlin doing research (on plumbing he believes). He accepts, arrives in Russia and falls in love with Tania, a secret agent. And then discovers the true nature of the plans he is carrying...
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The Magic Box
Title: The Magic Box
Character: Maurice Guttenburg
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young and handsome William Green he changed his name to include his first wife's so that it sounded more impressive for the photographic portrait work he was so good at. But he was also an inventor and his search for a way to project moving pictures became an obsession that ultimately changed the life of all those he loved.
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Outcast of the Islands
Title: Outcast of the Islands
Character: Hudig
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Willems flees the resulting disgrace and criminal charges. He persuades the man who gave him his start in life, the merchant ship captain Lingard, to bring him to a trading post on a remote Indonesian island where he can hide out.
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Dear Mr. Prohack
Title: Dear Mr. Prohack
Character: Dr. Viega
Released: September 7, 1949
Type: Movie
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for fiscal prudence is left a great deal of money and has no idea how to cope with sudden personal wealth.
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Saraband for Dead Lovers
Title: Saraband for Dead Lovers
Character: The Elector Ernest Augustus
Released: October 4, 1948
Type: Movie
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
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Mrs. Fitzherbert
Title: Mrs. Fitzherbert
Character: King George III
Released: December 3, 1947
Type: Movie
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fitzherbert. Also portrayed is the conflict between the future George IV and his father George III.
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A Matter of Life and Death
Title: A Matter of Life and Death
Character: RAF Chaplain (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1946
Type: Movie
When a young RAF pilot miraculously survives bailing out of his aeroplane without a parachute, he falls in love with an American radio operator. But the officials in the other world realise their mistake and dispatch an angel to collect him.
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Man: One Family
Title: Man: One Family
Character: Saul
Released: July 25, 1946
Type: Movie
An exposure of the fallacy of race myths; Nazi and Japanese theories about pure blood and master races are contrasted with scientific facts of mixed origins to prove that no nation or race can be considered inferior or superior.
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Frenzy
Title: Frenzy
Character: Dr. Ivan Krasner
Released: February 11, 1946
Type: Movie
A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
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Dead of Night
Title: Dead of Night
Character: Dr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Released: September 9, 1945
Type: Movie
Architect Walter Craig, seeking the possibility of some work at a country farmhouse, soon finds himself once again stuck in his recurring nightmare. Dreading the end of the dream that he knows is coming, he must first listen to all the assembled guests' own bizarre tales.
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Hotel Reserve
Title: Hotel Reserve
Character: Emil Schimler, alias Paul Heimberger
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
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Thunder Rock
Title: Thunder Rock
Character: Dr. Kurtz
Released: December 4, 1942
Type: Movie
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lighthouse in Lake Michigan. He doesn't cash his paychecks and has no contact other than the monthly inspector's visit. When alone, he imagines conversations with those who died when a 19th century packet ship with some 60 passengers sank. He imagines their lives, their problems, their fears and their hopes. In one of these conversations, he recalls his own efforts in the 1930s when he desperately tried to convince first his editors, and later the public, of the dangers of fascism and the inevitability of war. Few would listen. One of the passengers, a spinster, tells her story of seeking independence from a world dominated by men. There's also the case of a doctor who is banished for using unacceptable methods. David has given up on life, but the imaginary passengers give him hope for the future.
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The Patient Vanishes
Title: The Patient Vanishes
Character: Dr. Moger
Released: July 21, 1941
Type: Movie
Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and finds himself in the clutches of a gang of blackmailers.
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Dangerous Moonlight
Title: Dangerous Moonlight
Character: Polish Bomber Commander
Released: June 26, 1941
Type: Movie
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries sustained while in combat, and having lost his memory. As Radetzky plays the piano in a trance-like state, the story moves back in time to war-torn Warsaw. During an air-raid, Radetzky meets American journalist Carole, and there is a mutual attraction. Following the fall of Poland, Radetzky and Irish pilot, Mike, escape to Rumania and then on to America. Radetzky continues his musical career in America and meets up again with Carole.
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Gasbags
Title: Gasbags
Character: Sturmfuehrer
Released: February 1, 1941
Type: Movie
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold) are doing their bit for the war effort by running a fish and chip stall using their platoon's barrage balloon for advertising. Their Sgt Major is not happy about this and orders them to take the balloon down, but a freak heavy wind accidentally carries the gang away to Nazi Germany. They are captured and placed in a detention camp where they meet an elderly prisoner named Jerry, who possess a map for the location of a secret weapon which will win the war! Fortunately Teddy Knox's impersonation of Hitler lands him the spot of pretending to be the Fuhrer at a gala dinner and the gang are allowed out of the camp. However the Nazis have other ideas for their substitute leader.
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Neutral Port
Title: Neutral Port
Character: Captain Traumer
Released: December 6, 1940
Type: Movie
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Captain then strikes back at the German enemy.
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Night Train to Munich
Title: Night Train to Munich
Character: Gestapo Officer
Released: August 31, 1940
Type: Movie
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
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Traitor Spy
Title: Traitor Spy
Character: German Ambassador
Released: December 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.