Oskar Homolka
Birthday: 1898-08-11
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Biography: Oskar Homolka (August 12, 1898 – January 27, 1978) was an Austrian film and theatre actor. Homolka's strong accent, stocky appearance, bushy eyebrows and Slavic-sounding name led many to believe he was Eastern European or Russian, but he was born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary. Description above from the Wikipedia article Oskar Homolka, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
In this Dan Curtis production of the Robert Louis Stevenson classic, Jack Palance stars as Dr. Henry...
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Billion Dollar Brain
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer...
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Nights in Port Said
The niece of a shady tavern-keeper of Port Said, surrounded by dangerous men who haunt the ports, me...
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War and Peace
The love story of young Countess Natasha Rostova and Count Pierre Bezukhov is interwoven with the Gr...
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Comrade X
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Com...
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Sabotage
Karl Anton Verloc and his wife own a small cinema in a quiet London suburb where they live seemingly...
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Funeral in Berlin
Colonel Stok, a Soviet intelligence officer responsible for security at the Berlin Wall, appears to ...
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Boys' Night Out
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred i...
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The Invisible Woman
Kitty Carroll, an attractive store model, volunteers to become a test subject for a machine that wil...
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Seven Sinners
Banished from various U.S. protectorates in the Pacific, a saloon entertainer uses her femme-fatale ...
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Mr. Sardonicus
In 1880, Sir Robert Cargrave, a London physician known for his experimental work in paralysis treatm...
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Ball of Fire
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. Whe...
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I Remember Mama
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a d...
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The Long Ships
Moorish ruler El Mansuh is determined to locate a massive bell made of gold known as the "Mother of ...
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A Farewell to Arms
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but t...
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The Shop at Sly Corner
The French owner of an antique shop, Desius Heiss, has become disillusioned with society since his t...
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Joy in the Morning
Carl Brown and Annie McGairy are in love. Their Irish immigrant parents knew each other in the old c...
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The Madwoman of Chaillot
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the t...
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Mission to Moscow
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to th...
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Anna Lucasta
A prostitute is thrown out of her house by her alcoholic father, and her scheming brother-in-law tri...
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Hostages
After the mysterious disappearance of a German soldier from a Prague cafe, the staff and customers a...
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Prisoner of War
American soldiers, captured by North Korean's, are periodically brainwashed into giving up their cap...
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Brennende Grenze
The story of Brennende Grenze (= Burning Border) starts after the end of WWI. Polish franctireurs in...
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Song of Norway
Like the play from which it derived, the film tells of the early struggles of composer Edvard Grieg ...
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The Executioner
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent....
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Ebb Tide
In 1890, two British expatriates, Robert Herrick and Huish, and German Captain Jakob Thorbecke, are ...
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Everything Is Thunder
The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden ...
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Dreyfus
In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accu...
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Hokuspokus
Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy ...
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The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm
The Grimm brothers Wilhelm and Jacob, known for their literary works in the nineteenth century, have...
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1914: The Last Days Before the War
The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbr...
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Between Night and Dawn
An aging prostitute develops a motherly affection for a kind young man, but her pimp does not approv...
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In the Employ of the Secret Service
During WWI a German agent receives an order to find out when the Russian army will carry out its exp...
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Tragedy of the Street
Auguste is an aging prostitute who falls in love with Felix, a younger student. While Felix has stra...
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The Seven Year Itch
With his family away for their annual summer holiday, a publishing executive decides to live a bache...
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The House of the Arrow
A London solicitor and a French detective investigate the mysterious death of an elderly woman suspe...
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Top Secret
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he ha...
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The White Tower
Mountain climbers in the Swiss Alps mull over past problems while trying to conquer a perilous peak....
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Adventures of a Ten Mark Note
Anna receives her first weekly wage: a ten-mark note with the no. K 13513. She gives it to her mothe...
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The Plot to Kill Stalin
In late 1952, an aging and increasingly paranoid Stalin puts in motion a purge against his doctors, ...
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Assignment to Kill
A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of delibe...
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The Key
In wartime England, circa 1941, poorly-armed tugs are sent into "U-Boat Alley" to rescue damaged All...
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Das Mädchen ohne Heimat
Eva Bennet, a young mysterious widow appears at Pension Sanssouci in Berlin during the Weimar era. S...
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The Happening
A group of young drifters kidnap wealthy businessman Roc Delmonico just for kicks. They keep him cap...
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The Tamarind Seed
During a Caribbean holiday, a British civil servant finds herself falling in love with a Russian age...
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Rhodes of Africa
Rhodes of Africa is a 1936 British biographical film charting the life of Cecil Rhodes. It was direc...
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The Green Alley
An ill-fated love affair between a brothel waitress and a doctor's son....
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Road to Rio
A young woman causes a fatal accident. She flees the country, only to get caught in the net of Brasi...
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Play of the Week: Rashomon
Several different accounts of the same incident tell quite different stories about what happened....
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Tempest
A young officer in the army of Empress Catherine of Russia is on his way to his new duty station at ...
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Mooncussers
A young boy discovers the existence of a group called the Mooncussers - a gang of pirates that work ...
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Heart of Darkness
A trading company manager travels up an African river to find a missing outpost head and discovers t...
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One of Our Own
Dr Jake Goodwin is the chief neurosurgeon at a busy city hospital. As he makes his rounds, Goodwin b...
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The Cafeteria
An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparantly delusional young woman and her i...
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Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter
Dutch police inspector Piet Van der Valk finds himself repeatedly crossing paths wiht the beautiful ...
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Berlin: Part 1
A spirtual successor to Manny Velazquez's underground independent cult horror film Savage High (2015...
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In the Presence of Mine Enemies
Rod Serling's teleplay depicting the struggles of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto in the months bef...
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