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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1898-08-11 (126 years old)

Place of Birth

Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Oskar Homolka

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.

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Known For

Acting

2016

Berlin: Part 1 as Verlac (archive footage)

1975

One of Our Own as Dr. Helmut Von Schulthers

1974

The Tamarind Seed as General Golitsyn
The Cafeteria as Father
Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter as Hoofdcommissaris Samson

1973

Kojak as Father Dimitrius

1972

The Protectors as Zoltan Kolas

1970

Song of Norway as Engstrand
The Executioner as Racovsky

1969

The Madwoman of Chaillot as The Commissar

1968

Assignment to Kill as Inspector Ruff

1967

Billion Dollar Brain as General Stok

1966

Funeral in Berlin as Colonel Stok

1965

Joy in the Morning as Stan Pulaski

1964

1963

Burke's Law as Janek Cybowski

1962

Boys' Night Out as Dr. Prokosch
Mooncussers as Urias Hawke

1961

1960

Thriller as Pierre Jacquelin

1958

The Key as Van Dam
Tempest as Savelic
Heart of Darkness as The Doctor

1957

A Farewell to Arms as Dr. Emerich

1956

War and Peace as Field Marshal Kutuzov

1955

The Seven Year Itch as Dr. Brubaker
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Carl Kaminsky
Alfred Hitchcock Presents as Jan Vander Klaue / Mr A J Keyser

1954

Prisoner of War as Col. Nikita I. Biroshilov
Climax! as Christy Christakos

1953

The House of the Arrow as Inspector Hanaud

1952

Top Secret as Zekov
Cavalcade of America as Jeno Reinitz

1951

Der schweigende Mund as Dr.Herbert Hirth

1950

The White Tower as Andreas (as Oscar Homolka)

1949

Anna Lucasta as Joe Lucasta

1948

I Remember Mama as Uncle Chris

1947

The Shop at Sly Corner as Desius Heiss

1943

Mission to Moscow as Maxim Litvinov
Hostages as Lev Pressinger

1941

Rage in Heaven as Dr. Rameau
Ball of Fire as Prof. Gurkakoff

1940

Comrade X as Commissar Vasiliev
Seven Sinners as Antro

1937

Sabotage as Karl Verloc - Her Husband
Ebb Tide as Capt. Jakob Therbecke

1936

Everything Is Thunder as Detective Schenck Gotz
Rhodes of Africa as Ohm Paul Kruger

1933

Unsichtbare Gegner as James Godfrey
Moral und Liebe as Robert Keßler

1932

Night column as André Carno

1931

1914 as Sergei Dmitrijewitsch Sasonow
Road to Rio as Ricardo Gabiano

1930

Dreyfus as Major Ferdinand Walsin-Esterházy
Hokuspokus as Gerichtspräsident Grandt

1928

The Green Alley as Dr. Horner
Prince or Clown as Zurube
Schinderhannes as Amtmann

1927

Brennende Grenze as Der Matrose
Tragedy of the Street as Anton - Pimp

1926