Oskar Homolka
Acting
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.
Born: August 11, 1898
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Known For
Nachtkolonne
The film begins in a Berlin club with Trude Berliner singing as gangsters plan a burglary at a Hamburg hotel. At the hotel, Orbeliani leads the band while his wife Olga sings their son Jascha to sleep. During the heist, Jascha wakes, screams, and is knocked down. The gangsters flee to Berlin with stolen jewels and the unconscious Jascha. Homolka, one of the gangsters, refuses to abandon the boy, nurses him back to health, and pretends to be his uncle, claiming his parents are on an American tour. Homolka develops motherly feelings, facing ridicule from his friends and Trude Berliner.
Film Emigration from Nazi Germany
Based on extensive interviews, shot on 16mm in a series of static long takes, Filmemigration aus Nazideutschland, is one of the most fascinating examples of "Film history on film" ever produced. Straschek devoted years to researching the topic and accumulating both film and non-film materials. Apart from some radio features and articles, however, this 290-minute TV programme remains the only published trace of Straschek's lifelong work on the emigration of film personnel. He had intended to publish a three-volume book, encompassing all available data about 3,000 emigrants originating from the centre and peripheries of film production, but the book never materialised.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Alfred Hitchcock Presents
A television anthology series hosted by Alfred Hitchcock featuring dramas, thrillers, and mysteries.
Ball of Fire
A group of academics have spent years shut up in a house working on the definitive encyclopedia. When one of them discovers that his entry on slang is hopelessly outdated, he ventures into the wide world to learn about the evolving language. Here he meets Sugarpuss O’Shea, a nightclub singer, who’s on top of all the slang—and, it just so happens, needs a place to stay.
Breaking Point
I Remember Mama
Norwegian immigrant Marta Hanson keeps a firm but loving hand on her household of four children, a devoted husband and a highly-educated lodger who reads great literature to the family every evening. Through financial crises, illnesses and the small triumphs of everyday life, Marta maintains her optimism and sense of humor, traits she passes on to her aspiring-author daughter, Katrin.
The Madwoman of Chaillot
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the traditional beliefs of others. The story is set in a 20th-century society endangered by power and greed and imagines the rebellion of the "little people" against corrupt and soulless authority.
The Seven Year Itch
When his family goes away for summer vacation, a hitherto faithful publishing executive with an overactive imagination is tempted by an attractive new neighbor.
Filmography
as Verlac (archive footage)
as Dr. Helmut Von Schulthers
as Hoofdcommissaris Samson
as Father
as General Golitsyn
as Father
as Father Dimitrius
as Zoltan Kolas
as Engstrand
as Racovsky
as The Commissar
as Inspector Ruff
as General Stok
as Sam
as Colonel Stok
as Stan Pulaski
as Krok
as Janek Cybowski
as Urias Hawke
as The Duke ('The Dream')
as Dr. Prokosch
as Krull
as Ghoul
as Pierre Jacquelin
as Josef Chinik
as Savelic
as The Doctor
as Khrushchev
as Van Dam
as Dr. Emerich
as Field Marshal Kutuzov
as Carl Kaminsky
as Carpius
as Jan Vander Klaue / Mr A J Keyser
as Dr. Brubaker
as Christy Christakos
as Col. Nikita I. Biroshilov
as Inspector Hanaud
as King
as Zekov
as Jeno Reinitz
as Dr.Herbert Hirth
as Andreas (as Oscar Homolka)
as Joe Lucasta
as Uncle Chris
as Desius Heiss
as Lev Pressinger
as Maxim Litvinov
as Prof. Gurkakoff
as Dr. Rameau
as Blackie
as Commissar Vasiliev
as Antro
as Capt. Jakob Therbecke
as Karl Verloc - Her Husband
as Detective Schenck Gotz
as Ohm Paul Kruger
as James Godfrey
as Robert Keßler
as André Carno
as Lanskoi
as Anton
as Sergei Dmitrijewitsch Sasonow
as Ricardo Gabiano
as Major Ferdinand Walsin-Esterházy
as Gerichtspräsident Grandt
as Dr. Horner
as Fridolin Bortis
as Anton - Pimp
as Der Matrose
as Director Haniel