Karl John

Acting

Karl John

Born — Died

1905-03-24 — 1977-12-22

Place of birth

Cologne, Germany

Known for

Acting

Credits

74 titles

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

Known for

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

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.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Derrick poster
6.0

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.

Derrick

1974

Dalli Dalli poster
9.3

No synopsis available yet.

Dalli Dalli

1971

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Zum blauen Bock

1957

The Commissioner poster
8.0

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.

The Commissioner

1969

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

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.

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

Film credits

1970s · 6 titles

1960s · 18 titles

The Longest Day poster
7.6

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"

The Longest Day

1962

The Mysterious Magician poster
6.7

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.

The Mysterious Magician

1964

Again the Ringer poster
6.2

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.

Again the Ringer

1965

This Time it Must Be Caviar poster
7.2

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...

This Time it Must Be Caviar

1961

Fabrik der Offiziere poster
9.0

An army war school during the WWII: first Lieutenant Krafft has a strong sense of justice. This has often brought him into disrepute with his previous superiors and he has been transferred several times as a result. With his new position in an officer's school, he hopes to survive the war and tries to avoid further conflicts. However, Krafft is entrusted with an investigation by his general - a supervising officer has been blown to pieces by an explosive charge during an engineer exercise. Although the chief field judge rules the man's death an accident, Krafft reconstructs the events and proves that it was a case of murder. Ensign Hochbauer, who was in the party's favor, is said to have deliberately shortened the fuse during the explosive exercise, as a result of which the supervising officer was unable to get to safety in time.

Fabrik der Offiziere

1960

Detective Story poster
5.3

No synopsis available yet.

Detective Story

1963

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Wenn der junge Wein blüht

1967

Sacred Waters poster
6.9

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.

Sacred Waters

1960

No artwork available
NR

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Schatten der Helden

1960

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hoffnung ist ein Ding mit Federn

1961

Hinter diesen Mauern poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Hinter diesen Mauern

1966

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der spanische Bürgerkrieg

1969

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Die Flucht nach Holland

1967

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

So war Mama

1969

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Madame Sans-Gêne

1960

Hermann und Dorothea poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Hermann und Dorothea

1961

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Verbotenes Land

1967

Oberst Wennerström poster
8.0

Swedish military attaché Stig Wennerström comes into contact with the US secret service at a party. After a trip to Moscow, he provides the Americans with valuable information about Soviet jets. But Wennerström is playing a double game. Lieutenant General Aratov, a Russian officer, approaches him and becomes his partner in shady dealings. For three years, the double agent game works. But then the Soviet secret service discovers that Colonel Wennerström is also working for the class enemy. The Swede is forced to spy exclusively for the Soviets from then on and goes to the American capital...

Oberst Wennerström

1965

1950s · 14 titles

The Man Between poster
7.2

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.

The Man Between

1953

The Devil's General poster
6.9

The adaptation of the eponymous play by Carl Zuckmayer tells the story of renegade general Harras of the German Luftwaffe, who during WWII openly criticizes the Nazi regime. As a consequence, he is put under surveillance, and even imprisoned for a brief period of time. Still remaining outspoken, Harras realizes the horrific dimensions of this hopeless and injust war waged by Germany.

The Devil's General

1955

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever? poster
7.3

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.

Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?

1959

The Lost One poster
6.8

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.

The Lost One

1951

No Way Back poster
7.4

A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war.

No Way Back

1954

Smuggler's Ball poster
5.8

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.

Smuggler's Ball

1952

2 x Adam, 1 x Eva poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

2 x Adam, 1 x Eva

1959

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Inspektor Tondi

1952

Furlough on Word of Honor poster
7.5

No synopsis available yet.

Furlough on Word of Honor

1955

No artwork available
NR

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Die gute Sieben

1959

No artwork available
NR

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Jeden die Seine

1954

No artwork available
NR

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Das heilige Experiment

1955

No artwork available
NR

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Schiff ohne Hafen

1956

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Möwen über Sorrent

1956

1940s · 16 titles

In Those Days poster
6.9

A car tells its story and the story of its seven owners during the years of the Third Reich.

In Those Days

1947

Stukas poster
5.6

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.

Stukas

1941

Melody of a Great City poster
7.8

A young woman moves to Berlin to work as a press photographer.

Melody of a Great City

1943

Kora Terry poster
5.5

When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires the Terrys out of necessity, whose parents were successful variety artists, but who had not yet received an engagement themselves. Both are supported by Tobs, a friend of their parents. While blonde Mara Terry arrives punctually for the first rehearsal, her dark-haired sister Kora is late like a diva and acts aloof and snippy. At their first performance together the next day, Kora is overtired from partying the night before. During a dangerous act in which she has to balance her upside-down sister on her head, she becomes careless...

Kora Terry

1940

Fahrt ins Leben poster
6.2

The four sailing school cadets Gerhard, Fritz, Kurt, and Christian are close friends; there's hardly anything they don't do together. But when the charming Gerhard begins a romance with Charlotte, his comrade Christian's childhood sweetheart, a shadow falls over their close bond. Then, when the four young men are involved in an accident during a nighttime trip on the school ship's pinnace, their friendship is put to another severe test. While three of them manage to raise the money for the repairs, Kurt, unable to contribute his share, lies to his comrades, claiming he has already put the money into the communal kitty.

Fahrt ins Leben

1940

Unser Mittwochabend poster
8.0

Berlin, early post-war period. Several friends meet every Wednesday evening to escape the gray monotony of the city and their lives. They are a diverse group of characters with very different destinies. There is, for example, young Grita, who is gradually beginning to separate from her husband Georg because he is becoming increasingly addicted to gambling. She finds new love with the engineer Erik. But the young refugee girl Henny has also fallen in love with the handsome engineer.

Unser Mittwochabend

1948

No artwork available
6.5

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.

My Life for Ireland

1941

Andreas Schlüter poster
5.8

Historical drama portraying the life of German baroque architect Andreas Schlüter.

Andreas Schlüter

1942

Two in a Big City poster
6.3

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.

Two in a Big City

1942

Über alles in der Welt poster
6.0

Nazi propaganda film chronicling the plight of Germans caught by the outbreak of war in 1939 and their frantic attempts to return to the Fatherland to join the battle.

Über alles in der Welt

1941

The Way to Freedom poster
7.0

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...

The Way to Freedom

1941

U-Boat, Course West! poster
6.8

This Nazi propaganda film follows the exploits of a German submarine as it prowls the North Atlantic.

U-Boat, Course West!

1941

Love '47 poster
7.7

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.

Love '47

1949

Die unvollkommene Liebe poster
8.0

In Bremen, a ship is launched, which was built by Thomas Holk. That evening, he gets to know the middle-aged widow Ada Rasmus, who flirts heavily with him. The next day, Thomas travels to Hallbad on vacation and the two lose sign of each other. In this rural idyll, he gets to know Krist and falls in love with her. He takes her back with him to Bremen and his aunt introduces her into society. Her natural charms enchants everyone and the beautiful widow Ada swears revenge. She finds a way to bring Ada into a painful situation with Dr. von Cremona, and, to top it all off, a man’s coat is found in her room.

Die unvollkommene Liebe

1940

The Last Night poster
7.0

Set in German-occupied France in 1944 where a female resistance operative and a German army officer fall in love.

The Last Night

1949

Bal paré poster
6.2

At the turn of the century in Munich, a ballerina accepts the sponsorship of an older industrialist but also spends time with his son.

Bal paré

1940

1930s · 6 titles

The Private's Job poster
6.2

During the Great War, German soldiers are persuaded to die heroically in order to take a French village held by the British.

The Private's Job

1937

The Laugh Doctor poster
8.5

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.

The Laugh Doctor

1937

When the Cock Crows poster
10.0

Early morning romantic excursions in a North German village under the thumb of a crusty old mayor.

When the Cock Crows

1936

The White Demon poster
10.0

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.

The White Demon

1932

Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming poster
10.0

Portrait photographer Lu Tiemann owns a white wire-haired terrier named "Stork." For Lu, the charming dog has a very specific purpose: to either jump into parked cars with men at the wheel, thereby attracting their attention, or to hide inside the car and emerge while it's moving – with the same result. When the driver then wants to get a closer look at the "crazy" dog, the following inscription can be read on his collar: "My name is Stork, owned by Lu Tiemann, Regentenstrasse 17." Many well-to-do gentlemen fall for this approach, such as a portly consul or a factory owner and privy councillor, next to whom "Stork" brazenly positions himself on the passenger seat.

Child, I'm Happy on Your Coming

1933

White Slaves poster
5.5

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.

White Slaves

1937

Series credits

Scene of the Crime poster
6.2

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.

Scene of the Crime

1970

Derrick poster
6.0

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.

Derrick

1974

Dalli Dalli poster
9.3

No synopsis available yet.

Dalli Dalli

1971

No artwork available
6.3

No synopsis available yet.

Zum blauen Bock

1957

The Commissioner poster
8.0

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.

The Commissioner

1969

The Commissioner poster
8.0

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.

The Commissioner

1969

Das Kriminalmuseum poster
8.0

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.

Das Kriminalmuseum

1963

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sie schreiben mit

1958

Drüben bei Lehmanns poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Drüben bei Lehmanns

1970

Es geschah an der Grenze poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Es geschah an der Grenze

1960

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Spannende Geschichten

1978

Babeck poster
9.5

No synopsis available yet.

Babeck

1968

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

So zärtlich war Suleyken

1971

Behind the camera