Karl John

Acting

Karl John

Born 1905-03-24 · Cologne, Germany

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

Acting credits

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

Sorcerer poster
7.5

Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.

Sorcerer

1977

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

Andreas Schlüter poster
5.8

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

Andreas Schlüter

1942

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

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Peenemünde

1970

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

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Der spanische Bürgerkrieg

1969

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 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

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

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

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

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Inspektor Tondi

1952

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

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

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

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

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Land

1972

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 artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Entführung

1976

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

Behind the camera