Acting
Frederick Valk
Born June 10, 1895 · Hamburg, Germany
Died July 23, 1956 · aged 61
Frederick Valk was a German-born Jewish stage and screen actor of Czech Jewish descent who fled to the United Kingdom in the late 1930s to escape Nazi persecution, and subsequently became a naturalised British citizen.
Known For
A Matter of Life and Death · 1946A Matter of Life and Death
★ 7.71946
MovieRomanceFantasy
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping to prolong his fledgling romance with an American girl.
Dead of Night · 1945Dead of Night
★ 7.21945
MovieHorrorThriller
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
Night Train to Munich · 1940Night Train to Munich
★ 7.21940
MovieDramaThriller
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
Zarak · 1956Zarak
★ 5.41956
MovieRomanceAction
A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.
Saraband for Dead Lovers · 1948Saraband for Dead Lovers
★ 6.61948
MovieRomanceHistory
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover. George Louis is later crowned King George I of England. Despairing of ever experiencing true love, the depressed queen finds life at court no solace. Sophie then falls for a dashing Swedish soldier of fortune, Count Konigsmark.
The Colditz Story · 1955The Colditz Story
★ 6.81955
MovieWarDrama
The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.
Magic Fire · 1955Magic Fire
★ 5.01955
MovieDramaRomance
In the middle of the 19th-century, when the social structure of Europe is about to be reshaped, the world of music is shaken by one man: Richard Wagner.
Never Let Me Go · 1953Never Let Me Go
★ 5.91953
MovieRomanceDrama
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
Filmography
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Dead of Night · 1945Dead of Night
★ 7.21945
MovieHorrorThriller
An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.
Dr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
Hotel Reserve · 1944Hotel Reserve
★ 6.71944
MovieThrillerDrama
A hunt for a spy in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
Emil Schimler, alias Paul Heimberger















