Biography
Frederick Valk (10 June 1895 β 23 July 1956) 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.
Despite making his later career in the English-speaking world, Valk never attempted to shed his heavy accent in either his stage or film work, and it became a trademark, particularly in film where he was often the first choice for a role which called for a German or generic Central European accent.
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Filmography
all 29
Movies 28
TV Shows 1
Mr. Reisner
Wicked as They Come (1956)
Movie
Otto Weber
Secret Venture (1955)
Movie
Doctor
I Am a Camera (1955)
Movie
Minister von Moll
Magic Fire (1955)
Movie
Kommandant
The Colditz Story (1955)
Movie
Commissar Krause
What Price Freedom (1955)
Movie
Camp Kommandant
Albert R.N. (1953)
Movie
Giuseppe Vecchi
The Flanagan Boy (1953)
Movie
Kuragin
Never Let Me Go (1953)
Movie
il sacerdote del convento
Ho scelto l'amore (1953)
Movie
Vanderhof
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents (1953)
TV
Rakov
Top Secret (1952)
Movie
Maurice Guttenburg
The Magic Box (1952)
Movie
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Hudig
Outcast of the Islands (1951)
Movie
Dr. Viega
Dear Mr. Prohack (1949)
Movie
The Elector Ernest Augustus
Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948)
Movie
King George III
Mrs. Fitzherbert (1947)
Movie
RAF Chaplain (uncredited)
A Matter of Life and Death (1946)
Movie
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Saul
Man: One Family (1946)
Movie
Dr. Krasner
Frenzy (1946)
Movie
Dr. Van Straaten (Segment 'Linking Story' & 'The Ventriloquist's Dummy')
Dead of Night (1945)
Movie
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Emil Schimler, alias Paul Heimberger
Hotel Reserve (1944)
Movie
Dr. Kurtz
Thunder Rock (1942)
Movie
Dr. Moger
The Patient Vanishes (1941)
Movie
Polish Bomber Commander
Dangerous Moonlight (1941)
Movie
Sturmfuehrer
Gasbags (1941)
Movie
Captain Traumer
Neutral Port (1940)
Movie
Gestapo Officer
Night Train to Munich (1940)
Movie
German Ambassador
Traitor Spy (1939)
Movie
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Information
Known ForActing
GenderMale
Birthday1895-06-10
Deathday1956-07-23 (61 years old)
Birth PlaceElberfeld, Germany
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, German Empire, Weimar Republic, Nazi Germany, United Kingdom
ResidencesPrague, Czech Republic
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