Oskar Homolka Net Worth
Oskar Homolka Net Worth is
$1.1 Million
Oskar Homolka Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Because of his heavy generically "European" accent and Slavic-sounding surname (not an uncommon one among Czechs or Slovaks), many people assumed Oscar Homolka was Eastern European or Russian. In fact, he was born in Vienna (then Austria-Hungary), the multicultural capital of a large multi-ethnic empire at the time. It was there he began his ... | Date Of Birth | August 12, 1898 |
| Died | 1978-01-01 |
| Place Of Birth | Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria] |
| Profession | Actor |
| Spouse | Grete Mosheim, Baroness Vally Hatvany her death, Florence Meyer, Joan Tetzel her death |
| Children | Vincent and Laurence, --Laurence Homolka, --Vincent Homolka, with Meyer: |
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| 1 | He played Adolf Verloc in two adaptations of the 1907 novel "The Secret Agent" by Joseph Conrad: Sabotage (1936), in which the character was named Karl Anton Verloc, and Startime: The Secret Agent (1959). |
| 2 | He returned to England in the mid-1960s, to play the Soviet KGB Colonel Stok in Funeral in Berlin (1966) and Billion Dollar Brain (1967), opposite Michael Caine. His last film was the Blake Edwards romantic drama The Tamarind Seed in 1974. |
| 3 | In spite of a performance he did complete drunken in Munich in 1924 - he staggered more over the stage than the spotlights and the famous critic Ihering wrote about this: It was the most impertinent entrance I have ever seen" - he became an engagement in Berlin. |
| 4 | Predictably, Hollywood loved him most as the blustering Uncle Chris in I Remember Mama. In a 1944 New Yorker profile Homolka is quoted thus, "In Europe I played Othello, but in American pictures. . . . I am just the mean fellow who leers at the little heroine and dies hideously in the end." Howard Hawks, thankfully, showed us another side of Homolka when he cast him in Ball of Fire as the pipe-sucking Professor Gurkakoff, one of eight hermetic encyclopedia writers childishly lovestruck by Barbara Stanwyck's nightclub singer, Sugarpuss O'Shea. |
| 5 | In 1951 he returned to Austria to play the village judge Adam in the play: 'The Broken Jug' by Kleist during the Salzburg Festival. His partner -as wife Marthe Rull- was Therese Giehse, the performance was subsequently shown at the Vienna Burgtheater. |
| 6 | In 1935 Homolka emigrated to England and wrote his first name with "c" from now on. |
| 7 | Homolka fled in 1933 to Paris, then London where his career soon resumed on the stage and in film. Soon thereafter he was invited to the United States where he spent most of the next 14 years as a character actor, generally playing a cruel or bumbling European whose thick accent and thicker eyebrows were the key defining attributes. |
| 8 | Although he didn't possess a polished pronunciation he could assert himself in the sound film era and continue to haunt. |
| 9 | According to Homolka's own account, he made at least thirty silent films in Germany and starred in the first talking picture ever made there. |
| 10 | In 1973, he appeared in 'Border Line' an episode of The Protectors filmed in Austria. |
| 11 | He acted with Ingrid Bergman in Rage in Heaven, with Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch, with Ronald Reagan in Prisoner of War and with Katharine Hepburn in The Madwoman of Chaillot. |
| 12 | Oskar Homolka made his home in England after 1966. |
| 13 | His career in television included appearances in several episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents in 1957 and 1960. |
| 14 | In 1939, Homolka married socialite and photographer Florence Meyer (1911-1962), a daughter of The Washington Post owner, Eugene Meyer. |
| 15 | Other stage plays in which Homolka performed: The first German performance of Eugene O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, 1924. |
| 16 | His first wife was Grete Mosheim, a German actress of Jewish ancestry on her father's side. They married in Berlin on June 28, 1928, but divorced in 1937. She later married Howard Gould. His second wife, Baroness Vally Hatvany (died 1938), was a Hungarian actress. They married in December 1937, but she died four months later. |
| 17 | After the arrival of National Socialism in Germany, Homolka - although not Jewish - moved to Britain where he starred in the films Rhodes, Empire Builder, with Walter Huston, 1936; and Everything Is Thunder, with Constance Bennett, 1936. |
| 18 | In 1967 Homolka was awarded the Filmband in Gold of the Deutscher Filmpreis for outstanding contributions to German cinema. |
| 19 | After serving in the Austro-Hungarian Army during World War I, Oscar Homolka learned his trade at the academy of music and performing arts between 1915 and 1917. After that he made his debut at the Komödienhaus Vienna. Success there led to work in the much more prestigious German theatrical community in Munich where in 1924 he played Mortimer in the premiere of Brecht's play The Life of Edward II of England at the Munich Kammerspiele, and since 1925 in Berlin where he worked under Max Reinhardt. |
| 20 | He died of pneumonia in Sussex, England, on January 27, 1978, just three months after the death of his fourth wife, actress Joan Tetzel. |
| 21 | As a result of his expressive face he was predestined to play scoundrels, pimps and bad guys. |
Actor
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Invisible Man | 1976 | TV Series | Chairman Rojin |
| Kojak | 1976 | TV Series | Father Dimitrius |
| Quiller | 1975 | TV Series | Cherevenko |
| One of Our Own | 1975 | TV Movie | Dr. Helmut Von Schulthers |
| The Legendary Curse of the Hope Diamond | 1975 | TV Movie | Willem Fals |
| BBC2 Playhouse | 1974 | TV Series | Father |
| The Tamarind Seed | 1974 | Gen. Golitsyn (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| The Protectors | 1973 | TV Series | Zoltan Kolas |
| Van der Valk und das Mädchen | 1972 | TV Movie | Commissaris Sanson |
| Song of Norway | 1970 | Engstrand | |
| The Executioner | 1970 | Racovsky | |
| The Madwoman of Chaillot | 1969 | The Commissar | |
| Assignment to Kill | 1968 | Inspector Ruff | |
| The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | 1968 | TV Movie | Stryker |
| Billion Dollar Brain | 1967 | Col. Stok (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| The Happening | 1967 | Sam | |
| Funeral in Berlin | 1966 | Col. Stok (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| Joy in the Morning | 1965 | Stan Pulaski | |
| The Rogues | 1964 | TV Series | Mr. Smith |
| Hazel | 1964 | TV Series | Pozega |
| The DuPont Show of the Week | 1964 | TV Series | Tomas Medina-Colon |
| The Long Ships | 1964 | Krok | |
| Burke's Law | 1964 | TV Series | Janek Cybowski |
| Breaking Point | 1963 | TV Series | Papa Landros |
| Ben Casey | 1963 | TV Series | Papa Landros |
| ITV Play of the Week | 1963 | TV Series | Henry Brunewald |
| Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color | 1962 | TV Series | Urias Hawke |
| The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm | 1962 | The Duke (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| Boys' Night Out | 1962 | Dr. Prokosch (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| Theatre '62 | 1962 | TV Series | |
| Thriller | 1962 | TV Series | Pierre Jacquelin |
| Mr. Sardonicus | 1961 | Krull (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| Play of the Week | 1960 | TV Series | Ghoul / Mr. Casale |
| Rashomon | 1960 | TV Movie | |
| Playhouse 90 | 1958-1960 | TV Series | Josef Chinik / The Doctor / Khrushchev |
| Alfred Hitchcock Presents | 1957-1960 | TV Series | Jan Vander Klaue / Carpius / Carl Kaminsky |
| General Electric Theater | 1960 | TV Series | King |
| Art Carney Special | 1960 | TV Series | |
| The DuPont Show of the Month | 1960 | TV Series | Dr. Max Gottlieb |
| Five Fingers | 1959 | TV Series | Baska |
| Tempest | 1958 | Savelic | |
| The Key | 1958 | Capt. Van Dam (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| A Farewell to Arms | 1957 | Dr. Emerich (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| The Kaiser Aluminum Hour | 1957 | TV Series | Prof. Burnside |
| Matinee Theatre | 1957 | TV Series | Capt. Cornelius Rockney / Halvard Solness |
| Cavalcade of America | 1957 | TV Series | Jeno Reinitz |
| Climax! | 1957 | TV Series | Christy Christakos |
| War and Peace | 1956 | Field Marshal Kutuzov (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| The Seven Year Itch | 1955 | Dr. Brubaker (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| Armstrong Circle Theatre | 1955 | TV Series | |
| Producers' Showcase | 1955 | TV Series | |
| Prisoner of War | 1954 | Col. Nikita I. Biroshilov (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| The Motorola Television Hour | 1954 | TV Series | |
| Justice | 1954 | TV Series | |
| Robert Montgomery Presents | 1954 | TV Series | |
| The House of the Arrow | 1953 | Inspector Hanaud | |
| Mr. Potts Goes to Moscow | 1952 | Zekov | |
| Der schweigende Mund | 1951 | Dr.Herbert Hirth | |
| The Philco-Goodyear Television Playhouse | 1951 | TV Series | Bert |
| The White Tower | 1950 | Andreas (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| Anna Lucasta | 1949 | Joe Lucasta | |
| I Remember Mama | 1948 | Uncle Chris (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| Code of Scotland Yard | 1947 | Desius Heiss | |
| Hostages | 1943 | Lev Pressinger | |
| Mission to Moscow | 1943 | Maxim Litvinov, Foreign Minister | |
| Ball of Fire | 1941 | Prof. Gurkakoff (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| Rage in Heaven | 1941 | Dr. Rameau (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| The Invisible Woman | 1940 | Blackie (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| Comrade X | 1940 | Vasiliev (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| Seven Sinners | 1940 | Antro (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| Ebb Tide | 1937 | Capt. Jakob Therbecke | |
| Sabotage | 1936 | Her Husband (as Oscar Homolka) | |
| Everything Is Thunder | 1936 | Detective Schenck Götz | |
| Rhodes | 1936 | Ohm Paul Kruger | |
| Unsichtbare Gegner | 1933 | James Godfrey | |
| Spies at Work | 1933 | Blünzli (Agent B 18) | |
| Moral und Liebe | 1933 | Robert Keßler | |
| Les nuits de Port Said | 1932 | Winston Winkler | |
| Nachtkolonne | 1932 | André Carno | |
| In the Employ of the Secret Service | 1931 | Lanskoi, generalmajor | |
| Between Night and Dawn | 1931 | Anton, ihr Zuhälter | |
| 1914, die letzten Tage vor dem Weltbrand | 1931 | Sazanow | |
| Der Weg nach Rio | 1931 | Ricardo | |
| The Dreyfus Case | 1930 | Maj. Ferdinand Walsin-Esterhazy | |
| Hocuspocus | 1930 | Grandt | |
| Masken | 1930 | Breitkopf | |
| Revolte im Erziehungshaus | 1930 | Erzieher | |
| Die Rothausgasse | 1928 | Dr. Horner | |
| The Prince of Rogues | 1928 | Amtmann | |
| Die Leibeigenen | 1928 | Gouverneur Fürst Kurganow | |
| Prince or Clown | 1928 | Zurube | |
| Petronella - Das Geheimnis der Berge | 1927 | Fridolin Bortis | |
| Der Kampf des Donald Westhof | 1927 | Lessing | |
| Die heilige Lüge | 1927 | Jack | |
| Regine, die Tragödie einer Frau | 1927 | Robert, ihr Bruder | |
| Das Mädchen ohne Heimat | 1927 | Plempe | |
| Dirnentragödie | 1927 | Anton - Pimp | |
| Aftermath | 1927 | Der Matrose | |
| Adventures of a Ten Mark Note | 1926 | Direktor Haniel |
Self
| Title | Year | Status | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| Here's Hollywood | 1962 | TV Series | Himself |
Won Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | Honorary Award | German Film Awards | For his continued outstanding individual contributions to the german film over the years. |
Nominated Awards
| Year | Award | Ceremony | Nomination | Movie |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1957 | Golden Globe | Golden Globes, USA | Best Supporting Actor | War and Peace (1956) |
| 1949 | Oscar | Academy Awards, USA | Best Actor in a Supporting Role | I Remember Mama (1948) |