Frederick Valk

Known for

Acting

Born

June 10, 1895

Birthplace

Hamburg, Germany

Died

July 23, 1956 (aged 61)

Biography

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.

Best known work

A Matter of Life and Death

1946

Dead of Night

1945

Night Train to Munich

1940

The Colditz Story

1955

Outcast of the Islands

1951

The Magic Box

1952

Saraband for Dead Lovers

1948

Thunder Rock

1942

The Flanagan Boy

1953

Hotel Reserve

1944

Filmography

1956
Zarak
as Haji Khan
1956
Wicked as They Come
as Mr. Reisner
1955
Secret Venture
as Otto Weber
1955
I Am a Camera
as Doctor
1955
Magic Fire
as Minister von Moll
1955
The Colditz Story
as Kommandant
1955
What Price Freedom
as Commissar Krause
1953
Albert R.N.
as Camp Kommandant
1953
The Flanagan Boy
as Giuseppe Vecchi
1953
Never Let Me Go
as Kuragin
1953
Ho scelto l'amore
as il sacerdote del convento
1953
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., PresentsTV
as Vanderhof (1 episode)
1952
Top Secret
as Rakov
1952
The Magic Box
as Maurice Guttenburg
1951
Outcast of the Islands
as Hudig
1949
Dear Mr. Prohack
as Dr. Viega
1948
Saraband for Dead Lovers
as The Elector Ernest Augustus
1947
Mrs. Fitzherbert
as King George III
1946
A Matter of Life and Death
as RAF Chaplain (uncredited)
1946
Man: One Family
as Saul
1946
Frenzy
as Dr. Ivan Krasner
1945
Dead of Night
as Dr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
1944
Hotel Reserve
as Emil Schimler, alias Paul Heimberger
1942
Thunder Rock
as Dr. Kurtz
1942
The Young Mr. Pitt