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Frederick Valk

Acting Born Jun 10, 1895 Hamburg, Germany 24 credits

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.

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Known for

Film

A Matter of Life and Death

as RAF Chaplain (uncredited)
Film

Dead of Night

as Dr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")

Full filmography

  • A Matter of Life and Death (1946) as RAF Chaplain (uncredited)
  • The Colditz Story (1955) as Kommandant
  • Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Presents (1953) as Vanderhof
  • Dead of Night (1945) as Dr. Van Straaten (Segment "Linking Story" & "The Ventriloquist's Dummy")
  • Zarak (1956) as Haji Khan
  • Night Train to Munich (1940) as Gestapo Officer
  • The Magic Box (1952) as Maurice Guttenburg
  • Hotel Reserve (1944) as Emil Schimler, alias Paul Heimberger
  • Top Secret (1952) as Rakov
  • Saraband for Dead Lovers (1948) as The Elector Ernest Augustus
  • Albert R.N. (1953) as Camp Kommandant
  • Magic Fire (1955) as Minister von Moll
  • Outcast of the Islands (1951) as Hudig
  • What Price Freedom (1955) as Commissar Krause
  • Thunder Rock (1942) as Dr. Kurtz
  • The Young Mr. Pitt (1942)
  • Never Let Me Go (1953) as Kuragin
  • I Am a Camera (1955) as Doctor
  • Dangerous Moonlight (1941) as Polish Bomber Commander
  • Dear Mr. Prohack (1949) as Dr. Viega
  • The Flanagan Boy (1953) as Giuseppe Vecchi
  • The Patient Vanishes (1941) as Dr. Moger
  • Traitor Spy (1939) as German Ambassador
  • Gasbags (1941) as Sturmfuehrer