Martin Kosleck
Date of birth: 1904-03-24
Place of birth: Barkotzen, Province of Pomerania, German Empire (now Barkocin, Pomeranian Voivodeship, Poland)
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Martin Koslek, Nikolai Yoshkin
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Martin Kosleck (born Nicolaie Yoshkin, March 24, 1904 – January 15, 1994) was a German film actor. Like many other German actors, he fled when the Nazis came to power. Inspired by his deep hatred of Adolf Hitler and the Nazis, Kosleck made a career in Hollywood playing villainous Nazis in films. While in the United States, he appeared in more than 80 films and television shows in a 46-year span. His icy demeanor and piercing stare on screen made him a popular choice to play Nazi villains. He portrayed Joseph Goebbels, Adolf Hitler's propaganda minister, five times, and also appeared as an SS trooper and a concentration camp officer.
Movie Credits
Alraune
1930-03-02
A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitu
Agent for H.A.R.M.
1966-01-05
The head of the Human Aetiological Relations Machine pits an agent against a flesh-to-fungus spore g
The Mummy's Curse
1944-12-22
After being buried in quicksand for the past 25 years, Kharis is set free to roam the rural bayous o
The Mad Doctor
1940-12-20
A reporter sleuths the mystery behind an oft-married Viennese doctor whose wives met mysterious fate
Don't Be a Sucker!
1943-07-04
Propaganda short film depicting the rise of Nazism in Germany and how political propaganda is simila
Spy for Germany
1956-12-04
The true story of a German agent sent to the USA in 1944 in order to stop the development of the ato
The Flesh Eaters
1964-03-18
An alcoholic actress, her personal assistant, and their pilot are downed on a secluded isle by bad w
All Through the Night
1942-01-10
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
The Spider
1945-12-01
An ex-cop is suspected of murder after he is found with a dead woman. The private detective is on th
Assigned to Danger
1948-05-19
A gang of bank robbers is pursued by an insurance investigator.
36 Hours
1964-11-26
Germans kidnap an American major and try to convince him that World War II is over, so that they can
She-Wolf of London
1946-05-17
A young heiress finds evidence suggesting that at night she acts under the influence of a family cur
Nazi Agent
1942-03-01
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a
The Man with Bogart's Face
1980-10-03
In this send-up of the Humphrey Bogart detective films of the 1940s, a man idolizes Bogart so much t
Fashions of 1934
1934-02-14
When the Manhattan investment firm of Sherwood Nash goes broke, he joins forces with his partner Sna
Nick Carter, Master Detective
1939-12-13
Detective Nick Carter is brought in to foil spies at the Radex Airplane Factory, where a new fighter
Just Before Dawn
1946-03-07
In the 7th film of the "Crime Doctor" series based on the radio program, Dr. Robert Ordway is summon
Pursuit to Algiers
1945-10-26
After the King of Rovenia has been assassinated, Holmes and Watson are engaged to escort his son to
Something Wild
1961-12-23
A young rape victim tries desperately to pick up the pieces of her life, only to find herself at the
House of Horrors
1946-03-29
An unsuccessful sculptor saves a madman named "The Creeper" from drowning. Seeing an opportunity for
Hitler
1962-03-21
Richard Basehart stars as one of the most influential and one of the most reviled men in history in
Espionage Agent
1939-09-30
When Barry Corvall discovers that his new bride is a possible enemy agent, he resigns from the diplo
Gangs of the Waterfront
1945-07-03
Gang Leader Dutch Malone goes on a hunting trip and is in a car wreck and is confined to the hospita
Half Past Midnight
1948-03-01
A detective encounters a woman in a nightclub. He finds that she is being blackmailed by a dancer wh
Devil Pays Off
1941-11-10
A former Navy man attempts to redeem his honor by exposing a shipping tycoon's dealings with the ene
Crime of the Century
1946-02-28
Ex-convict Hank Rogers is searching for his brother Jim, a newspaperman, and becomes involved with a
The Great Alaskan Mystery
1944-04-25
The obsessive scientist Dr. Miller is working on a matter-transmitter invention called the Paratron;
Foreign Correspondent
1940-08-16
American crime reporter John Jones is reassigned to Europe as a foreign correspondent to cover the i
The Hitler Gang
1944-04-26
The Hitler Gang adopts the style of a gangster film as it charts Adolf Hitler’s rise from small-time
Manila Calling
1942-10-16
During WWII, a group of brave Americans spy on the Japanese after their invasion of the Philippines
The North Star
1943-11-04
A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and
The Wife of Monte Cristo
1946-04-22
In this sequel to the original story, Monte Cristo count Edmund Dantes (Martin Kosleck) returns to P
Berlin Correspondent
1942-08-17
Bill Roberts is an American radio commentator station in Berlin in the months before Pearl Harbor.
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1939-05-06
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
Nurse Edith Cavell
1939-08-31
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son o
Secrets of Scotland Yard
1944-07-26
Secrets of Scotland Yard is Republic's spin on a plotline first elucidated in the old E. Phillips Op
Napoleon at St. Helena
1929-11-07
Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film
Bomber's Moon
1943-08-05
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set
Fly By Night
1942-01-19
Young intern Jeff Burton, impulsively offers a lift to an odd-looking gentlemen. It soon turns out t
Calling Philo Vance
1940-02-03
Philo is in Vienna working for the US Government to see if Archer Coe is selling aircraft designs to
Smuggler's Cove
1948-10-10
Slip and Sach are working as cleaners in a high rise building. They enter an office to clean it when
Chetniks!
1943-01-11
Subtitled The Fighting Guerillas, Chetniks tells the story of Serbian guerilla fighter General Drago
Underground
1941-06-28
A World War II Hollywood propaganda film detailing the dark underside of Nazism and the Third Reich
The Frozen Ghost
1945-06-01
When a man dies of a heart attack, a stage and radio mentalist believes he has willed him to die bec
Morituri
1965-08-24
A German living in India during World War II is blackmailed by the English to impersonate an SS offi
The Singing City
1930-10-27
A tourist guide in Naples is taken on by a Viennese woman impressed by his singing, and who regards
Watchtower Over Tomorrow
1945-03-29
Short documentary film about the Dumbarton Oaks plan and the proposed formation of the United Nation
International Lady
1941-10-16
Tim Hanley, an American agent, posing as a lawyer with the United States Embassy in London, and Reg
Wake Me When the War Is Over
1969-10-14
During the latter days of WWII an American Lieutenant accidentally falls out of an airplane into Ger
Strange Holiday
1945-10-19
An American businessman returns from a hunting trip to find fascists have overrun the country in thi
A Day at the White House
1972-01-01
he US President launches an all-out “war” on obscenity. Working with the director of the investigati