Frederick Valk
Date of birth: 1895-06-10
Place of birth: Hamburg, Germany
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
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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Outcast of the Islands
1951-11-15
After financial improprieties are discovered at the Eastern trading company where he works, Peter Wi
The Flanagan Boy
1953-04-10
Johnny Flanagan did not have the privileges of a good education or wealthy background but the street
The Patient Vanishes
1941-07-21
Action and excitement beckon as popular sleuth Mick Cardby goes on the trail of a missing girl, and
Dead of Night
1945-09-09
While seeking some architectural work at a country farmhouse, Walter Craig soon finds himself once a
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1948-10-04
Sophie Dorothea is a young woman forced into a loveless marriage with Prince George Louis of Hanover
Dangerous Moonlight
1941-06-26
Stefan Radetzky, a Polish pilot and famous concert pianist, is hospitalised in England from injuries
Wicked as They Come
1956-05-22
A ruthless woman takes advantage of gullible men to climb up the social ladder.
Secret Venture
1955-11-10
An American is visiting Britain and finds himself in possession of a briefcase full of secret docume
Magic Fire
1955-06-30
Director William Dieterle's 1956 film biography of classical composer Richard Wagner stars Carlos Th
Dear Mr. Prohack
1949-09-07
A modern-day retelling of Arnold Bennett's novel, in which a Treasury official with a reputation for
Frenzy
1946-02-11
A spooky seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.
A Matter of Life and Death
1946-12-15
A British wartime aviator who cheats death must argue for his life before a celestial court, hoping
Top Secret
1952-11-10
A British Sanitary Engineer, goes on holiday with a set of plans for a new secret weapon which he ha
Night Train to Munich
1940-08-31
Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, invent
Neutral Port
1940-12-06
A British merchant ship is torpedoed by a German U-Boat and takes shelter in a neutral port. The Cap
Gasbags
1941-02-01
It's war time London and the Crazy Gang (Flanagan & Allen, Nervo & Knox, Naughton & Gold
Hotel Reserve
1944-06-01
A hunt for a spy, in a hotel in the South of France just before World War Two.
What Price Freedom
1955-01-01
A young American businessman visits Communist Berlin and meets a young German woman. When the Commun
Traitor Spy
1939-12-01
A British man is hunted by British and German spies when he tries to sell blueprints.
Never Let Me Go
1953-03-18
An American reporter falls in love with a Russian ballet dancer.
Thunder Rock
1942-12-04
David Charleston, once a world renowned journalist, now lives alone maintaining the Thunder Rock lig
Ho scelto l'amore
1953-03-03
A satire of the Cold War, Italian style. Soviet flunkey Boris Popovitc is sent on a goodwill mission
The Colditz Story
1955-01-25
Allied prisoners of various nationalities pool their resources to plan numerous escapes from an "esc
Albert R.N.
1953-11-23
The British inmates of a POW camp think they have an informer among them after several escape attemp
I Am a Camera
1955-07-21
Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris, an aspiring novelist from England, meets fla
The Magic Box
1952-01-01
Now old, ill, poor, and largely forgotten, William Freise-Greene was once very different. As young a
Man: One Family
1946-07-25
An exposure of the fallacy of race myths; Nazi and Japanese theories about pure blood and master rac
Mrs. Fitzherbert
1947-12-03
The tangled affairs of George, Prince of Wales, leading to his illegal marriage to commoner Mrs. Fit
The Young Mr. Pitt
1942-09-21
This biopic tells the story of the life of Pitt The Younger, who became Prime Minister of Great Brit
Zarak Khan
1956-12-01
A notorious bandit develops a grudging respect for the English military man assigned to capture him.