Karl Spiehs

Karl Spiehs

Birth : 1931-02-20, Ternitz, Lower Austria, Austria

Death : 2022-01-27

History

Karl Spiehs was an Austrian movie producer. With his movie production company LISA Film, he became one of the most prolific movie producers of the German-speaking world. The output of his company featured shallow comedies, raunchy sex movies, cheesy music films, but also exploitation films. Many of these films were slated by critics but enjoyed considerable commercial success. From the early 1990s onwards, he increasingly shifted the focus of his company from cinematic movies to made-for-tv productions.

Profile

Karl Spiehs

Movies

Otto Retzer - Der Film meines Lebens
Self
Jedermann liebt Karli Spiehs – Einer Legende auf der Spur
Himself
Österreich: Oben und Unten
Executive Producer
Documentary about Austrian nature and culture, comprised almost exclusively of aerial footage, narrated by Persian born Austrian comedian Michael Niavarani.
Oma wider Willen
Producer
A new collaboration between director Sigi Rothemund (Siggi Götz) and writer Erich Tomek.
Die Liebe eines Priesters
Producer
Franz Josef Gottlieb's last movie.
The Return of the Dancing Master
Producer
Stefan Lindman is a police officer in Boros, Sweden. When his mentor and retired former partner Herbert Molin is brutally murdered in the remote town of Sveg, Lindman travels north to investigate. The more Lindman digs into the mysterious killing, the less he is sure to have known the man he feels so much indebted to...
August der Glückliche
Producer
Herzensfeinde
Producer
The popular TV star and director Peter Weck staged the turbulent comedy "Herzensfeinde" by Uli Brée, in which romance is not neglected either. Weck himself shines as a lovable and hypochondriac pedant; his vacation partner and "Herzensfeinde" is congenially embodied by Friedrich von Thun. The attractive ladies of the heart of the two vacationers are played by Susanne Uhlen and Michèle Marian.
Fröhliche Chaoten
Producer
The Black Curse
Producer
A reporter becomes embroiled in a deadly game when researching a series of murders on a South American island.
Liebling, ich muß auf Geschäftsreise
Producer
Desperate Obsession
Producer
Medical drama / psycho-thriller about a female doctor who impregnates her best friend with her boyfriend's sperm.
Unser Opa ist der Beste
Producer
A comedy directed by Helmut Lohner
Mein Freund, der Lipizzaner
Producer
Das Paradies am Ende der Berge
Producer
A drama directed by Otto W. Retzer.
Harry and Harriet
Producer
A bodyswitch comedy directed by Cyril Frankel.
Real Men Don't Eat Gummi Bears
Producer
In this wacky comedy, teen-aged Tony (Bentley C. Mitchum) has never known who is father is. Together with his best buddies Peter and Susan, he tracks down the clues he has as well as he can.
Silence Like Glass
Executive Producer
True story of two diametrically opposed young women dealing with terminal illness.
Midnight Cop
Producer
Police Commissioner Alex Glass has been twisted into a sarcastic cynic by the hard luck story that is his life and by his daily contact with the criminals of Berlin's underground. His new assistant, Shirly Mai, is an attractive and conscientious woman who embodies a quality of virtue that her boss gave up a long time ago. They have both been assigned to solve a series of gruesome murders that have been taking place in Berlin's drug and prostitution ganglands. The prime suspect is George Miskowski, a pusher who supplies Berlin's brothels and hookers with cocaine and heroin.
Three Crazy Jerks II
Producer
In 2043, Frank and Xaver have only one big problem with their jobs at a patent office, their boss Dr. Kneitz who's mission it is to make their life miserable. But then an unique opportunity presents itself when an inventor shows up to patent a time machine and they come up with a plan to travel back in time to stop the conceiving of their boss. Accidently Ronny, a night watchman, happens to be in the room with them when they use the time machine and so, in part unwillingly, the 3 of them travel to the year 1988 in Gran Canaria and they only have a couple of days to stop every interaction with potential fathers for the mother to be.
Starke Zeiten
Producer
The film consists of several small episodes that take place in and around Munich.
Lethal Obsession
Producer
Three Crazy Jerks
Producer
Ricky, Walter and Edmund, 3 not very successful and chaotic Daydreamer, meet after all of them get fired from the set of the new Winnetou production. On their way to the next town they meet Rosi and all 3 of them fall immediately in love with her. After an intimate party with just the four of them Rosi finds out that she's pregnant and every one of them could be the father. Till they can be sure who the father is the three of them try to help Rosa out in any way they can and to get the necessary money for the baby, the three of them will try anything, regardless how chaotic the outcome will be.
Die Schokoladenschnüffler
Producer
A crime comedy directed by Jirí Menzel, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
Die Schokoladenschnüffler
Scheich
A crime comedy directed by Jirí Menzel, based on a story by Edgar Wallace.
The Beginner
Producer
Movie fan Mike has invented a machine with which he is able to take part in every movie which is currently running on his video tape recorder. But he and his friend Tommy are watched while trying out this new device and soon two electronic companies are on their trail to discover the secret of this invention.
Coconuts
Producer
Grein, a truck driver, works for Sienmann, an undesirable man, dedicated to fraud.
Mama Mia - Nur keine Panik
Producer
Because her husband, crime novel author Bert, prefers to spend the evenings with milieu and girl studies in the pubs, Conny files for divorce and moves with the two children from Berlin to Munich. There, she mistakes the new teacher of her daughter with the renovating carpenter, which is quite alright with the teacher as this gives him plenty of opportunity to enjoy Conny’s company. Meanwhile, however, Bert as well has started to understand how good it is to have a cosy home. He comes to Munich in order to win Conny back.
Zwei Nasen tanken Super
Gangsterboss
Tommy and Mike, again without a job and without money, are looking for a public toilet at a motor show.
Zwei Nasen tanken Super
Producer
Tommy and Mike, again without a job and without money, are looking for a public toilet at a motor show.
Die Supernasen
Producer
Tommy loses his job as a make-up artist at Bayerischer Rundfunk after fogging an announcer with hairspray and then insulting her; Mike is dumped by his girlfriend because, on the one hand, he only cares about his music and, on the other hand, he is financially stranded. So they both need money and decide to become detectives. On behalf of a rich industrialist, they are to shadow his wife and take photos of her cheating. So Mike and Tommy travel to Bad Spänzer, where the lady is staying. But she is as faithful as gold, so Mike, disguised as a Prussian, makes advances to her so that Tommy can take the required photos. But Tommy soon has to slip into a costume, too: Since Tommy looks deceptively similar to an Arab sheik, he is hired by the sheik's secret service to double him. What Tommy doesn't know: assassins want to kill the sheikh at all costs.
Hunting for Girls at Kilimanjaro‎
Producer
Several German tourists are staying in the "Leisure Lodge" holiday hotel in Africa.
Crazy Jungle Adventure
Producer
A sleazy airline owner forces boozy former pilot Butch Donovan (James Mitchum) to climb into the cockpit by threatening to harm his son in this outlandish German comedy. Unbeknownst to Butch, the plane has been rigged to crash as part of an insurance scam. After miraculously surviving a harrowing landing on a remote jungle island, Butch and the other passengers find a whole new set of dangers awaits, including wild beasties and hired hit men.
Banana Joe
Producer
Bud Spencer plays Banana Joe, a brawny yet friendly man who lives in a small rainforest village called Amantido with a huge number of his own children and regularly delivers bananas to a South American river port (hence his name). One day, the henchmen of a local gangster boss named Torsillo come ashore in Amantido to initiate the construction a banana processing plant. Of course, Joe (in typical direct-approach manner) evicts the goons, who promptly return to their boss. Torsillo finds out that Joe is trading bananas without a license and decides to exploit it. Upon his next delivery, Joe is apprehended by the police and given the choice of either acquiring a legal license or getting his boat taken away and himself arrested for illegal shipment. Joe travels to the nearest city, which to him is a new world, as he grew up in the rainforest.
Piratensender Powerplay
Producer
Tommy and Mike operate a famous pirate radio station, Germany's most listened-to radio station. The police and the operators of the Bavarian Broadcast Company try to stop their illegal broadcast.
Strike Back
Producer
Dave knows what it is to suffer. Especially when he takes the rap for a gang of motorbike thieves and ends up in jail. All for the love of Corinna, his beautiful girlfriend. Refused parole and nearly insane with frustration he makes a violent escape to be with her and strike back.
Devil Hunter
Co-Producer
The lovely Laura, on a modelling job in South Africa, is kidnapped by a gang who carry her off into the jungle from where they demand a huge ransom. Two men set off in a helicopter to rescue her, little knowing what horrors Laura is enduring in the meantime in the savage clutches of a primitive and bloodthristy world. Laura's rescuers not only have to face the cruel violence of her captors - but also the horrifying lust for blood of a primitive and cruel god.
Keiner hat das Pferd geküsst
Producer
A comedy directed by Martin Müller.
Wild and Beautiful on Ibiza
Producer
Michael and Suzie are an engaged couple taking their honeymoon off the coast of Spain. Their reservations are lost and Michael loses their luggage and money to a scam artist promising to get them a room. Suzie berates him and Michael, disenchanted with his nagging wife-to-be, gives in to the temptations that are all around them. He falls in with a free-wheeling motorcycle gang. Eventually his lover leaves him (Hemingway-style) for a bullfighter, and he and Suzie, having found their wild and independent spirit on the island, come back together.
Three Swedes on the Reeperbahn
Producer
A comedy directed by Walter Boos.
Contamination
Executive Producer
A former astronaut helps a government agent and a police detective track the source of mysterious alien pod spores, filled with lethal flesh-dissolving acid, to a South American coffee plantation controlled by alien pod clones.
The Shark Hunter
Line Producer
A crusty recluse on a Caribbean island who is dedicated to destroying sharks gets involved in a hunt for buried treasure.
Dracula Blows His Cool
Producer
An ancestor of the famous vampire gets a job as a photographer shooting beautiful fashion models at the family estate.
Cola, Candy, Chocolate
Producer
After a nasty argument with her boyfriend Carl, young Gaby spontaneously accepts her girlfriend invitation to join her on a vacation to Manila. Her plans to forget about Carl succeed very rapidly as she meets Dr. Andreas Witzig, a young scholar who plans to marry his fiancee on the island. During the following days, Gaby tries her best to convince the man of her dreams to change his mind.
She's 19 and Ready
Producer
A young woman, just turning 19, is ready for anything, including fullfilling her dreams and fantasies. But two young men, Klaus and Stephen, are after her with their raging hormones to lead the way. The young lady learns to grow up fast, though, when strange occurences and new people enter her life, including more and more men.
Summer Night Fever
Producer
Two buddies head off for a summer holiday, but one of them has to take his sister along. She cramps their style when it comes to picking up chicks. However, they manage to have some fun.
Joy of Flying
Producer
The young wife Silvia is neglected by her husband Kurt. She dreams during the flight to a psychoanalyst Congress similarly Jong's heroine Isadora while reading a novel called emancipatory joy of flying in a world of its own. Then she has an affair with the businessman Jörg. It recognizes that the total of all sexual acting out day and night dreams anyone yet alone makes to a free people.
Vanessa
Producer
Olivia Pascal stars as Vanessa who was raised in a convent after the death of her parents. Due to an inheritance she travels to Hong Kong to find out the inheritance is a chain of bordellos. She soon has trouble coping with her inheritance as she is thrust into her new world of carnal delights. —Ørnås
Everyone Dies Alone
Producer
When they start losing family members and neighbors due to WWII and the Nazi government's policies, a quiet married couple becomes disillusioned and begins spreading leaflets against the government - a crime punishable by death.
Julia
Executive Producer
A young woman discovers that there's more to do than ski when in the Swiss Alps.
Reigen
Producer
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
If Every Day Was Sunday
Producer
The owner of a travel agencies decides to took a holiday with his family. He combines business with pleasure and undertakes a tour of inspection of some of his enterprises. Incognito he arrives with his family at the Castle Hotel on the Wörthersee. But the hotel manager has been warned of the impending visit and means to give the important guest the red carpet treatment. Unfortunately he does not know him personally and so takes the wrong man for the incognito inspector. Neither of the two men enjoy the mix-up and the poor hotel director has to live through some uncomfortable hours before he manages to pour oil on the troubled water.
Hell Hounds of Alaska
Producer
A fur-trapper battles the elements and robbers when a gold shipment is ambushed - leaving a boy in urgent need of medical attention.
Immer Ärger mit Hochwürden
Producer
A new highway, a new chairlift, the election of the new mayor and again a lot of alcohol.
Cry of the Black Wolves
Producer
Adventure movie based on Jack London's novel "Son of the Wolf".
Bloody Friday
Producer
Womanizing thug Klett is sprung from the courthouse by two accomplices, then sets about planning the big heist of a local bank, equipped with a cache of high-powered weapons he's acquired from an American army outpost. Together with his faithful protégé, who reluctantly on-boards his young girlfriend and her AWOL brother, the quartet bumble their way through the supposedly full-proof plan that aims to deliver them a cool million in cash and a new life in Australia. Predictably, things deteriorate quickly at every turn.
Kinderarzt Dr. Fröhlich
Producer
A young woman pharmacist, Eva, is very friendly with a children's doctor, Dr. Fröhlich. Eva's small nephew Peter lives with her and she is often thought to be his mother. A number of amusing and more serious misunderstandings arise from this situation...
Tante Trude aus Buxtehude
Producer
Musik, Musik - da wackelt die Penne
Producer
Wenn du bei mir bist
Man at Swimming Pool
Wenn du bei mir bist
Producer
When the Mad Aunts Arrive
Producer
When the Mad Aunts Arrive
Polizist
Hilfe, ich liebe Zwillinge!
Producer
Unser Doktor ist der Beste
Polizist
Always Trouble with the Teachers
Producer
Sixty Nine Games of Love
Man on Street
Sixty Nine Games of Love
Sixty Nine Games of Love
Producer
Paradies der flotten Sünder
Producer
Ignaz Hirnbeißer has won the lottery. Now he has the money to travel to where the smartest playboys and the hottest girls can be found. However, he is told adventurous stories about this place at the travel agency.
Heubodengeflüster
Producer
Heißes Pflaster Köln
Producer
Exploitation movie about a war between pimps in Cologne, Germany, in the Sixties.
Inn of the Gruesome Dolls
Producer
Betty is in jail after a failed raid on a jewelry store while her accomplice Bob escaped. But by chance she finds Bob's hiding place and towers with four other girls.
Enter Inspector Maigret
Producer
After the theft of a priceless Van Gogh from a Parisian museum, Maigret follows his chief suspect to Lausanne where the suspect is found murdered.
How to Seduce a Playboy?
Producer
A young man is chosen by a magazine company to be a modeled into a public heart-throb while being dogged by a persistant reporter out to expose the fraud the company is putting out.
Target for Killing
Producer
A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.
Hot Nights in Frankfurt
Producer
After the brutal murder of the prostitute Vera Paterny, Inspector Reinisch hardly makes any progress with the investigation. Vera's colleague Sonja reports on wild sex parties of the murdered and mentions names, prominent names.
Where Are You Taking That Woman
Producer
A lady killer tracked by the police, takes refuge at a psychiatrist's home, and the doctor tells him three stories, to convince him that crime does not pay
Poppies Are Also Flowers
Producer
In this anti-drug film narrated by Grace Kelly, a group of narcotics agents working for the United Nations inject a radioactive compound into a seized shipment of opium at the Afghanistan–Iran border, in the hopes that it will lead them to the main heroin distributor in Europe.
The Fountain of Love
Producer
In this comedy, set in an Austrian mountain village, the town leaders conspire to attract tourists by touting a mythical "fountain of love" that runs nearby the village. When the minister of tourism discovers this, she immediately sends her agents to check out the veracity of the potentially scandalous water. After the village mayor declares a 3-day ban on sexual activity, he then plugs up the fountain. When the agents come, they find nothing. One of the agents wants to have his boss come and check it out personally, but changes his mind after he drinks some of the water. It really is an aphrodisiac! Soon tourists are arriving by the hundreds to sample the mysterious water. Unfortunately, the minister finds out and claims the water for the state.
Jetzt dreht die Welt sich nur um dich
Producer
I Learned It from Father
Producer
The Last Ride to Santa Cruz
Producer
A former sheriff begins to persecute the gang led by Pedro Ortiz, after his wife is taken away.
Unsere tollen Tanten in der Südsee
Producer
The five guys of the band "Sunny Boys" go to Polynesia, where they are forced by external circumstances to throw themselves back into women clothes.
Sing, aber spiel nicht mit mir
Producer
Unsere tollen Nichten
Producer
Out of necessity, Gunther Philipp and his male colleagues put on women's clothes again and cause a commotion in the noble ski resort of Davos as the Jolly Sisters. Their girlfriends don't take kindly to this and counterattack in men's costumes.
Das haben die Mädchen gern
Executive Producer
Drei Liebesbriefe aus Tirol
Executive Producer