Charles Korvin

Charles Korvin

Nacimiento : 1907-11-21, Piestany, Austria-Hungary [now Piestany, Slovakia]

Muerte : 1998-06-18

Historia

Charles Korvin (born Géza Korvin Kárpáthy) was an American film, television and stage actor. He was also a professional still and motion picture photographer and master chef. The Hungarian actor moved to Paris around 1930. He studied at the Sorbonne and during his ten years living in France, he was hired by Yvon, the famous French postcard company, shooting on location all over the country. In 1937, he was hired for a CBC documentary film project about the renowned Canadian medical doctor, Norman Bethune. Entitled “Heart of Spain”, Korvin photographed and co-directed the anti-Franco film which was shot on the front lines during the Spanish Civil War. Moving to the United States in 1940, Korvin studied acting and stagecraft at the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia. As Géza Korvin, he made his Broadway stage debut in 1943, playing a Russian nobleman in the play, Dark Eyes. After signing a movie contract with Universal Pictures, he changed his stage name to Charles Korvin. He worked steadily through the 1940s, including appearing in three films with actress Merle Oberon. He was blacklisted around 1952, refused to testify before the HUAC, and his film career was halted. Turning to the newly burgeoning, and much less political, field of broadcast television, Korvin starred in early productions for Playhouse 90, Studio One, and US Steel Hour. He played The Eagle for six contiguous episodes on Disney's Zorro and played Latin dance instructor Carlos on The Honeymooners episode "Mama Loves Mambo." In 1960, he starred as Inspector Duval in the UK/US television series Interpol Calling produced by J. Arthur Rank. During these years, Korvin returned to off-Broadway theater starring as the king in Rodgers and Hammerstein's The King and I with runs at the Westbury Music Fair and the St. Louis Municipal Opera. He was back on Broadway in the mid-1960s starring as the upstairs neighbor in Neil Simon’s Tony Award winning play, “Barefoot in the Park”. In 1964, he returned to Hollywood to play the ship’s captain in Stanley Kramer’s Academy Award winning film, Ship of Fools. Remaining active in later years, he was the voice of the Red Baron for eight years on television and radio ads for Lufthansa Airlines. For more than 25 years, Korvin, with his wife Anne, were part-of-the-year residents in Klosters, Switzerland, where he enjoyed skiing, cooking and entertaining with friends and fellow part time residents Irwin and Marion Shaw, Greta Garbo, Salka Viertel, Deborah Kerr, Robert Ricci, John Fairchild and Gaetan de Rosnay among others. Korvin claimed to have been Greta Garbo's last dance partner. Julia Child, another long time friend, was interviewed in 1978 by Dick Cavett on his PBS television show. When he asked her to name her favorite “amateur” chef, Child replied, “Charles Korvin”.

Perfil

Charles Korvin

Películas

Berlín 1976
Berlín 1976
Peter Dohlberg
Con objeto de hacerse con un depósito de oro escondido durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, unos aventureros implicados en el caso deciden liberar de una prisión de máxima seguridad al criminal de guerra que conoce el paradero del tesoro.
The Man Who Had Power Over Women
The Man Who Had Power Over Women
Alfred Felix
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man's wife, he also acquires a difficult new client whose public image must be preserved at any cost.
El barco de los locos
El barco de los locos
Capt. Thiele
Antes de la Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945), un barco de pasajeros zarpa de Veracruz con rumbo al puerto alemán de Bremenhaven. Los pasajeros son personas muy distintas con diversos problemas que tal vez puedan resolver durante la travesía.
El Zorro Contra el Aguila
El Zorro Contra el Aguila
The Eagle
El cruzado enmascarado Zorro y su padre, Don Alejandro, se enfrentan al misterioso déspota El Águila en una lucha por el control de la vieja California española.
Thunderstorm
Thunderstorm
Pablo Gardia
A luminously beautiful, provocative young woman is rescued near a small fishing village on the Spanish coast. The scene is set for a drama of dangerous passion that threatens to tear apart the simple, tranquil life of the village forever.
La mansión de Sangaree
La mansión de Sangaree
Harvey Bristol
Tras la muerte del general Darby, dueño de las tierras de Sangaree, el Dr. Carlos Morales es nombrado administrador de los bienes de la familia. Aunque cuenta con el apoyo del primogénito de los Darby, no será bien recibido por el resto de la familia, que hará lo imposible por recuperar el dominio sobre Sangaree. (filmaffinit) Adaptación cinematográfica de una novela de Frank Slaughter situada en 1780. La reconstrucción de los escenarios propios de la época, el vestuario y la acción, dejan buen sabor de boca. Rodeado de bellezas protagonistas de películas de serie B, aparece el latin lover Fernando Lamas. No es broma. Originalmente, esta película fue rodada en en 3-D. Fue la primera película tridimensional en Technicolor, dirigida por el veterano de Hollywood Edward Ludwig.
Revuelta en Haiti
Revuelta en Haiti
Col. Gabriel D'autremont
Un joven abogado de Boston, Albron Hamlin, viaja a Haiti en 1802 para encontrarse con Lydia Bailey, cuyas propiedades debe poner en orden. La isla se encuentra en un estado de guerra entre el presidente Toussaing L'Overture y los franceses que intentan volver a apoderarse de la isla. Hamlin encuentra a Lydia y, a pesar del ambiente de guerra y rebelión, se enamoran al tiempo que ayudan a los haitianos contra los franceses.
Tarzán, furia salvaje
Tarzán, furia salvaje
Rokov, Russian Agent
Tarzán salva al pequeño Joey, un niño que era utilizado como cebo para cazar cocodrilos. Mientras tanto, Oliver, el primo de Tarzán, que estaba de caza en África, es asesinado por su guía Rokov, el cual convence a su socio Edwards para que se haga pasar por Oliver. Los dos hombres se presentan ante Tarzán para pedirle que les ayude a llegar a una mina de diamantes, mencionada en su diario por el padre de Tarzán, Lord Greystoke, y que, según los dos socios, es imprescindible para la seguridad de Inglaterra.
The Killer That Stalked New York
The Killer That Stalked New York
Matt Krane
Una pareja -Evelyn Keyes y Charles Korvin- que contrabandea diamantes de Cuba a Nueva York, trae también un misterioso cargamento: viruela. La mujer, insospechadamente enferma, debe sortear el seguimiento de un agente del tesoro, así que se oculta en el hotel de su hermana -Lola Albright-. Cuando cae enferma, acude a un doctor -William Bishop-, quien piensa que sufre de un resfriado. Pero cuando una niña que también estaba en la oficina, muere repentinamente de viruela, la verdadera situación surge a la luz. La alerta cunde entre las fuerzas del orden, que tratan de atrapar a la persona que puede estar diseminando la infección sobre la gran ciudad.
Berlin Express
Berlin Express
Perrot
Recién terminada la Segunda Guerra Mundial, un grupo de personas de diversas nacionalidades (un americano, un inglés, un francés, una misteriosa mujer que habla diferentes idiomas, un par de alemanes, ...) viaja de París a Berlín, vía Frankfurt. En el tren, fuertemente vigilado, también ocupa compartimento el doctor Bernhardt, un pacifista cuya misión es unificar Alemania. Un mensaje en clave accidentalmente hallado en una paloma mensajera ha puesto en alerta a militares y servicios secretos. Antes de llegar a Frankfurt, Bernhardt es asesinado, lo que supone el inicio de una complicada trama de espionaje que pondrá en peligro a todos los pasajeros, ahora unidos para desenmascarar al culpable o culpables del homicidio.
Temptation
Temptation
Mahoud Baroudi
After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man.
This Love of Ours
This Love of Ours
Dr. Michael Touzac
At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abandoned wife Karin, whom their daughter Susette thinks is dead. Can Susette cope if they now re-unite?
Enter Arsène Lupin
Enter Arsène Lupin
Arsene Lupin
A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does.
Heart of Spain
Heart of Spain
Cinematography
The first production from Frontier Films, the film production collective that was the successor to NYKino and the Workers Film and Photo League, Heart of Spain focuses on the Spanish Civil War, a conflict that became a touchstone of its era and was the most forceful opposition to the rising threat of fascism in Europe. Heart of Spain was begun by Geza Karpathi and Herbert Kline, who ultimately turned their footage over to Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz, and Ben Maddow to make the film. It is compelling both for its shrewd formal aesthetics and as a sympathetic human document of the war.
Heart of Spain
Heart of Spain
Director
The first production from Frontier Films, the film production collective that was the successor to NYKino and the Workers Film and Photo League, Heart of Spain focuses on the Spanish Civil War, a conflict that became a touchstone of its era and was the most forceful opposition to the rising threat of fascism in Europe. Heart of Spain was begun by Geza Karpathi and Herbert Kline, who ultimately turned their footage over to Paul Strand, Leo Hurwitz, and Ben Maddow to make the film. It is compelling both for its shrewd formal aesthetics and as a sympathetic human document of the war.