Karl Held

Nacimiento : 1931-09-19, Jersey City, New Jersey, USA

Historia

Carl Held, sometimes credited as Karl Held, is an American actor who has worked extensively in both American and British television. Held is best known for his role as Garth in the 1980s soap opera Falcon Crest, which he played for three seasons from 1987 to 1989. During the fourth season of Perry Mason, Held appeared as Bruce Nesbitt in the episode "The Case of the Angry Dead Man". Later that season, he appeared as the defendant David Gideon in "The Case of the Grumbling Grandfather." He appeared as Gideon in eight more episodes in the fifth season in a "legal eagle" aspiring law student role, assisting Perry in uncovering evidence to aid Mason's clients accused of murder. Other TV credits include: 77 Sunset Strip, The Outer Limits, The Big Valley, The Girl from U.N.C.L.E., Flipper, The Fugitive, Daktari, Star Trek, The Invaders, Mission: Impossible, The Lotus Eaters, Space: 1999, Return of the Saint, The Aphrodite Inheritance, The Incredible Hulk, Charlie's Angels, Taxi, St. Elsewhere, MacGyver, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, Riptide, The Rebel and L.A. Law.

Películas

Assassins: A Conversationpiece
Sound
Stephen Sondheim and librettist John Weidman discuss their stage musical Assassins, and offer advice for future productions. Sondheim, seated at a piano, focuses on the arrangement of his score, singing excerpts from the show's songs as examples. Weidman focuses on his text and the meaning of individual sequences. Scenic designer Loren Sherman, who designed the set for the 1990 Off-Broadway production of the show at Playwrights Horizons, displays his model for the set and offers advice on dealing with the scenic design challenges presented by the show. Each man appears separately and addresses the camera directly, with no interviewer present.
El bunker
Hans Baur
Narra los últimos días del dictador Adolf Hitler y de su entorno en mayo de 1945 en su búnker en Berlín, así como el clima de demencia que reinaba en el Bunker en esas últimas horas de muchos de sus habitantes. Hitler, hombre senil que pasa de la tranquilidad a una violencia extrema, no admite su derrota.
A Family Upside Down
Al
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
Madame Claude
Stanfield
‘Madame Claude’ cuenta la historia real de una parisina con un oscuro pasado. Madame Claude (Françoise Fabian) ha creado, en la actualidad, una red de chicas de compañía para la alta sociedad. Ella se encarga de enviar a sus prostitutas a cualquier parte del mundo en la que se necesiten sus prácticas sexuales para satisfacer los deseos de los hombres más poderosos del mundo. Con su empresa es capaz de manipular a los grandes hombres de negocio y políticos. Mientras tanto, David Evans (Murray Head) está chantajeando a las autoridades con fotos de los miembros de las altas esferas y las prostitutas de Madame Claude. Pero, aunque David cree que su plan será muy efectivo, los hombres con poder harán cualquier cosa por mantener guardados sus secretos.
Good Salary, Prospects, Free Coffin
After two of her roommates disappear while out for a job interview, a woman answers a want ad for the same job.
Embassy
Rylands
A KGB assassin infiltrates the American embassy in Beirut in an attempt to eliminate a Russian defector being protected by the CIA.
Diamantes para la eternidad
Agent (uncredited)
Tras pasar unas merecidas vacaciones en Francia, el agente secreto James Bond recibe una llamada del Jefe M para realizar una peligrosa misión relacionada con unos diamantes en bruto desaparecidos.
Un gato del FBI
Kelly
Unos torpes criminales secuestran por error a la criada de una pareja de millonarios, después de confundirla con la señora de la casa. Se inicia así la primera de un montón de confusiones.
36 horas
Cpl. Kenter
Segunda Guerra Mundial (1939-1945). En vísperas del desembarco de Normandía, los alemanes capturan a un oficial de los servicios de inteligencia americanos y lo someten a un lavado de cerebro: le hacen creer que la guerra ha terminado hace años para obtener información sobre los planes de los aliados.
Ready for the People
Dave Ryan
In a barroom fight over Connie Zelenko, Eddie Dickinson is badly wounded and Connie's boyfriend is killed. Witnesses claim Dickinson is the killer, but he maintains his innocence despite public prosecutor Murray Brock's advice that he plead guilty and take a life-imprisonment sentence rather than risk capital punishment. When Connie comes out of hiding, she confirms the other witnesses' stories, but Brock believes Dickinson is innocent. Dickinson sticks to his story at his trial but receives the death sentence. In the death house, Dickinson continues to maintain his innocence, but after the execution of the sentence, Brock receives a letter from Dickinson confessing to the murder.