Karl Held

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

História

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.

Filmes

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.
O Bunker
Hans Baur
O filme, feito para a TV, dramatiza os três últimos meses de Adolph Hitler, passados no seu bunker em Berlim. Anthony Hopkins está repulsivo como Hitler, enquanto Piper Laurie é ainda mais assustadora como a fanática esposa de Goebbels. Joseph Goebbels (Cliff Gorman) alimenta o ego do Führer, enquanto Albert Speer (Richard Jordan) pretende desafiá-lo. Um dia antes de seu suicídio, Hitler legaliza sua relação com a amante Eva Braun (Susan Blakely). O enredo do filme se estende além do suicídio, com as forças aliadas discutindo sobre quem tem direito à propriedade de Hitler.
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
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets...
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.
007: Os Diamantes São Eternos
Agent (uncredited)
Quando o governo britânico suspeita da existência de uma rede mundial de contrabando de diamantes, 007 (Sean Connery) é chamado para investigar. Ele logo descobre a extensão do problema e viaja para a América, onde o milionário proprietário de um cassino é suspeito de estar por trás de tudo. Só que ele é ninguém menos que Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Charles Gray), o arquiinimigo de James Bond, que sabe exatamente o que tem de fazer, principalmente quando as mais poderosas potências nucleares do planeta estão envolvidas.
Aquele Gato Danado
Kelly
O gato D.C. aparece em casa com um relógio de pulso no pescoço e um pedido de ajuda nele. Desconfiada, Patti, a dona do felino, fala com o FBI acreditando que o item é de Margaret, sequestrada recentemente. Ela então se junta ao agente Zeke Kelso e seu bichinho de estimação para investigar o caso. .
36 Horas
Cpl. Kenter
Neste drama psicológico de guerra, um major do Exército é capturado pelos alemães durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Os alemães tentam fazer uma lavagem cerebral nele para que acredite que a guerra acabou e que ele está seguro em um hospital dos Aliados, de modo que ele possa falar abertamente dos planos da invasão dos Aliados no Dia D.
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.