--- name: "Oskar Homolka" canonical: "https://film.one/person/oskar-homolka" fi1m_id: "oskar-homolka" imdb_id: "nm0393028" tmdb_id: 29661 wikidata_id: "Q79044" roles: ["Actor"] born: "11 August 1898" died: "27 January 1978" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-25T02:31:55.838930+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Oskar Homolka ## Identity Oskar Homolka - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/oskar-homolka - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** oskar-homolka - **IMDb ID:** nm0393028 - **TMDB ID:** 29661 - **Wikidata ID:** Q79044 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Homolka, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79044, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393028/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29661 Actor. Born 11 August 1898 in Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]. Died 27 January 1978. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 11 August 1898, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria] - **Died:** 27 January 1978 - **Also known as:** Oscar Homolka - **Academy Awards:** 1 Oscar nomination - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oscar_Homolka, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q79044, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0393028/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/29661 ## Streaming the US now - **HBO Max:** [*Sabotage*](https://film.one/film/sabotage.md) (77) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Oscar Homolka was an Austrian actor who appeared in films and on stage in Germany, Britain and the United States. Born in Vienna in 1898, he trained at the Academy of Music and Performing Arts there and began his career on the Austrian stage before working with Max Reinhardt in Berlin. After emigrating in the 1930s, Homolka made his English-language film debut in *Rhodes of Africa* (1936) and appeared as Karl Verloc in Alfred Hitchcock's *Sabotage* (1936). He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role in *I Remember Mama* (1948). Among his other notable films were *Ball of Fire* (1941), *The Seven Year Itch* (1955) and *War and Peace* (1956). He died in England in 1978. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, britannica.com, filmportal.de.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Sabotage* (1936), Fi1m 77, as Karl Verloc - Her Husband — [page](https://film.one/film/sabotage.md) ## Complete filmography (83) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Berlin: Part 1* (2016), as Verlac (archive footage) - *One of Our Own* (1975), as Dr. Helmut Von Schulthers - *Van der Valk: Gun Before Butter* (1974), as Hoofdcommissaris Samson - *The Cafeteria* (1974), as Father - *The Tamarind Seed* (1974), as General Golitsyn - *Playhouse* (1974), series, as Father - *Kojak* (1973), series, as Father Dimitrius — Fi1m 80, [page](https://film.one/tv/kojak.md) - *The Protectors* (1972), series, as Zoltan Kolas - *Song of Norway* (1970), as Engstrand - *The Executioner* (1970), as Racovsky - *The Madwoman of Chaillot* (1969), as The Commissar - *Assignment to Kill* (1968), as Inspector Ruff - *The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde* (1968), as Stryker - *Billion Dollar Brain* (1967), as General Stok - *The Happening* (1967), as Sam - *Funeral in Berlin* (1966), as Colonel Stok - *Joy in the Morning* (1965), as Stan Pulaski - *The Long Ships* (1964), as Krok - *Burke's Law* (1963), series, as Janek Cybowski - *Breaking Point* (1963), series, Actor - *Mooncussers* (1962), as Urias Hawke - *The Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm* (1962), as The Duke ('The Dream') - *Boys' Night Out* (1962), as Dr. Prokosch - *Mr. Sardonicus* (1961), as Krull - *Ben Casey* (1961), series, Actor - *Play of the Week: Rashomon* (1960), as Ghoul - *Thriller* (1960), series, as Pierre Jacquelin - *In the Presence of Mine Enemies* (1960), as Josef Chinik - *Tempest* (1958), as Savelic - *Heart of Darkness* (1958), as The Doctor - *The Plot to Kill Stalin* (1958), as Khrushchev - *The Key* (1958), as Van Dam - *A Farewell to Arms* (1957), as Dr. Emerich - *War and Peace* (1956), as Field Marshal Kutuzov - *Matinee Theater* (1955), series, Actor - *Alfred Hitchcock Presents* (1955), series, as Carl Kaminsky, Carpius, Jan Vander Klaue / Mr A J Keyser - *The Seven Year Itch* (1955), as Dr. Brubaker - *Climax!* (1954), series, as Christy Christakos - *Prisoner of War* (1954), as Col. Nikita I. Biroshilov - *The House of the Arrow* (1953), as Inspector Hanaud - *General Electric Theater* (1953), series, as King - *Top Secret* (1952), as Zekov - *Cavalcade of America* (1952), series, as Jeno Reinitz - *Der schweigende Mund* (1951), as Dr.Herbert Hirth - *The White Tower* (1950), as Andreas (as Oscar Homolka) - *Robert Montgomery Presents* (1950), series, Actor - *Anna Lucasta* (1949), as Joe Lucasta - *The Philco Television Playhouse* (1948), series, as Bert - *I Remember Mama* (1948), as Uncle Chris - *The Shop at Sly Corner* (1947), as Desius Heiss - *Hostages* (1943), as Lev Pressinger - *Mission to Moscow* (1943), as Maxim Litvinov - *Ball of Fire* (1941), as Prof. Gurkakoff - *Rage in Heaven* (1941), as Dr. Rameau - *The Invisible Woman* (1940), as Blackie - *Comrade X* (1940), as Commissar Vasiliev - *Seven Sinners* (1940), as Antro - *Ebb Tide* (1937), as Capt. Jakob Therbecke - *Sabotage* (1936), as Karl Verloc - Her Husband — Fi1m 77, [page](https://film.one/film/sabotage.md) - *Everything Is Thunder* (1936), as Detective Schenck Gotz - *Rhodes of Africa* (1936), as Ohm Paul Kruger - *Invisible Opponent* (1933), as James Godfrey - *Moral und Liebe* (1933), as Robert Keßler - *Nights in Port Said* (1932), Actor - *Nachtkolonne* (1932), as André Carno - *In the Employ of the Secret Service* (1931), as Lanskoi - *Between Night and Dawn* (1931), as Anton - *1914: The Last Days Before the War* (1931), as Sergei Dmitrijewitsch Sasonow - *Road to Rio* (1931), as Ricardo Gabiano - *Dreyfus* (1930), as Major Ferdinand Walsin-Esterházy - *Hokuspokus* (1930), as Gerichtspräsident Grandt - *Revolte im Erziehungshaus* (1930), as Erzieher - *Schinderhannes* (1928), as Amtmann - *Die Leibeigenen* (1928), Actor - *Prince or Clown* (1928), as Zurube - *The Green Alley* (1928), as Dr. Horner - *Die heilige Lüge* (1927), as Jack - *Petronella - Das Geheimnis der Berge* (1927), as Fridolin Bortis - *The Trial of Donald Westhof* (1927), Actor - *Das Mädchen ohne Heimat* (1927), Actor - *Tragedy of the Street* (1927), as Anton - Pimp - *Brennende Grenze* (1927), as Der Matrose - *Adventures of a Ten Mark Note* (1926), as Director Haniel ## Gallery - ![Oskar Homolka](https://film.one/media/person/3857029/gallery-0a31abfd91d9.jpg) Oskar Homolka — Anonymous photographer, not identified anywhere, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/WP_Oskar_Homolka.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Oskar Homolka (aka Oscar Homolka) & Danielle De Metz in Alfred Hitchcock Presents - publicity still (original image cropped : see source) (1960)](https://film.one/media/person/3857029/gallery-1423ea98627c.jpg) Oskar Homolka (aka Oscar Homolka) & Danielle De Metz in Alfred Hitchcock Presents - publicity still (original image cropped : see source) (1960) — unknown (Revue Studios), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/09/Oskar_Homolka-Danielle_De_Metz_in_Alfred_Hitchcock_Presents.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Actor Oskar Homolka in 1937's Ebb Tide](https://film.one/media/person/3857029/gallery-aef8ada3bf7b.jpg) Actor Oskar Homolka in 1937's Ebb Tide — Paramount Pictures and/or Elizabeth Arden, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/92/Oskar_Homolka_Screenland.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Oskar Homolka](https://film.one/media/person/3857029/gallery-32ebca53331a.jpg) Oskar Homolka — Image via TMDB - ![Oskar Homolka](https://film.one/media/person/3857029/gallery-29979437954a.jpg) Oskar Homolka — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Academy Awards — 0 won, 1 nominated - 1949: Best Supporting Actor (nominated), for *I Remember Mama* *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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