Known for Acting
Karin Dor (born February 22, 1938, Wiesbaden, Germany) was a German actress who became popular in the 1960s playing heroines in Edgar Wallace and Karl May movies. She starred in the James Bond movie You Only Live Twice and the Alfred Hitchcock movie Topaz. Dor was born as Kätherose Derr. She was married to George Robotham, a U.S. stunt-director, from 1988 until his death in 2007. The couple lived in Los Angeles and Munich. Her previous marriage was to Harald Reinl (1954–68); she had a child by that marriage. In 2008 she was back on stage again in Munich in Man lebt nur dreimal ("You Only Live Thrice"). She died in Munich on 6 November 2017. Description above from the Wikipedia article Karin Dor, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Born
February 22, 1938
Died
November 6, 2017 (age 79)
Birthplace
Wiesbaden, Germany
Filmography
71 films, 22 shows


The Misplaced World
2015 · 1h 41m
country: Germany
By chance Paul Kromberger discovers on the internet a photograph of the US opera diva Caterina Fabiani who is the spitting image of Evelyn, his dead wife. His unease and growing sense of alarm are transferred to his daughter, Sophie. Filled with curiosity, she leaves Germany and journeys across the Atlantic to make contact with this stranger.


German Grusel
2012 · 58m
country: Germany
Documentary examines the extraordinary success of the Edgar Wallace series in Germany: the British writer who provided the inspiration for the films was actually out of fashion worldwide in the 1950s - too old-fashioned, too dignified, too boring. Only in Germany was it different, because there was a need to catch up after the end of the Second World War. The National Socialists had banned crime thrillers in general and Edgar Wallace in particular. With a few exceptions, the Edgar Wallace films were therefore the first since the expressionist films...


Rosamunde Pilcher: Herzensfragen
2011 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
The lieutenant Fraser is expelled from the army for saving the honor of his Superior. Since this gratefulness uses him as chauffeur in his familiar mansion. There it knows Lady Claire.


I Am the Other Woman
2006 · 1h 44m
country: Germany
Successful architect Robert has a one-night stand with a mysterious lady in red. The next day they meet again, but Carolin is now a corporate lawyer working on a major contract for Robert ...


Rosamunde Pilcher: Ruf der Vergangenheit
2000
country: Germany


Inside 'Diamonds Are Forever'
2000 · 30m
country: United States
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "Diamonds are Forever"


Inside 'You Only Live Twice'
2000 · 30m
country: Unknown
A behind the scenes look at the James Bond film "You Only Live Twice"


Rosamunde Pilcher: Der Preis der Liebe
1998 · 1h 28m
country: Germany
Henry Farland moves to the country with his wife Allison and daughter - to live with Jack, his benefactor. He is increasingly forcing his life ideas on the young family. Allison suffers greatly from this situation, but Henry enjoys this life to the fullest and even begins an affair with his childhood friend. But then Christopher suddenly appears in Allison's life, desperately looking for a donor for his leukemia-stricken son...


Mein Freund, der Lipizzaner
1994 · 1h 32m
country: Austria
Horse lover Paul Scheibner has dedicated himself to an unprofitable art: The young man wants to become a rider at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. When his uncomprehending girlfriend Regina leaves him for a nouveau riche hotelier's son, he finds solace with the animal-loving stud secretary Julia. But then his beloved stallion “Maestoso” suddenly falls ill and is to be sold.


Johann Strauss: The King Without a Crown
1987 · 2h 4m
country: Austria
A biopic about Austrian composer Johann Strauß.
Harald Reinl - Kino ohne Probleme
Harald Reinl - Kino ohne Probleme
1985 · 59m
country: Germany
Documentary about German director Harald Reinl
Gipfeltreffen
Gipfeltreffen
1985
country: Germany
Der Lord und das Kätzchen
Der Lord und das Kätzchen
1983
country: Germany
Four Against The Desert
Four Against The Desert
1977 · 1h 30m
country: United States
4 field researchers are stranded in the African Sahara.


Women in Hospital
1977 · 1h 21m
country: Germany
Schuman and Oberhoff are successful hospital doctors who treat pregnant women. However, their personal lives are a mess. Schuman has to deal with his drug-addicted wife Claudia, while Oberhoff deals with his teenage daughter's pregnancy.


Warhead
1977 · 1h 30m
country: Israel
A weapons expert is reluctantly sent on a mission to a middle-east warzone to locate a lost nuclear warhead and dismantle it before it falls into the wrong hands. But before he can complete his work, he is taken prisoner and thrust into the conflict, and finds himself looking out for more than just the warhead


Dark Echoes
1977 · 1h 31m
country: Austria
The zombie ghost of a sunken excursion boat captain haunts an Austrian lake in search of vengeance against those who caused the accident.


Only the Wind Knows the Answer
1974 · 1h 47m
country: France
The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.
Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies
Hochzeitsnacht im Paradies
1974
country: Germany


Haie an Bord
1971 · 1h 40m
country: Germany


Assignment Terror
1970 · 1h 27m
country: Germany
Aliens from a dying world plot to conquer earth by preying on man's superstitions. Bringing two dead scientists back to life, they use their knowledge to re-animate various earth monsters, including the werewolf, Frankenstein's monster, the mummy Tao-Tet, and the vampire Count de Meirhoff.


Topaz
1969 · 2h 7m
country: United States
Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French intelligence agent is caught up in a cold, silent and bloody spy war in which his own family will play a decisive role.


The Valley of Death
1968 · 1h 29m
country: Germany
An army gold shipment and its escort vanish in the Ozarks, prompting accusations of theft and desertion but frontiersman Old Shatterhand and Apache chief Winnetou help solve the mystery of the missing army gold.


Dear Caroline
1968 · 1h 43m
country: Italy
Against the backdrop of the French revolution, young Caroline tries to reunite with her first love, despite her arranged marriage to an older politician.


The Torture Chamber of Dr. Sadism
1967 · 1h 25m
country: Germany
In the Olden Tymes, Count Regula is drawn and quartered for killing twelve virgins in his dungeon torture chamber. Thirty-five years later, he comes back to seek revenge on the daughter of his intended thirteenth victim and the son of his prosecutor in order to attain immortal life.


You Only Live Twice
1967 · 1h 57m
country: United Kingdom
A mysterious spacecraft captures Russian and American space capsules and brings the two superpowers to the brink of war. James Bond investigates the case in Japan and comes face to face with his archenemy Blofeld.


Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy 2
1967 · 1h 30m
country: Germany
Now Brunhild knows by which treason she was won for king Gunther of Burgund by Siegfried of Xanthen, and has been revenged by his foul murder by Hagen, more bloody revenge is inevitable. Hagen steals the Nibelungen-treasure to sink it in the stream and manages to kill Alberich and seize his invisibility-cap. Queen Kriemhild is packed of to an abbey so her son may grow up to become a prelate, but Hagen's men raid them and kill the child. She now accepts to become the wife of Etzel, king of the truly barbaric Hun nomads and invites the Burgund court nomenclature at their Danube court for their heir's baptism a few years later, but prepared a bloody conspiracy with her xenophobic brother-in-law behind her surprisingly chivalric husband's back, while Gunther accepts, hoping to avoid a far bloodier war, despite the danger for his party of knights, which materializes...


Whom the Gods Wish to Destroy
1966 · 1h 31m
country: Germany
Siegfried of Xanten snatches the Nibelung treasure from the king of the underworld and slays the dragon Fafnir, whose blood makes him invulnerable. Siegfried falls in love with Kriemhild, the sister of the Burgundian king. But only if Siegfried helps Gunther marry Brunhild will he be allowed to marry Kriemhild. He fulfills this condition, but the two women bring ruin upon Xanten and Burgundy...


Target for Killing
1966 · 1h 33m
country: Italy
A secret agent is charged with preventing a crime syndicate's plot to assassinate a young heiress.


Where Are You Taking That Woman
1966 · 1h 34m
country: Austria
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


The Spy with Ten Faces
1966 · 1h 43m
country: Germany
Paul Hubsschmid is Paul Finney aka Upperseven, master of disguise. He's out to stop a diamond smuggling operation which fronts for a missile building project.


The Sinister Monk
1965 · 1h 27m
country: Germany
A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur.


I Knew Her Well
1965 · 1h 55m
country: Italy
A young woman from the Italian countryside experiences the dark side of the business after she moves to Rome to become a star.


The Desperado Trail
1965 · 1h 33m
country: Germany
Rollins' gang wants to grab land by inciting the settlers in a war against the Indians but Winnetou and Old Shatterhand try to keep the peace, until Rollins frames Winnetou up for the murder of Jicarilla Chief's son.


The Face of Fu Manchu
1965 · 1h 36m
country: Germany
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and clues keep leading back to the Thames.


The Last Tomahawk
1965 · 1h 32m
country: Italy
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Unkas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Falkenauge.


Hotel der toten Gäste
1965 · 1h 36m
country: Germany
London crime reporter Barney Blair has an appointment in his office with Janosch Kovac, the hotel detective at the Hotel Atlanta in San Remo. The informant wants to sell Blair some explosive background material, but it doesn't get that far because the man is stabbed to death beforehand. Blair goes to the hotel, where the film and music festival is currently taking place, to investigate the case himself and soon senses a big story.


Last of the Renegades
1964 · 1h 34m
country: France
Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the white men. Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and their sidekick Castlepool try to prevent this.


Room 13
1964 · 1h 29m
country: France
A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again...


The Secret of the Black Widow
1963 · 1h 40m
country: Germany
Someone is killing people related to a South American expedition. The means of murder are poison darts with rubber spiders attached to them. A writer and some police detectives investigate.


The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle
1963 · 1h 29m
country: Germany
A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.


The White Spider
1963 · 1h 43m
country: Germany
After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only able to confirm the corpse's identity by his talisman: a small, white spider. However, soon, there are more corpses walking around than at a comic con convention and every single one of them was a white spider sitting on or nearby the body.


Treasure of Silver Lake
1962 · 1h 51m
country: France
Fred Engel's father is murdered by Colonel Brinkley in order to acquire a treasure map, however the Colonel only acquires half of it, the other half as held by Mrs. Butler. Discovering the scene of the crime, Old Shatterhand and Winnetou help Fred bring his father's murderer to justice and locate the treasure of Silver Lake.


Ohne Krimi geht die Mimi nie ins Bett
1962 · 1h 19m
country: Austria
Consul Keyser, a factory owner, is vacationing with his daughter Marion on a Mediterranean island, hoping to bring her together with his assistant Dr. Thomas Steffen. On this island, however, the passionate fisherman Michael Lutz and his somewhat neglected admirer Barbara Holstein already spend their vacations.Michael asks the singer Bob Stuart, together with his band in their ghost costumes to drive away the annoying newcomers again. However, it no longer comes to this, because on behalf of Gina, the wife of the local police chief, real gangsters appear with the tourists and finally flee with their dinghy. So now the vacationers have to rely on each other willy-nilly, and the couples finally find each other.


The Carpet of Horror
1962 · 1h 32m
country: Germany
Shortly after his return from India, a special agent of the British secret service falls victim to an insidious poisoning in London. Scotland Yard gets involved. But too late: valuable information has fallen into the hands of an international criminal gang...


The Invisible Dr. Mabuse
1962 · 1h 28m
country: Germany
Strange things happen in a revue theatre. The dancer Maria seems to be hunted by an invisible admirer. When the body of a probable FBI agent is found in a trunk the police asks FBI man Joe Como for help. Como gets interested in the revue theatre and an ominous transport firm soon. When he is receiving mysterious threatening letters he is sure that Dr. Mabuse has risen again. But what is going on at "Enterprise X" so that both the goverment and the mad genius in crime are interested in it?


The Bellboy and the Playgirls
1962 · 1h 34m
country: Germany
A re-edited U.S. release of the 1958 West German film Mit Eva fing die Sünde an (Sin Began with Eve), The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962) features roughly fifteen minutes of new color footage directed by Francis Ford Coppola and edited by Jack Hill. The added material follows a bellboy who dreams of becoming a private detective and spies on a group of women at the hotel—lingerie sales representatives who give him more than enough to investigate.


Im schwarzen Rössl
1961 · 1h 35m
country: Austria
Eva, who earns her money as a call girl, learns that she has inherited the Palace Hotel in St. Wolfgang. She immediately quits her job and travels to Lake Wolfgang with her friend Maxie. But immediately upon arrival, they encounter a nasty surprise: the building is an old, dilapidated building with a mountain of debt. What now? The two pretty girls receive unexpected help from six students camping on the hotel lawn. Together, with rags and brooms, they transform the old Palace Hotel into the "Black Horse Inn." But in town, the competition, which, as we all know, never sleeps, is the renowned "White Horse Inn"...


My Sweetheart Wants to Go Sailing on Sunday
1961 · 1h 35m
country: Germany
Albert and Corinna begin a camping site in their backyard and soon welcome a bunch of eccentric, love lost holiday goers.


So angelt man keinen Mann
1961
country: Germany


The Forger of London
1961 · 1h 33m
country: Germany
A ring of counterfeiters is flooding the country with phony money, and suspicion falls upon a wealthy playboy who may--or may not--have amnesia.


Bei Pichler stimmt die Kasse nicht
1961
country: Unknown


The Green Archer
1961 · 1h 29m
country: Germany
The country estate of American emigre Abel Bellamy is haunted by the ghost of the Green Archer, a 14th century Robin Hood type figure who terrorised the former lords of the manor. Now, with the gangster coming home on vaguely defined business and his niece Valerie arriving with her adoptive father to take up residence in the adjacent mansion, much to Bellamy's annoyance, the archer has returned. Who is he and what does he want?


The White Horse Inn
1960 · 1h 43m
country: Austria
Leopold, head waiter at the "Weißen Rössl" (White Horse Inn), is secretly in love with the owner of the restaurant, Josepha. But she's only interested in the lawyer Dr. Siedler. Jealous, Leopold comes up with a plan to gain Josepha's attention.


The Terrible People
1960 · 1h 32m
country: Germany
The ghost of a hanged man returns to fulfill his promise. All of his accusers must die!


Ein Sommer, den man nie vergißt
1959 · 1h 32m
country: Germany
The young Ernst Leuchtenthal is planning to travel to the USA for a year to study. Before he leaves, his father asks him for a meeting. Consul Leuchtenthal wants to get his son a "good" marriage before he disappears overseas. The old man has the very young, attractive Christine von Auffenberg in mind, who runs a breeding farm for chinchillas. This would fit in well with the consul's business, as he earns good money as a fur trader. Ernst is not too keen on marrying a woman his father has chosen for him, especially as he does not love Christine. In the local children's home he meets the light-blonde Marianne, and for him it is like love at first sight.


Das blaue Meer und Du
1959 · 1h 33m
country: Germany
Director Heidebrink cannot prevent his daughter Helga from hitchhiking to the Adriatic Sea with her French friend Suzy. That's why he sends his employee Fred after them incognito. However, he becomes friends with the girls.
Skandal um Dodo
Skandal um Dodo
1959
country: Germany


13 Little Donkeys and the Sun Court
1958
country: Germany
Martha Krapp is amazed when her husband Josef suddenly appears at the door. He has rarely been seen in recent years, instead traveling the world and earning himself the nickname "Don Chaussee". In his absence, the bible-thumping Martha has been running the Sonnenhof children's home with loving severity.


Worüber man nicht spricht
1958
country: Germany


Sin Began with Eve
1958 · 1h 25m
country: Germany
During rehearsals for a provocative stage play, director Gregor clashes with young actress Dinah, who resists performing an intimate love scene. To challenge her views, he guides the cast through a series of imaginative theatrical tableaux spanning the history of love, art, and desire. As rehearsal and fantasy blur, past ideals confront modern attitudes, forcing the actors to reconsider what intimacy and morality mean both onstage and off.


Almenrausch und Edelweiß
1957 · 1h 39m
country: Austria
Friedl Meier, owner of a country hotel, inherits a large sum of money in dollars – but the problem is that the inheritance certificate is issued in the name Meyer with a “y,” the surname of Friedl's former fiancé Ferdinand, who later made a career for himself in the USA. As luck would have it, Ferdinand is spending his vacation at a nearby hotel – together with his butler Leo, who causes some confusion in the affair.


Die Zwillinge vom Zillertal
1957
country: Germany


Kleiner Mann - ganz groß
1957 · 1h 34m
country: Germany
His grandpa gives the orphan boy Robbie a foal that they call "little brother". The boy loves the animal and wants to train it as a racing horse - but then his grandpa dies. Robbie's sister isn't old enough to care for themselves, so they get a guardian who decides to sell all the horses. Robbie hides his "little brother" at a farm, but it's hard for him to come up with the rent regularly..


Santa Lucia
1956 · 1h 35m
country: Germany


As Long as You Live
1955 · 1h 43m
country: Unknown
Amidst the chaos of the Spanish Civil War, a nurse tends to a wounded pilot.
Ihre große Prüfung
Ihre große Prüfung
1954
country: Germany


Der schweigende Engel
1954 · 1h 34m
country: Germany
The deaf-mute little girl Angelika is a talented dancer and is trained by a ballet mistress so that she gets the leading role in an opera despite the intrigues of a rival. Angelika's brother gets out of prison and wants to build an honest life for himself, but falls back into the clutches of his former gang, who use him and the unsuspecting Angelika to circulate counterfeit money.


Rosen-Resli
1954 · 1h 25m
country: Germany
The nine-year-old orphan Therese has recently moved in with a family of gardeners. She continues to take loving care of her former foster mother, from whom she had to leave when she fell ill with a heart condition. With the help of old Jacob, the girl manages to grow a particularly beautiful rose. After some complications, this proves to be a stroke of luck, and not just for her.


Rosen aus dem Süden
1954 · 1h 42m
country: Germany


The Last Waltz
1953
country: Germany
The singer and dancer Vera Opalinska performs as Arlette in 1920s Paris, where she is a star. Next on the agenda is a tour of the United States. The contract is to be signed after a final, highly acclaimed show. During the negotiations, her new PR agent asks about her background.