Karin DorFilmography

Born:: February 22, 1936 in Wiesbaden, Germany
Occupation:: Actor
Birth name:: Kathe Rose Derr
Biography:: Redheaded German leading lady Karin Dor began showing up in European films in 1955. Only a handful of Dor's straight dramatic films have been seen in America, though her more saleable Westerns, sci-fi films, and horror-melodramas have gotten much play in U.S. theaters. Of her Western appearances...Read More

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I Am the Other Woman

Actors: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Katja Riemann, August Diehl, Barbara Auer, Karin Dor

Synopsis: Deadly secrets begin to seethe when the irresistable allure of a mysterious woman in red draws a weak-willed architect into a fateful one-night stand in director Margarethe von Trotta's entry into the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival. ~ Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide Read More

2006
Frauenstation

1976
Four Against the Desert

Synopsis: Some sources list Four Against the Desert as a 1979 release. Hal Frederick, Karin Dor and Ron Hayes head the cast, indicating that this obscure actioner was a Euro-American coproduction. The "four" of the title are ecologists, working in the Sahara. Fending off various despoilers, the Four attempt Read More

1975
Warhead

1974
Prisoner in the Middle

Synopsis: In this taut actioner a steely American officer races against the clock to prevent a radical group of Middle Easterners from obtaining a nuclear warhead that was accidentally lost somewhere in the desert between Jordan and Israel. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1974
Die Antwort Kennt Nur der Wind

Actors: Marthe Keller, Maurice Ronet, Raymond Pellegrin, Karin Dor

Synopsis: An insurance agent, informed that he will die young from a heart ailment, decides to live a wild and uproarious life in the time he has left. He finds himself involved in heart-stopping car chases and explosions on the Riviera while trying to fill in the gaps in an important police investigation. Read More

1974
Haie an Bord

1971
Assignment Terror

Synopsis: Spanish horror icon Paul Naschy wrote, co-produced and stars in (but did not direct) this sophomoric monster mash about a visitor from the dying planet Ummo (a badly-dubbed Michael Rennie, who's played better alien visitors) whose plan for dominating the people of Earth includes the reanimation of Read More

1970
The F.B.I.: The Target

Synopsis: Enemy agents hope to persuade defecting cabinet official Victor Dorman (David Frankham) to return to his own country--or, failing that, they plan to have him killed. For this purpose, the bad guys engage the services of Nicholas Blok (Eric Braeden), a coldblooded troubleshooter who specializes in Read More

1970
Ironside: Check, Mate: and Murder, Part 2

Synopsis: In the conclusion of a two-part story, Ironside (Raymond Burr) is still in Montreal, still trying to determine if a group of militant Separatists are responsible for a fatal bombing. Reluctantly teamed with flamboyant, cigar-smoking female mystery writer Ernestine Mugford (Hermione Gingold), the Read More

1970
Winnetou und Shatterhand Im Tal Der Toten

1/1/70
Ironside: Check, Mate: and Murder, Part 1

Synopsis: In the first episode of a two-part story, Ironside (Raymond Burr) arrives in Montreal to attending a criminologists convention. Dampening the festivities is a group of violent Separatists who specialize in terrorist bombings. Making things worse, one of the Separatists, Robert Duvalier (Alain Read More

1970
Die Screaming, Marianne

Actors: Susan George

Synopsis: The first horror film from notorious British director Pete Walker, this is a brutal but rather pedestrian pulp thriller about a fetching young go-go dancer (Susan George, in her first starring role) who is stalked in and around an isolated house by ruthless assassins determined to prevent her from Read More

1970
Topaz

Actors: Frederick Stafford, Dany Robin, John Vernon, Karin Dor, Michel Piccoli

Synopsis: Filmed on locations ranging from Denmark to the Universal backlot, Alfred Hitchcock's Topaz is based on a novel by Leon Uris. Frederick Stafford, a veteran of European-filmed James Bond rip-offs of the 1960s, is cast as Andre Devereaux, a French secret agent assigned to snoop around Cuba in the Read More

1969
El Hombre quel Vine dela Ummo

Actors: Michael Rennie

Synopsis: This is not the same film as the gosh-awful 1970 Al Adamson epic with J.Carroll Naish and Lon Chaney Jr. Originally titled Assignment Terror, this German/Spanish/Italian production stars Michael Rennie as an extraterrestrial invader. Unlike the pacifistic Klaatu, his character in The Day the Earth Stood Still Read More

1969
Caroline Cherie

Actors: Charles Aznavour

Synopsis: Caroline (France Anglade) is the heroine who is pushed by her father into a loveless marriage with a lawyer. Unknown to her new husband, she lost her virginity to a handsome young officer the day the peasants stormed the Bastille. When her husband flees the revolutionary fervor, Caroline engages Read More

1/18/68
Das Geheimnis Der Gelben Moenche

8/10/67
The Sinister Monk

Synopsis: A terrifying monk cuts a sinister figure in this grim story of blackmail murder and mayhem. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1967
You Only Live Twice

Actors: Sean Connery, Akiko Wakabayashi, Tetsuro Tamba, Mie Hama, Teru Shimada, Karin Dor

Synopsis: James Bond heads East to save the world (and to learn how to serve saki properly) in this action-packed espionage adventure. When an American spacecraft disappears during a mission, it's widely believed to have been intercepted by the Soviet Union, and after a Russian space capsule similarly goes Read More

1967
Castle of the Walking Dead

Actors: Lex Barker

Synopsis: Just the thing for spooky Halloween-night viewing, this good-looking German film from director Harald Reinl tells the story of the horrible Count Regula (Christopher Lee), who murdered a dozen virgins and drained their blood. For these heinous crimes, he was sentenced to be drawn and quartered. Read More

1967
Die Nibelungen, Teil 1: Siegfried

Actors: Uwe Beyer, Rolf Henniger, Siegfried Wischnewski, Maria Marlow

Synopsis: Director Harald Reinl takes this epic sword-and-sorcery fantasy from the 12th-century Teutonic legend and from the 1924 Fritz Lang silent classic. Siegfried (Uwe Beyer) is a heroic warrior who bathes in dragon's blood to become nearly invincible. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

1966
Die Nibelungen, Teil 2: Kriemhilds Rache

Actors: Karin Dor, Herbert Lom, Maria Marlow, Rolf Henniger, Siegfried Wischnewski

Synopsis: Siegfried's wife Kriemhild (Maria Marlow) seeks vengeance after she learns of her husband' death. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1966
Io la Conoscevo Bene

Actors: Stefania Sandrelli, Nino Manfredi, Ugo Tognazzi, Robert Hoffman, Jean-Claude Brialy, Mario Adorf

Synopsis: Adriana (Stefania Sandrelli) is a young woman from the country who gets caught up in the tempestuous temptations of the big city in this somber moral drama. She has a series of affairs that are just for fun, but she becomes depressed when she desperately looks for a more meaningful relationship. Read More

12/1/65
Der letzte Mohikaner

Actors: Daniel Martin

Synopsis: In this adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's Last of the Mohicans, a daring rescue is planned. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1965
The Face of Fu Manchu

Actors: Christopher Lee, Nigel Green, Howard Marion-Crawford, Tsai Chin

Synopsis: In this drama, the devilish Chinese villain has concocted a deadly gas. He tries it out in a small English town and is delighted to discover that it is terribly effective. He then travels to the Thames with his daughter. There he has an explosive encounter with the hero who stops the evil plot. Read More

1965
Killer's Carnival

Synopsis: Three espionage stories with drug smuggling, political assassination and secret agents set in Rome, Vienna and Brazil. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1965
Il Castello dei Morti Vivi

Synopsis: A traveling circus visits the Gothic abode of the evil Count Drago (Christopher Lee), whose pastimes include experimenting on various animals with his potions and formulas. Naturally, he's no longer content to stop there, and the visitors become unwilling participants in the next horrific Read More

8/5/64
Winnetou II

Actors: Lex Barker, Pierre Brice, Anthony Steel, Karin Dor, Klaus Kinski

Synopsis: In this western, an entry in the "Winnetou" series based on Germany's Karl May's novels, follows the attempts of two con men to cheat the Apaches out of their oil rights. They are foiled by Old Shatterhand and Winnetou, his Apache partner. The film was made on location in Yugoslavia. ~ Sandra Read More

1964
Zimmer 13

Actors: Joachim Fuchsberger, Karin Dor, Richard Haeussler, Kai Fischer, Walter Rilia

Synopsis: This crime thriller contains enough comedy and blood to interest almost any movie fan. Shady underworld thugs gather in a seedy Soho hotel in Room 13 to plan a train robbery. They plan to rendezvous in the mansion of a member of Parliament who is being blackmailed for his ties to the gang 20 years Read More

1964
The Carpet of Horror

Synopsis: A knock-off of the popular Edgar Wallace crime melodramas, this horror outing has a villainous master spy threatening London with a poison-gas spewing ball. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1964
As Long As You Live

Synopsis: Not generally released in the U.S. until 1964, As Long as You Live originally premiered in Germany in 1955 under the title Solange du Lebst. Popular German film star Marianne Koch stars as a nurse in a sleepy Spanish village during the 1936 Civil War. Refusing to escape when given a chance, Koch Read More

1964
Das Geheimnis der schwarzen Witwe

Synopsis: People are being shot with bullets shaped like black widow spiders, and now it's up to London Sensation reporter Welby to track down the killer. When Welby discovers that the leader of an old Mexican expedition was killed by the bite of a black widow, his investigation leads him to the darkest Read More

1963
The White Spider

1963
The Strangler of Blackmoor Castle

Synopsis: In this mystery, a Scotland Yard detective journeys to a mysterious English castle to determine which of the guests is murdering the others. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1963
Bellboy and the Playgirls

Synopsis: Originally filmed entirely in black-and-white, this German sex comedy centers on a bellhop who prepares for his dream job of becoming a detective by spying on half-naked chorines through a keyhole. Just before the film was distributed in the US, Francis Ford Coppola was hired to add additional Read More

1962
The Invisible Dr. Mabuse

Actors: Lex Barker, Karin Dor

Synopsis: Though director Fritz Lang, who started the "Dr. Mabuse" ball rolling back in 1922, had washed his hands of the series in the early 1960s, the Mabuse films kept popping up throughout the decade. This one stars Lex Barker as a New York detective investigating the criminal activities of the Read More

1962
Der Schatz im Silbersee

Actors: Pierre Brice, Lex Barker, Götz George, Herbert Lom, Karin Dor, Eddie Arent

Synopsis: Although filmed by a joint German-Yugoslav crew, this European western is set in the Southern United States and involves an oddly-named hero, Old Shatterhand (Lex Barker of Tarzan fame). O.S. has a sidekick, Winnetou, an Apache chief played by a rather understated Pierre Brice. The fuel behind the Read More

1962
Der Falscher von London

Actors: Siegfried Lowitz

Synopsis: In this mystery, based on a story by Edgar Wallace, Scotland Yard looks into a ring of counterfeiters. He soon discovers that an amnesiac playboy is linked to the gang of forgers. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1961
Der Grüne Bogenschutze

Synopsis: In the early 1960s, two separate series of second features based on the novels of prolific (and long-dead) suspense author Edgar Wallace were inaugurated. One series was subsidized by London's Jack Greenwood productions and filmed principally for television. The other series, assembled in West Read More

1961
Die Bande des Schreckens

Synopsis: In this horror movie, a bank robber is condemned to die. Later he returns from the dead to torment his prosecutors. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

1960
Im Weissen Roessl

Synopsis: This comical presentation is a re-make from the 1952 classic and has everyone chasing everyone! In German only. ~ All Movie Guide Read More

1960
Das Blaue Meer und Du

1959
Mit Eva fing die Sünde an

1958
Skandal Um Dodo

1958
Dreizehn Alte Esel

1958
Almenrausch und Edelweiss

1957
Kleiner Mann - Ganz Gross

1957
Solange du Lebst

Actors: Marianne Koch, Adrian Hoven, Kurt Heintel, Willy Roesner, Karin Dor

Synopsis: Solange du Lebst (As Long as You Live) is set during the Spanish Civil War. Though most of the citizens of a small Spanish town evacuate before the arrival of the Communist troops, nurse Marianne Koch elects to remain behind. She eventually falls in love with a downed German pilot, despite the Read More

1955
Rosen-Resli

1954

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