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Charles Korvin

Charles Korvin

Charles Korvin (born Géza Korvin Kárpáthy) was an American film, television and stage actor. He was bottom of the professional still and motion picture photographer and master chef.

The English actor moved to Paris around 1930. He studied at the Sorbonne and during his ten years living in France, he was hired by Yvon, the famous French postcard company, shooting on location all over the country. In 1937, he was hired for the CBC documentary film project about the renowned Canadian medical doctor, Norman Bethune. Entitled start with “Heart of Spain”, Korvin photographed and co-directed the anti-Franco film which was shot on the front lines during the Spanish Civil War. Moving to the United States in 1940, Korvin studied acting and stagecraft at the Barter Theater in Abingdon, Virginia. As Geza Korvin, he made his Broadway stage debut in 1943, playing on the Russian nobleman's in the play, Dark Eyes. After signing the movie contract with Universal Pictures, he changed his stage name to Charles Korvin.

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Movies Starring Charles Korvin (13)

Inside Out (1975)

An American ex-WW II POW returns to Germany 30 years after the war. He teams up with the former commander of his prison camp. Together they spring a Nazi war criminal from jail. He's the only one left who knows where a secret wartime cache of gold is hidde ...

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The Man Who Had Power Over Women (1970)

A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man's wife, he also acquires a difficult new client whose public image must be preserved at any cost. ...

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Ship of Fools (1965)

Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that era. The crew is German, including the ship's Dr. Schumann, who falls in love with one of the passengers, La Condesa. A young American woman, Jenny, is tra ...

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Zorro, the Avenger (1959)

Masked crusader Zorro and his father, Don Alejandro, face off against mysterious despot The Eagle in a fight for control of old Spanish California. ...

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Thunderstorm (1956)

A luminously beautiful, provocative young woman is rescued near a small fishing village on the Spanish coast. The scene is set for a drama of dangerous passion that threatens to tear apart the simple, tranquil life of the village forever. ...

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Sangaree (1953)

Lamas plays an indentured servant who rises to power in Georgia shortly after the Revolutionary War. ...

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Lydia Bailey (1952)

A young Boston lawyer, Albron Hamlin, goes to Haiti in 1802 to find Lydia Bailey, whose estate he must settle. The island is war-torn in the strife between Toussaing L'Overture, the black president, and the French who are trying to retake possession of the ...

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Tarzan's Savage Fury (1952)

The jungle king's cousin tries to get him to help find a diamond treasure. ...

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The Killer That Stalked New York (1950)

In New York, Sheila Bennet and her spouse, Matt Krane, are trying to unload a trove of rare jewels they smuggled into America from Cuba, but the police are hot on the couple's trail. Meanwhile, government officials begin a desperate search for an unknown i ...

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Berlin Express (1948)

In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot. ...

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Temptation (1946)

After marrying an archaeologist, a Victorian-era woman with a sordid past realizes that she is not ready to settle down with one man. ...

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This Love of Ours (1945)

At a convention, medical researcher Michel Touzac goes with colleagues to see stage caricaturist Targel, whose assistant Florence recognizes him...and attempts suicide. Saved by Touzac's new technique, Florence is revealed in a flashback as Michel's abando ...

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Enter Arsène Lupin (1944)

A rich but naive young woman is in possession of some priceless jewels. She herself doesn't know it, but a gang of jewel thieves does. ...

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Movies Made By Charles Korvin (1)

Heart of Spain (1937)

The first production from Frontier Films, the film production collective that was the successor to NYKino and the Workers Film and Photo League, Heart of Spain focuses on the Spanish Civil War, a conflict that became a touchstone of its era and was the mos ...

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