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person_profile-Conrad Veidt

Conrad Veidt Died at age: 50

Actor | Producer

Fullname:

Conrad Veidt

Date of Birth:

Jan 22, 1893

Country of birth:

Germany

Died:

Apr 03, 1943

Biography of

Conrad Veidt

    Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as Different from the Others (1919), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and The Man Who Laughs (1928). After a successful career in German silent film, where he was one of the best-paid stars of Ufa, he was forced to leave Germany in 1933 with his new Jewish wife after the Nazis came to power. They settled in Britain, where he participated in a number of films, including The Thief of Bagdad (1940), before emigrating to the United States around 1941, which lead to him having a supporting role in Casablanca (1942).

    From 1916 until his death, Veidt appeared in more than 100 films. One of his earliest performances was as the murderous somnambulist Cesare in director Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), a classic of German Expressionist cinema, with Werner Krauss and Lil Dagover. His starring role in The Man Who Laughs (1928), as a disfigured circus performer whose face is cut into a permanent grin, provided the (visual) inspiration for the Batman villain the Joker, created in 1940 by Bill Finger. Veidt also starred in other silent horror films such as The Hands of Orlac (1924), another film directed by Robert Wiene, The Student of Prague (1926) and Waxworks (1924) where he played Ivan the Terrible.

    Veidt also appeared in Magnus Hirschfeld's film Anders als die Andern (Different from the Others, 1919), one of the first films to sympathetically portray homosexuality, although the characters in it do not end up happily. He had a leading role in Germany's first talking picture, Das Land ohne Frauen (Land Without Women, 1929).

    He moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s and made a few films, but the advent of talking pictures and his difficulty with speaking English led him to return to Germany. During this period he lent his expertise to tutoring aspiring performers, one of whom was the later American character actress Lisa Golm.

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Filmography of

Conrad Veidt

Found 82 Movies in total

The Many Faces of Dracula

Self (archive footage) ( Actor )

... 2000

Universal Horror

(archive footage) ( Actor )

... 1998

... 1974

Above Suspicion

Hassert Seidel ( Actor )

... 1943

Casablanca

Major Heinrich Strasser ( Actor )

... 1943

Nazi Agent

Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner ( Actor )

... 1942

All Through the Night

Franz Ebbing ( Actor )

... 1942

The Men in Her Life

Stanislas Rosing ( Actor )

... 1941

Whistling in the Dark

Joseph Jones ( Actor )

... 1941

A Woman's Face

Torsten Barring ( Actor )

... 1941

Escape

General Kurt von Kolb ( Actor )

... 1940

Contraband

Capt. Andersen ( Actor )

... 1940

The Thief of Bagdad

Jaffar ( Actor )

... 1940

The Spy in Black

Captain Ernst Hardt ( Actor )

... 1939

The Chess Player

Le baron de Kempelen ( Actor )

... 1938

Tempête sur l'Asie

Erich Keith ( Actor )

... 1938

Dark Journey

Baron Karl Von Marwitz ( Actor )

... 1937

Under the Red Robe

Gil de Berault ( Actor )

... 1937

King of the Damned

Convict 83 ( Actor )

... 1935

... 1935

Bella Donna

Mahmoud Baroudi ( Actor )

... 1934

Jew Süss

Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer ( Actor )

... 1934

The Wandering Jew

Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios ( Actor )

... 1933

I Was a Spy

Commandant Oberaertz ( Actor )

... 1933

F.P.1

Maj. Ellissen ( Actor )

... 1933

The Only Girl

Marquis de Pontignac ( Actor )

... 1933

Rome Express

Zurta ( Actor )

... 1932

The Black Hussar

Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg ( Actor )

... 1932

Rasputin, Demon of the Women

Grigori Rasputin ( Actor )

... 1932

Congress Dances

Prince Metternich ( Actor )

... 1931

The Other Side

Hauptmann Stanhope ( Actor )

... 1931

The Congress Dances

Fürst Metternich ( Actor )

... 1931

The Man Who Committed the Murder

Oberst Marquis de Sévigné ( Actor )

... 1931

The Love Storm

Kingsley ( Actor )

... 1930

The Great Passion

Himself ( Actor )

... 1930

The Last Company

Hauptmann Burk ( Actor )

... 1930

The Last Performance

Erik the Great ( Actor )

... 1929

Das Land ohne Frauen

Dick Ashton ( Actor )

... 1929

The Man Who Laughs

Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie ( Actor )

... 1928

A Man's Past

Paul La Roche ( Actor )

... 1927

The Beloved Rogue

King Louis XI ( Actor )

... 1927

Napoleon

Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade ( Actor )

... 1927

The Student of Prague

Balduin, Student ( Actor )

... 1926

Should We Be Silent?

Paul Hartwig, Maler ( Actor )

... 1926

Impetuous Youth

Renées Vater ( Actor )

... 1926

The Wife's Crusade

Der Staatsanwalt ( Actor )

... 1926

The Ingmar Inheritance

Hellgum ( Actor )

... 1925

Le Comte Kostia

Comte Kostia ( Actor )

... 1925

Husbands or Lovers

Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter ( Actor )

... 1924

Waxworks

Ivan the Terrible ( Actor )

... 1924

The Hands of Orlac

Paul Orlac ( Actor )

... 1924

Don Carlos und Elisabeth

Don Carlos ( Actor )

... 1924

Paganini

Niccolo Paganini ( Actor )

... 1923

Lucrezia Borgia

Cesare Borgia ( Actor )

... 1922

The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur

Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur ( Actor )

... 1921

The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi

Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur ( Actor )

... 1921

Lady Hamilton

Lord Nelson ( Actor )

... 1921

Landstraße und Großstadt

Raphael, der Geiger ( Actor )

... 1921

... 1921

Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore

Hektor Dalmore ( Actor )

... 1921

Journey into the Night

Der Maler ( Actor )

... 1921

... 1921

... 1921

The Count of Cagliostro

Minister ( Actor )

... 1920

Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand

Christian Wahnschaffe ( Actor )

... 1920

Evening – Night – Morning

Brilburn - Maud's brother ( Actor )

... 1920

Moriturus

Wilmos, sanatorium director ( Actor )

... 1920

... 1920

The Merry-Go-Round

Petre Karvan ( Actor )

... 1920

Figures of the Night

The clown ( Actor )

... 1920

Eerie Tales

Der Tod / Various Other Roles ( Actor )

... 1919

Prinz Kuckuck

Carl Kraker ( Actor )

... 1919

Prostitution II

Alfred Werner ( Actor )

... 1919

Different from the Others

Paul Körner ( Actor )

... 1919

Around the World in 80 Days

Phineas Fogg ( Actor )

... 1919

Prostitution

Alfred Werner ( Actor )

... 1919

Opium

Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr. ( Actor )

... 1919

The Story of Dida Ibsen

Erik Norrensen ( Actor )

... 1918

Diary of a Lost Woman

Dr. Julius ( Actor )

... 1918

Fear

Indian Priest ( Actor )

... 1917

... 1917