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Conrad Veidt
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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…
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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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Conrad Veidt's Filmography
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Vito
as Self (archive footage)
No Poster
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
as Jaffar (archival footage)
The Many Faces of Dracula
as Self (archive footage)
Universal Horror
as (archive footage)
No Poster
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
as Self (archive footage)
Above Suspicion
as Hassert Seidel
Casablanca
as Major Heinrich Strasser
Nazi Agent
as Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
All Through the Night
as Franz Ebbing
The Men in Her Life
as Stanislas Rosing
Whistling in the Dark
as Joseph Jones
A Woman's Face
as Torsten Barring
Escape
as General Kurt von Kolb
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
Contraband
as Capt. Andersen
The Thief of Bagdad
as Jaffar
The Spy in Black
as Captain Ernst Hardt
The Chess Player
as Le baron de Kempelen
Tempête sur l'Asie
as Erich Keith
Dark Journey
as Baron Karl Von Marwitz
Under the Red Robe
as Gil de Berault
King of the Damned
as Convict 83
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
as The Stranger
Bella Donna
as Mahmoud Baroudi
Jew Süss
as Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer
No Poster
William Tell
as Gessler
The Wandering Jew
as Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios
I Was a Spy
as Commandant Oberaertz
F.P.1
as Maj. Ellissen
The Only Girl
as Marquis de Pontignac
Rome Express
as Zurta
The Black Hussar
as Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg
Rasputin, Demon of the Women
as Grigori Rasputin
The Other Side
as Hauptmann Stanhope
Congress Dances
as Fürst Metternich
The Night of the Decision
as General Gregori Platoff
The Man Who Committed the Murder
as Oberst Marquis de Sévigné
The Love Storm
as Kingsley
The Great Desire
as Himself
The Last Company
as Hauptmann Burk
The Last Performance
as Erik the Great
Das Land ohne Frauen
as Dick Ashton
No Poster
The Movie City of Hollywood
as Self
The Man Who Laughs
as Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie
Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
A Man's Past
as Paul La Roche
The Beloved Rogue
as King Louis XI
Napoleon
as Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
The Flight in the Night
as Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV
The Student of Prague
as Balduin, Student
Love Is Blind
Should We Be Silent?
as Paul Hartwig, Maler
No Poster
Two Brothers
as Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg
Impetuous Youth
as Renées Vater
The Wife's Crusade
as Der Staatsanwalt
The Ingmar Inheritance
as Hellgum
Le Comte Kostia
as Comte Kostia
No Poster
Schicksal
Husbands or Lovers
as Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter
Waxworks
as Ivan the Terrible
The Hands of Orlac
as Paul Orlac
The Film in the Film
as Self
Don Carlos und Elisabeth
as Don Carlos
William Tell
as Hermann Gessler
Paganini
as Niccolo Paganini
No Poster
Glanz gegen Glück
Lucrezia Borgia
as Cesare Borgia
The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
as Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
as Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
Lady Hamilton
as Lord Nelson
Danton
as Minor Role (rumored)
Landstraße und Großstadt
as Raphael, der Geiger
Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
as Christian Wahnschaffe
No Poster
Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft
Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
as Hektor Dalmore
No Poster
Liebestaumel
as Jalenko
Journey into the Night
as Der Maler
People in Ecstasy
as Professor Munk
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
as Tossi
Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
as Ivan
The Count of Cagliostro
as Minister
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Christian Wahnschaffe
No Poster
Manolescu's Memoirs
as Manolescu
Evening – Night – Morning
as Brilburn - Maud's brother
Moriturus
as Wilmos, sanatorium director
The Head of Janus
as Dr. Warren
No Poster
Künstlerlaunen
No Poster
Kurfürstendamm
as The devil
No Poster
The Eyes of the World
as Johannes Kay
No Poster
Patience
as Sir Percy Parker
No Poster
Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
as Cesare
The Merry-Go-Round
as Petre Karvan
Figures of the Night
as The clown
Eerie Tales
as Der Tod / Various Other Roles
No Poster
Wahnsinn
as Bankier Lorenzen
Prinz Kuckuck
as Carl Kraker
Prostitution II
as Alfred Werner
No Poster
The Ocarina
Different from the Others
as Paul Körner
No Poster
Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod
Around the World in 80 Days
as Phineas Fogg
Prostitution
as Alfred Werner
The Japanese Woman
Opium
as Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.
No Poster
Nocturno der Liebe
as Frederic Chopin
No Poster
Opfer der Gesellschaft
No Poster
The Mexican
as Dr. von Dossen
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
as Doktor Köstling
The Story of Dida Ibsen
as Erik Norrensen
Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
as Kramer
Colomba
as Henryk von Rhyn
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
as Doktor Köstling
Diary of a Lost Woman
as Dr. Julius
Not of the Woman Born
as Satan
Das Dreimäderlhaus
as Schober
The Mystery of Bangalore
as Dinja
Fear
as Indian Priest
No Poster
Der Spion
as Steinau
Wenn Tote sprechen
as Richard von Worth
