Conrad Veidt
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- 22 janvier 1893 · Berlin, Germany
- 3 avril 1943
Biographie
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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Filmographie
- Vito · En personne
- Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad · Jaffar (archival footage)
- The Many Faces of Dracula · En personne
- Universal Horror · (archive footage)
- The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute · En personne
- Above Suspicion · Hassert Seidel
- Casablanca · Major Heinrich Strasser
- Nazi Agent · Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
- Echec à la Gestapo · Franz Ebbing
- The Men in Her Life · Stanislas Rosing
- Whistling in the Dark · Joseph Jones
- Il était une fois · Torsten Barring
- Évasion · General Kurt von Kolb
- A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound · En personne
- Espionne à bord · Capt. Andersen
- Le Voleur de Bagdad · Jaffar
- L'Espion noir · Captain Ernst Hardt
- Le Joueur d'échecs · Le baron de Kempelen
- Tempête sur l'Asie · Erich Keith
- Le mystère de la section 8 · Baron Karl Von Marwitz
- Under the Red Robe · Gil de Berault
- King of the Damned · Convict 83
- The Passing of the Third Floor Back · The Stranger
- Bella Donna · Mahmoud Baroudi
- Le Juif Süss · Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer
- Wilhelm Tell · Gessler
- The Wandering Jew · Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios
- J'étais une espionne · Commandant Oberaertz
- F.P.1 · Maj. Ellissen
- Moi et l'imprératrice · Marquis de Pontignac
- Rome Express · Zurta
- Der schwarze Husar · Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg
- Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen · Grigori Rasputin
- L'Autre Côté · Hauptmann Stanhope
- Le congrès s'amuse · Fürst Metternich
- Die Nacht der Entscheidung · General Gregori Platoff
- Der Mann, der den Mord beging · Oberst Marquis de Sévigné
- Menschen im Käfig · Kingsley
- Die große Sehnsucht · En personne
- Die letzte Kompagnie · Hauptmann Burk
- The Last Performance · Erik the Great
- Das Land ohne Frauen · Dick Ashton
- Die Filmstadt Hollywood · En personne
- L'Homme qui rit · Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie
- Gesetze der Liebe
- A Man's Past · Paul La Roche
- The Beloved Rogue · King Louis XI
- Napoléon · Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
- Die Flucht in die Nacht · Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV
- L'étudiant de Prague · Balduin, Student
- Liebe macht blind
- Dürfen wir schweigen? · Paul Hartwig, Maler
- Die Brüder Schellenberg · Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg
- Le violoniste de Florence · Renées Vater
- Kreuzzug des Weibes · Der Staatsanwalt
- Ingmarsarvet · Hellgum
- Le Comte Kostia · Comte Kostia
- Schicksal
- Nju - Eine unverstandene Frau · Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter
- Le Cabinet des figures de cire · Ivan the Terrible
- Les mains d'Orlac · Paul Orlac
- Der Film im Film · En personne
- Don Carlos und Elisabeth · Don Carlos
- Wilhelm Tell · Hermann Gessler
- Paganini · Niccolo Paganini
- Glanz gegen Glück
- Lucrezia Borgia · Cesare Borgia
- Le Tombeau hindou, partie 2 : Le Tigre du Bengale · Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
- Le Tombeau hindou, partie 1 : La Mission du Yogi · Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
- Lady Hamilton · Lord Nelson
- Danton · Minor Role (rumored)
- Landstraße und Großstadt · Raphael, der Geiger
- Christian Wahnschaffe, 2. Teil: Die Flucht aus dem goldenen Kerker · Christian Wahnschaffe
- Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft
- Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore · Hektor Dalmore
- Liebestaumel · Jalenko
- Der Gang in die Nacht · Der Maler
- Menschen im Rausch · Professor Munk
- Das Geheimnis von Bombay · Tossi
- Sehnsucht · Ivan