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Conrad Veidt
Born · January 22, 1893
Died · April 3, 1943 (50 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Berlin, Germany
Bio
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.
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
Jaffar (archival footage)
7.0
2008
The Many Faces of Dracula
Self (archive footage)
3.5
2000
Universal Horror
(archive footage)
7.2
1998
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Self (archive footage)
7.7
1974
Above Suspicion
Hassert Seidel
6.5
1943
Casablanca
Major Heinrich Strasser
8.2
1943
Nazi Agent
Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
6.6
1942
All Through the Night
Franz Ebbing
7.0
1942
The Men in Her Life
Stanislas Rosing
6.0
1941
Whistling in the Dark
Joseph Jones
5.8
1941
A Woman's Face
Torsten Barring
6.9
1941
Escape
General Kurt von Kolb
7.4
1940
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
6.7
1940
Contraband
Capt. Andersen
6.9
1940
The Thief of Bagdad
Jaffar
7.1
1940
The Spy in Black
Captain Ernst Hardt
6.4
1939
The Chess Player
Le baron de Kempelen
4.7
1938
Tempête sur l'Asie
Erich Keith
0.0
1938
Dark Journey
Baron Karl Von Marwitz
6.4
1937
Under the Red Robe
Gil de Berault
6.0
1937
King of the Damned
Convict 83
6.0
1935
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
The Stranger
7.6
1935
Bella Donna
Mahmoud Baroudi
3.5
1934
Jew Süss
Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer
5.0
1934
Wilhelm Tell
Gessler
5.0
1934
The Wandering Jew
Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios
7.6
1933
I Was a Spy
Commandant Oberaertz
5.5
1933
F.P.1
Maj. Ellissen
6.4
1933
The Only Girl
Marquis de Pontignac
6.0
1933
Rome Express
Zurta
6.2
1932
The Black Hussar
Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg
6.5
1932
Rasputin, Demon of the Women
Grigori Rasputin
7.5
1932
Congress Dances
Prince Metternich
0.0
1931
The Other Side
Hauptmann Stanhope
7.0
1931
The Congress Dances
Fürst Metternich
7.2
1931
The Night of the Decision
0.0
1931
The Man Who Committed the Murder
Oberst Marquis de Sévigné
5.2
1931
The Love Storm
Kingsley
0.0
1930
The Great Passion
Himself
6.5
1930
The Last Company
Hauptmann Burk
6.0
1930
The Last Performance
Erik the Great
6.2
1929
Das Land ohne Frauen
Dick Ashton
0.0
1929
The Movie City of Hollywood
Self
6.0
1928
The Man Who Laughs
Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie
7.3
1928
Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
5.4
1927
A Man's Past
Paul La Roche
6.0
1927
The Beloved Rogue
King Louis XI
7.0
1927
Napoleon
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
7.8
1927
The Flight in the Night
Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV
0.0
1926
The Student of Prague
Balduin, Student
6.6
1926
Liebe macht blind
0.0
1926
Should We Be Silent?
Paul Hartwig, Maler
5.0
1926
Two Brothers
Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg
4.7
1926
Impetuous Youth
Renées Vater
6.7
1926
The Wife's Crusade
Der Staatsanwalt
0.0
1926
The Ingmar Inheritance
Hellgum
7.2
1925
Le Comte Kostia
Comte Kostia
0.0
1925
Schicksal
0.0
1925
Husbands or Lovers
Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter
5.3
1924
Waxworks
Ivan the Terrible
6.4
1924
The Hands of Orlac
Paul Orlac
6.8
1924
The Film in the Film
Self
7.5
1924
Don Carlos und Elisabeth
Don Carlos
6.0
1924
Wilhelm Tell
Hermann Gessler
5.2
1923
Paganini
Niccolo Paganini
0.0
1923
Glanz gegen Glück
0.0
1923
Lucrezia Borgia
Cesare Borgia
4.4
1922
The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
5.9
1921
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
5.5
1921
Lady Hamilton
Lord Nelson
5.8
1921
Landstraße und Großstadt
Raphael, der Geiger
0.0
1921
Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
Christian Wahnschaffe
0.0
1921
Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft
0.0
1921
Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
Hektor Dalmore
6.0
1921
Liebestaumel
Jalenko
4.0
1921
Journey into the Night
Der Maler
5.9
1921
Menschen im Rausch
Professor Munk
0.0
1921
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
Tossi
0.0
1921
Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
Ivan
0.0
1921
The Count of Cagliostro
Minister
0.0
1920
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Christian Wahnschaffe
0.0
1920
Manolescu's Memoirs
Manolescu
0.0
1920
Evening – Night – Morning
Brilburn - Maud's brother
0.0
1920
Moriturus
Wilmos, sanatorium director
0.0
1920
The Head of Janus
Dr. Warren
0.0
1920
Künstlerlaunen
0.0
1920
Kurfürstendamm
The devil
0.0
1920
Die Augen der Welt
Johannes Kay
0.0
1920
Patience
Sir Percy Parker
0.0
1920
Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
0.0
1920
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Cesare
7.9
1920
The Merry-Go-Round
Petre Karvan
5.0
1920
Figures of the Night
The clown
0.0
1920
Eerie Tales
Der Tod / Various Other Roles
5.5
1919
Wahnsinn
Bankier Lorenzen
0.0
1919
Prinz Kuckuck
Carl Kraker
0.0
1919
Prostitution II
Alfred Werner
0.0
1919
Die Okarina
0.0
1919
Different from the Others
Paul Körner
6.9
1919
Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod
0.0
1919
Around the World in 80 Days
Phineas Fogg
5.5
1919
Prostitution
Alfred Werner
0.0
1919
Die Japanerin
0.0
1919
Opium
Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.
6.2
1919
Die Mexikanerin
Dr. von Dossen
0.0
1919
Nocturno der Liebe
Frederic Chopin
0.0
1919
Opfer der Gesellschaft
0.0
1919
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
Doktor Köstling
0.0
1918
The Story of Dida Ibsen
Erik Norrensen
0.0
1918
Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
Kramer
0.0
1918
Colomba
Henryk von Rhyn
0.0
1918
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
Doktor Köstling
0.0
1918
Diary of a Lost Woman
Dr. Julius
0.0
1918
Not of the Woman Born
Satan
0.0
1918
Das Dreimäderlhaus
Schober
0.0
1918
Das Rätsel von Bangalor
Dinja
0.0
1918
Fear
Indian Priest
5.4
1917
Der Spion
Steinau
0.0
1917
Wenn Tote sprechen
Richard von Worth
0.0
1917
Der Weg des Todes
0.0
1917