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Harry Baur
Born · April 12, 1880
Died · April 8, 1943 (62 years old)
Known For: Acting
Place of Birth: Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France
Bio
Harry Baur (12 April 1880 – 8 April 1943) was a French actor. Initially a stage actor, Baur appeared in about 80 films between 1909 and 1942. He gave an acclaimed performance as the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in the biopic Beethoven's Great Love (Un grand amour de Beethoven, 1936), directed by Abel Gance, and as Jean Valjean in Raymond Bernard's version of Les Misérables (1934). He also acted in Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset's silent film, Beethoven (1909), and in La voyante (1923), Sarah Bernhardt's last film. In 1942, while in Berlin, to star in his last film Symphone eines Lebens, Baur's wife was arrested by the Gestapo and charged with espionage. His effort to secure her release led to his own arrest and torture. He was being falsely labelled as a Jew but confirmed freemason. He was released in April 1943, but died in Paris shortly after in mysterious circumstances. Academy Award-winning American actor Rod Steiger cited Baur as one of his favorite actors who had exerted a major influence on his craft and career.
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage) · (1 episode)
0.0
1978
Stars Never Die
Self (archive footage)
0.0
1957
Symphonie eines Lebens
Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor
0.0
1943
Sins of Youth
Monsieur Lacalade
5.5
1941
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Gaspard Cornusse
6.6
1941
Volpone
Volpone
6.7
1941
African Diary
Docteur Bourdet
5.8
1940
President Haudecoeur
President Haudecoeur
6.0
1940
Le Patriote
Le Tsar
0.0
1938
The Postmaster's Daughter
Virine, le maitre de poste
0.0
1938
The Rebel Son
Taras Bulba
0.0
1938
Rasputin
Rasputin
5.0
1938
Hatred
le capitaine Mollenard
7.4
1938
Life Dances On
Alain Regnault
7.0
1937
The Secrets of the Red Sea
0.0
1937
Sarati the Terrible
Cesar Sarati
7.0
1937
Paris
0.0
1937
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
6.9
1937
Nitchevo
0.0
1936
Taras Bulba
Tarass Boulba
0.0
1936
Samson
Jacques Brachart
5.0
1936
The New Men
Bourron
6.0
1936
The Golem
L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème
4.8
1936
Moscow Nights
Peter Brioukow
5.2
1935
Dark Eyes
Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff
10.0
1935
Crime and Punishment
Porphyre
7.0
1935
Behold the Man
Hérode
7.3
1935
Moscow Nights
Piotr Brioukow
4.0
1934
A Man and His Woman
0.0
1934
Rothchild
Rothchild
6.0
1934
Les Misérables
Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
7.9
1934
A Man's Neck
Commissaire Jules Maigret
6.1
1933
Criminal
Warden Brady
0.0
1933
The Old Devil
Guillaume Vautier
5.2
1933
The Three Musketeers
M. de Tréville
6.0
1932
The Red Head
Mr. Lepic
6.7
1932
Moon over Morocco
M. de Marouvelle
5.7
1931
Polish Jew
Mathias
0.0
1931
The Lost Course
Le Capitaine Kell
0.0
1931
David Golder
David Golder
6.2
1931
The Clairvoyant
Monsieur Detaille
0.0
1924
The Gold Chignon
0.0
1916
Flower of Paris
Harry Podge
0.0
1916
Monsieur Lecoq
0.0
1914
L'Évasion de Vidocq
Vidocq
0.0
1910
La Jeunesse de Vidocq ou Comment on devient policier
Vidocq
0.0
1909
L'Assommoir
5.5
1908
Le Roman de Carpentier
0.0