Conrad Veidt
114 movies
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Jan 22, 1893
- Died
- Apr 3, 1943 (age 50)
- Place of birth
- Berlin, Germany
- Also known as
- Hans Walter Conrad Veidt
Biography
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.
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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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Known for
Conrad Veidt: movies and TV shows
Acting (114)
- 2008 Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
as Jaffar (archival footage)
- 1998 Universal Horror
as (archive footage)
- 1943 Above Suspicion
as Hassert Seidel
- 1943 Casablanca
as Major Heinrich Strasser
- 1942 Nazi Agent
as Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
- 1942 All Through the Night
as Franz Ebbing
- 1941 The Men in Her Life
as Stanislas Rosing
- 1941 Whistling in the Dark
as Joseph Jones
- 1941 A Woman's Face
as Torsten Barring
- 1940 Escape
as General Kurt von Kolb
- 1940 Contraband
as Capt. Andersen
- 1940 The Thief of Bagdad
as Jaffar
- 1939 The Spy in Black
as Captain Ernst Hardt
- 1938 The Chess Player
as Le baron de Kempelen
- 1938 Tempête sur l'Asie
as Erich Keith
- 1937 Dark Journey
as Baron Karl Von Marwitz
- 1937 Under the Red Robe
as Gil de Berault
- 1935 King of the Damned
as Convict 83
- 1935 The Passing of the Third Floor Back
as The Stranger
- 1934 Bella Donna
as Mahmoud Baroudi
- 1934 Jew Süss
as Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer
- 1934 William Tell
as Gessler
- 1933 The Wandering Jew
as Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios
- 1933 I Was a Spy
as Commandant Oberaertz
- 1933 F.P.1
as Maj. Ellissen
- 1933 The Only Girl
as Marquis de Pontignac
- 1932 Rome Express
as Zurta
- 1932 The Black Hussar
as Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg
- 1932 Rasputin, Demon of the Women
as Grigori Rasputin
- 1931 The Other Side
as Hauptmann Stanhope
- 1931 Congress Dances
as Fürst Metternich
- 1931 The Night of the Decision
as General Gregori Platoff
- 1931 The Man Who Committed the Murder
as Oberst Marquis de Sévigné
- 1930 The Love Storm
as Kingsley
- 1930 The Last Company
as Hauptmann Burk
- 1929 The Last Performance
as Erik the Great
- 1929 Das Land ohne Frauen
as Dick Ashton
- 1928 The Man Who Laughs
as Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie
- 1927
- 1927 A Man's Past
as Paul La Roche
- 1927 The Beloved Rogue
as King Louis XI
- 1927 Napoleon
as Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
- 1926 The Flight in the Night
as Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV
- 1926 The Student of Prague
as Balduin, Student
- 1926
- 1926 Should We Be Silent?
as Paul Hartwig, Maler
- 1926 Two Brothers
as Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg
- 1926 Impetuous Youth
as Renées Vater
- 1926 The Wife's Crusade
as Der Staatsanwalt
- 1925 The Ingmar Inheritance
as Hellgum
- 1925 Le Comte Kostia
as Comte Kostia
- 1925
- 1924 Husbands or Lovers
as Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter
- 1924 Waxworks
as Ivan the Terrible
- 1924 The Hands of Orlac
as Paul Orlac
- 1924 Don Carlos und Elisabeth
as Don Carlos
- 1923 William Tell
as Hermann Gessler
- 1923 Paganini
as Niccolo Paganini
- 1923
- 1922 Lucrezia Borgia
as Cesare Borgia
- 1921 The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
as Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
- 1921 The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
as Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
- 1921 Lady Hamilton
as Lord Nelson
- 1921 Danton
as Minor Role (rumored)
- 1921 Landstraße und Großstadt
as Raphael, der Geiger
- 1921 Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
as Christian Wahnschaffe
- 1921
- 1921 Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
as Hektor Dalmore
- 1921 Liebestaumel
as Jalenko
- 1921 Journey into the Night
as Der Maler
- 1921 People in Ecstasy
as Professor Munk
- 1921 Das Geheimnis von Bombay
as Tossi
- 1921 Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
as Ivan
- 1920 The Count of Cagliostro
as Minister
- 1920 Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Christian Wahnschaffe
- 1920 Manolescu's Memoirs
as Manolescu
- 1920 Evening – Night – Morning
as Brilburn - Maud's brother
- 1920 Moriturus
as Wilmos, sanatorium director
- 1920 The Head of Janus
as Dr. Warren
- 1920
- 1920 Kurfürstendamm
as The devil
- 1920 The Eyes of the World
as Johannes Kay
- 1920 Patience
as Sir Percy Parker
- 1920
- 1920 The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
as Cesare
- 1920 The Merry-Go-Round
as Petre Karvan
- 1920 Figures of the Night
as The clown
- 1919 Eerie Tales
as Der Tod / Various Other Roles
- 1919 Wahnsinn
as Bankier Lorenzen
- 1919 Prinz Kuckuck
as Carl Kraker
- 1919 Prostitution II
as Alfred Werner
- 1919
- 1919 Different from the Others
as Paul Körner
- 1919
- 1919 Around the World in 80 Days
as Phineas Fogg
- 1919 Prostitution
as Alfred Werner
- 1919
- 1919 Opium
as Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.
- 1919 Nocturno der Liebe
as Frederic Chopin
- 1919 The Mexican
as Dr. von Dossen
- 1919
- 1918 Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
as Doktor Köstling
- 1918 The Story of Dida Ibsen
as Erik Norrensen
- 1918 Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
as Kramer
- 1918 Colomba
as Henryk von Rhyn
- 1918 Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
as Doktor Köstling
- 1918 Diary of a Lost Woman
as Dr. Julius
- 1918 Not of the Woman Born
as Satan
- 1918 Das Dreimäderlhaus
as Schober
- 1918 The Mystery of Bangalore
as Dinja
- 1917 Fear
as Indian Priest
- 1917 Der Spion
as Steinau
- 1917 Wenn Tote sprechen
as Richard von Worth
- 1917
Behind the camera (2)
- 1920 Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
Director, Producer
- 1919 Wahnsinn
Director
Talk shows and appearances (7)
- 2011
- 2000
- 1974
- 1940
- 1930
- 1928
- 1924