Conrad Veidt
Acting
- Naissance:
- 1893-01-22
- Décès:
- 1943-04-03
- Lieu de naissance:
- Berlin, Germany
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
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
The Many Faces of Dracula
Universal Horror
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Above Suspicion
Casablanca
Nazi Agent
Echec à la Gestapo
The Men in Her Life
Whistling in the Dark
Il était une fois
Évasion
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Espionne à bord
Le Voleur de Bagdad
L'Espion noir
Le Joueur d'échecs
Tempête sur l'Asie
Le mystère de la section 8
Under the Red Robe
King of the Damned
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Bella Donna
Le Juif Süss
Wilhelm Tell
The Wandering Jew
J'étais une espionne
F.P.1
Moi et l'imprératrice
Rome Express
Der schwarze Husar
Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen
L'Autre Côté
Le congrès s'amuse
Die Nacht der Entscheidung
Der Mann, der den Mord beging
Menschen im Käfig
Die große Sehnsucht
Die letzte Kompagnie
The Last Performance
Das Land ohne Frauen
Die Filmstadt Hollywood
L'Homme qui rit
Gesetze der Liebe
A Man's Past
The Beloved Rogue
Napoléon
Die Flucht in die Nacht
L'étudiant de Prague
Liebe macht blind
Dürfen wir schweigen?
Die Brüder Schellenberg
Le violoniste de Florence
Kreuzzug des Weibes
Ingmarsarvet
Le Comte Kostia
Schicksal
Nju - Eine unverstandene Frau
Le Cabinet des figures de cire
Les mains d'Orlac
Der Film im Film
Don Carlos und Elisabeth
Wilhelm Tell
Paganini
Glanz gegen Glück
Lucrezia Borgia
Le Tombeau hindou, partie 2 : Le Tigre du Bengale
Le Tombeau hindou, partie 1 : La Mission du Yogi
Lady Hamilton
Danton
Landstraße und Großstadt
Christian Wahnschaffe, 2. Teil: Die Flucht aus dem goldenen Kerker
Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft
Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
Liebestaumel
Der Gang in die Nacht
Menschen im Rausch
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
Sehnsucht
Der Graf von Cagliostro
Weltbrand
Manolescus Memoiren
Abend – Nacht – Morgen
Moriturus
Der Janus-Kopf
Künstlerlaunen
Kurfürstendamm
Die Augen der Welt
Die Karten des Todes
Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
Le Cabinet du docteur Caligari
Der Reigen - Ein Werdegang
Nachtgestalten
Unheimliche Geschichten
Wahnsinn
Prinz Kuckuck
Die Prostitution, 2. Teil - Die sich verkaufen
Die Okarina
Anders als die Andern
Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod
Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen
Die Prostitution, 1. Teil - Das gelbe Haus
Die Japanerin
Opium
Nocturno der Liebe
Die Mexikanerin
Opfer der Gesellschaft
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
Dida Ibsens Geschichte
Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
Colomba
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
Journal d'une fille perdue
Der nicht vom Weibe Geborene
Das Dreimäderlhaus
Das Rätsel von Bangalor
Fear
Der Spion
Wenn Tote sprechen
Der Weg des Todes