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Conrad Veidt

Film Director / Film Producer / Actor | * 01/22/1893 († 50, 04/03/1943) | Potsdam, Brandenburg (Germany)
Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German-British actor. He attracted early attention for his roles in the films Different from the Others (1919), The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), and The Man Who Laughs (1928). After a successful career in German silent films, where he was one of the best-paid stars of UFA, Veidt and his new Jewish wife Ilona Prager left Germany in 1933 after the Nazis came to power. The couple settled in Britain, where he took citizenship in 1939. Veidt subsequently appeared in many British films, including The Thief of Bagdad (1940). After immigrating to the United States around 1941, he was cast as Major Strasser in Casablanca (1942), his last film role to be released during his lifetime. ()
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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.

Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Horror | Thriller

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Movies with Conrad Veidt as Actor(105)

as (archive footage)1998 Universal Horror
as Hassert Seidel1943 Above Suspicion
as Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner1942 Nazi Agent
as Major Heinrich Strasser1942 Casablanca
as Franz Ebbing1942 All Through the Night
as Torsten Barring1941 A Woman's Face
as Joseph Jones1941 Whistling in the Dark
as Stanislas Rosing1941 The Men in Her Life
as General Kurt von Kolb1940 Escape
as Jaffar1940 The Thief of Bagdad
as Capt. Andersen1940 Contraband
as Captain Ernst Hardt1939 The Spy in Black
as Le baron de Kempelen1938 The Chess Player
as Erich Keith1938 Tempête sur l'Asie
as Baron Karl Von Marwitz1937 Dark Journey
as Gil de Berault1937 Under the Red Robe
as Convict 831935 King of the Damned
as Mahmoud Baroudi1934 Bella Donna
as Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer1934 Jew Süss
as Gessler1934 Wilhelm Tell
as Maj. Ellissen1933 F.P.1
as Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios1933 The Wandering Jew
as Marquis de Pontignac1933 The Only Girl
as Commandant Oberaertz1933 I Was A Spy
as Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg1932 The Black Hussar
as Zurta1932 Rome Express
as Grigori Rasputin1932 Rasputin, Demon of the Women
as Fürst Metternich1931 The Congress Dances
as Prince Metternich1931 Congress Dances
as Hauptmann Stanhope1931 The Other Side
as Oberst Marquis de Sévigné1931 The Man Who Committed the Murder
as Kingsley1930 The Love Storm
as Hauptmann Burk1930 The Last Company
as himself1930 The Great Longing
as Erik the Great1929 The Last Performance
as Gwynplaine1928 The Man Who Laughs
as King Louis XI1927 The Beloved Rogue
as Paul La Roche1927 A Man's Past
as Paul Hartwig, Maler1926 Should We Be Silent?
as Balduin, Student1926 The Student of Prague
as Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV1926 The Flight in the Night
as Renées Vater1926 Impetuous Youth
as Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg1926 Two Brothers
as Der Staatsanwalt1926 The Wife's Crusade
as Comte Kostia1925 Le comte Kostia
as Hellgum1925 The Ingmar Inheritance
as Ivan the Terrible1924 Waxworks
as himself1924 The Film in the Film
as Don Carlos1924 Don Carlos und Elisabeth
as Paul Orlac1924 The Hands of Orlac
as Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter1924 Husbands or Lovers
as Niccolo Paganini1923 Paganini
as Hermann Gessler1923 Wilhelm Tell
as Cesare Borgia1922 Lucrezia Borgia
as Ivan1921 Desire
as Der Maler1921 Journey Into the Night
as Lord Nelson1921 Lady Hamilton
as Jalenko1921 Liebestaumel
as Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur1921 The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yogi
as Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur1921 The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Bengal
as Minister1920 Der Graf von Cagliostro
as Manolescu1920 Manolescu's Memoirs
as Wilmos, sanatorium director1920 Moriturus
as Dr. Warren1920 The Head of Janus
as The devil1920 Kurfürstendamm
as Christian Wahnschaffe1920 Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Brilburn - Maud's brother1920 Evening - Night - Morning
as Petre Karvan1920 The Merry-Go-Round
as The clown1920 Nachtgestalten
as Bankier Lorenzen1919 Wahnsinn
as Alfred Werner1919 Prostitution
as Paul Körner1919 Different from the Others
as Carl Kraker1919 Prinz Kuckuck
as Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.1919 Opium
as Alfred Werner1919 Prostitution II
as Phineas Fogg1919 Around the World in 80 Days
as Der Tod / Various Other Roles1919 Eerie Tales
1918 Colomba
as Erik Norrensen1918 The Story of Dida Ibsen
as Indian Priest1917 Fear
as Steinau1917 Der Spion

Movies with Conrad Veidt as Crew(1)

Directing/Director1919 Wahnsinn

Full Name: Conrad Veidt
Citizenship: United Kingdom (UK)
Born: Sunday, 01/22 1893 (January) in Potsdam, Brandenburg (Germany)
Died: Saturday, 04/03 1943 (April) in Hollywood (aged: 50)
Zodiac sign: Aquarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Snake)
Languages: German (DE), English (EN)
Spouses (current/former): Gussy Holl
Other names for Conrad Veidt (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Veidt"
"Hans Walter Conrad Veidt"
Conrad Veidt frequently works together with these people:
Richard Oswald (46x, Crew)
Reinhold Schünzel (13x, Actor)
Werner Krauß (13x, Actor)
Theodor Loos (10x, Actor)
Carl Hoffmann (10x, Crew)
Paul Leni (9x, Crew)
Anita Berber (9x, Actress)
Erna Morena (9x, Actress)
Erich Pommer (9x, Crew)
Robert Liebmann (8x, Crew)
Lil Dagover (8x, Actress)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:81614, Added: 05/26/2018, Last updated: 03/27/2024