Conrad Veidt

🎂 Data nașterii: 1893-01-22 (Berlin, Germany)

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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Conrad Veidt

Filme în care a jucat

Cabinetul doctorului Caligari

Casablanca

Der Janus-Kopf

Wenn Tote sprechen

Orlacs Hände

Sehnsucht

Hoțul din Bagdad

Above Suspicion

The Man Who Laughs

Wahnsinn

Der Student von Prag

Das Wachsfigurenkabinett

A Woman's Face

Unheimliche Geschichten

All Through the Night

The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute

Nazi Agent

Schicksal

Whistling in the Dark

Călătoria întunecată

The Spy in Black

Liebe macht blind

The Last Performance

Die Nacht der Entscheidung

Contraband

The Beloved Rogue

The Passing of the Third Floor Back

Escape

The Many Faces of Dracula

Under the Red Robe

Rome Express

The Wandering Jew

Jew Süss

Ingmarsarvet

Nju - Eine unverstandene Frau

Furcht

Das indische Grabmal, zweiter Teil: Der Tiger von Eschnapur

Das indische Grabmal, erster Teil: Die Sendung des Yoghi

Der Gang in die Nacht

Wilhelm Tell

I Was a Spy

Die Flucht in die Nacht

Ich und die Kaiserin

Le Joueur d'échecs

Anders als die Andern

Der Kongress tanzt

Der schwarze Husar

Lucrezia Borgia

Dürfen wir schweigen?

Kreuzzug des Weibes

Wilhelm Tell

Menschen im Rausch

Menschen im Käfig

Die Karten des Todes

F.P.1

Der Reigen - Ein Werdegang

King of the Damned

Der nicht vom Weibe Geborene

Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

Die Prostitution, 1. Teil - Das gelbe Haus

Die große Sehnsucht

Die Brüder Schellenberg

Rasputin, Dämon der Frauen

Landstraße und Großstadt

Die letzte Kompagnie

Der Mann, der den Mord beging

Nocturno der Liebe

Die Japanerin

Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod

Die Mexikanerin

Opfer der Gesellschaft

Tempête sur l'Asie

The Men in Her Life

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

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Napoléon

Lady Hamilton

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