Conrad Veidt

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Berlin, Germany, 1893-01-22

Died: 1943-04-03

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1917	Der Weg des Todes		0
2	1917	Wenn Tote sprechen	Richard von Worth	0
3	1917	Der Spion	Steinau	0
4	1917	Fear	Indian Priest	54
5	1918	Das Rätsel von Bangalor	Dinja	0
6	1918	Das Dreimäderlhaus	Schober	0
7	1918	Not of the Woman Born	Satan	0
8	1918	Diary of a Lost Woman	Dr. Julius	0
9	1918	Colomba	Henryk von Rhyn	0
10	1918	Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert	Doktor Köstling	0
11	1918	Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter	Kramer	0
12	1918	The Story of Dida Ibsen	Erik Norrensen	0
13	1918	Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby	Doktor Köstling	0
14	1919	Nocturno der Liebe	Frederic Chopin	0
15	1919	Die Mexikanerin	Dr. von Dossen	0
16	1919	Opfer der Gesellschaft		0
17	1919	Opium	Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.	62
18	1919	Die Japanerin		0
19	1919	Prostitution	Alfred Werner	0
20	1919	Around the World in 80 Days	Phineas Fogg	55
21	1919	Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod		0
22	1919	Different from the Others	Paul Körner	70
23	1919	Die Okarina		0
24	1919	Prostitution II	Alfred Werner	0
25	1919	Prinz Kuckuck	Carl Kraker	0
26	1919	Wahnsinn	Bankier Lorenzen	0
27	1919	Eerie Tales	Der Tod / Various Other Roles	55
28	1920	Figures of the Night	The clown	0
29	1920	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari	Cesare	79
30	1920	The Merry-Go-Round	Petre Karvan	50
31	1920	Patience	Sir Percy Parker	0
32	1920	Die Nacht auf Goldenhall		0
33	1920	Die Augen der Welt	Johannes Kay	0
34	1920	Kurfürstendamm	The devil	0
35	1920	Künstlerlaunen		0
36	1920	The Head of Janus	Dr. Warren	0
37	1920	Moriturus	Wilmos, sanatorium director	0
38	1920	Evening – Night – Morning	Brilburn - Maud's brother	0
39	1920	Manolescu's Memoirs	Manolescu	0
40	1920	Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand	Christian Wahnschaffe	0
41	1920	The Count of Cagliostro	Minister	0
42	1921	Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer	Ivan	0
43	1921	Menschen im Rausch	Professor Munk	0
44	1921	Das Geheimnis von Bombay	Tossi	0
45	1921	Journey into the Night	Der Maler	59
46	1921	Liebestaumel	Jalenko	40
47	1921	Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore	Hektor Dalmore	60
48	1921	Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft		0
49	1921	Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon	Christian Wahnschaffe	0
50	1921	Landstraße und Großstadt	Raphael, der Geiger	0
51	1921	Lady Hamilton	Lord Nelson	58
52	1921	The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi	Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur	56
53	1921	The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur	Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur	60
54	1922	Lucrezia Borgia	Cesare Borgia	44
55	1923	Glanz gegen Glück		0
56	1923	Paganini	Niccolo Paganini	0
57	1923	Wilhelm Tell	Hermann Gessler	52
58	1924	Don Carlos und Elisabeth	Don Carlos	60
59	1924	The Film in the Film	Self	75
60	1924	The Hands of Orlac	Paul Orlac	68
61	1924	Waxworks	Ivan the Terrible	64
62	1924	Husbands or Lovers	Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter	53
63	1925	Schicksal		0
64	1925	Le Comte Kostia	Comte Kostia	0
65	1925	The Ingmar Inheritance	Hellgum	72
66	1926	The Wife's Crusade	Der Staatsanwalt	0
67	1926	Impetuous Youth	Renées Vater	67
68	1926	Two Brothers	Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg	47
69	1926	Should We Be Silent?	Paul Hartwig, Maler	50
70	1926	Liebe macht blind		0
71	1926	The Student of Prague	Balduin, Student	65
72	1926	The Flight in the Night	Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV	0
73	1927	Napoleon	Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade	78
74	1927	The Beloved Rogue	King Louis XI	65
75	1927	A Man's Past	Paul La Roche	60
76	1927	Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!		54
77	1928	The Man Who Laughs	Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie	73
78	1928	The Movie City of Hollywood	Self	60
79	1929	Das Land ohne Frauen	Dick Ashton	0
80	1929	The Last Performance	Erik the Great	62
81	1930	The Last Company	Hauptmann Burk	60
82	1930	The Great Passion	Himself	65
83	1930	The Love Storm	Kingsley	0
84	1931	The Man Who Committed the Murder	Oberst Marquis de Sévigné	52
85	1931	The Night of the Decision		0
86	1931	The Congress Dances	Fürst Metternich	72
87	1931	The Other Side	Hauptmann Stanhope	70
88	1931	Congress Dances	Prince Metternich	0
89	1932	Rasputin, Demon of the Women	Grigori Rasputin	75
90	1932	The Black Hussar	Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg	65
91	1932	Rome Express	Zurta	62
92	1933	The Only Girl	Marquis de Pontignac	60
93	1933	F.P.1	Maj. Ellissen	64
94	1933	I Was a Spy	Commandant Oberaertz	55
95	1933	The Wandering Jew	Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios	76
96	1934	Wilhelm Tell	Gessler	50
97	1934	Jew Süss	Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer	50
98	1934	Bella Donna	Mahmoud Baroudi	35
99	1935	The Passing of the Third Floor Back	The Stranger	76
100	1935	King of the Damned	Convict 83	60
101	1937	Under the Red Robe	Gil de Berault	60
102	1937	Dark Journey	Baron Karl Von Marwitz	64
103	1938	Tempête sur l'Asie	Erich Keith	0
104	1938	The Chess Player	Le baron de Kempelen	47
105	1939	The Spy in Black	Captain Ernst Hardt	64
106	1940	The Thief of Bagdad	Jaffar	71
107	1940	Contraband	Capt. Andersen	69
108	1940	A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound	Self	67
109	1940	Escape	General Kurt von Kolb	74
110	1941	A Woman's Face	Torsten Barring	69
111	1941	Whistling in the Dark	Joseph Jones	58
112	1941	The Men in Her Life	Stanislas Rosing	62
113	1942	All Through the Night	Franz Ebbing	70
114	1942	Nazi Agent	Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner	66
115	1943	Casablanca	Major Heinrich Strasser	82
116	1943	Above Suspicion	Hassert Seidel	65
117	1974	The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute	Self (archive footage)	77
118	1998	Universal Horror	(archive footage)	71
119	2000	The Many Faces of Dracula	Self (archive footage)	35
120	2008	Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad	Jaffar (archival footage)	70

Conrad Veidt

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