Harry Baur

Harry Baur (12 April 1880 – 8 April 1943) was a French actor. Initially a stage actor, Baur appeared in about 80 films between 1909 and 1942. He gave an acclaimed performance as the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in the biopic Beethoven's Great Love (Un grand amour de Beethoven, 1936), directed by Abel Gance, and as Jean Valjean in Raymond Bernard's version of Les Misérables (1934). He also acted in Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset's silent film, Beethoven (1909), and in La voyante (1923), Sarah Bernhardt's last film. In 1942, while in Berlin, to star in his last film Symphone eines Lebens, Baur's wife was arrested by the Gestapo and charged with espionage. His effort to secure her release led to his own arrest and torture. He was being falsely labelled as a Jew but confirmed freemason. He was released in April 1943, but died in Paris shortly after in mysterious circumstances. Academy Award-winning American actor Rod Steiger cited Baur as one of his favorite actors who had exerted a major influence on his craft and career.

Known For: Acting

Born: Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France, 1880-04-12

Died: 1943-04-08

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1908	L'Assommoir		56
2	1909	La Jeunesse de Vidocq ou Comment on devient policier	Vidocq	0
3	1910	L'Évasion de Vidocq	Vidocq	0
4	1914	Monsieur Lecoq		0
5	1916	Flower of Paris	Harry Podge	0
6	1916	The Gold Chignon		0
7	1924	The Clairvoyant	Monsieur Detaille	0
8	1931	David Golder	David Golder	62
9	1931	The Lost Course	Le Capitaine Kell	0
10	1931	Polish Jew	Mathias	0
11	1931	Moon over Morocco	M. de Marouvelle	57
12	1932	The Red Head	Mr. Lepic	67
13	1932	The Three Musketeers	M. de Tréville	60
14	1933	The Old Devil	Guillaume Vautier	52
15	1933	Criminal	Warden Brady	0
16	1933	A Man's Neck	Commissaire Jules Maigret	61
17	1934	Les Misérables	Jean Valjean / Champmathieu	79
18	1934	Rothchild	Rothchild	60
19	1934	A Man and His Woman		0
20	1934	Moscow Nights	Piotr Brioukow	40
21	1934	Moscow Nights	Peter Brioukow	52
22	1935	Behold the Man	Hérode	73
23	1935	Crime and Punishment	Porphyre	68
24	1935	Dark Eyes	Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff	100
25	1936	The Golem	L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème	48
26	1936	Samson	Jacques Brachart	50
27	1936	The New Men	Bourron	60
28	1936	Taras Bulba	Tarass Boulba	0
29	1936	Nitchevo		0
30	1937	Paris		0
31	1937	The Life and Loves of Beethoven	Ludwig van Beethoven	69
32	1937	Sarati the Terrible	Cesar Sarati	68
33	1937	The Secrets of the Red Sea		0
34	1937	Life Dances On	Alain Regnault	70
35	1938	Hatred	le capitaine Mollenard	74
36	1938	Rasputin	Rasputin	50
37	1938	The Rebel Son	Taras Bulba	0
38	1938	The Postmaster's Daughter	Virine, le maitre de poste	0
39	1938	Le Patriote	Tsar Paul 1st	0
40	1940	President Haudecoeur	President Haudecoeur	60
41	1940	African Diary	Docteur Bourdet	58
42	1941	Volpone	Volpone	67
43	1941	Who Killed Santa Claus?	Gaspard Cornusse	66
44	1941	Sins of Youth	Monsieur Lacalade	55
45	1943	Symphonie eines Lebens	Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor	0
46	1957	Stars Never Die	Self (archive footage)	0
47		Le Roman de Carpentier		0

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1908