Conrad Veidt
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- January 22, 1893
- Died
- April 3, 1943 (aged 50)
- Birthplace
- Berlin, Germany
Biography
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
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Filmography
Vito
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
Movie · as Jaffar (archival footage)
The Many Faces of Dracula
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Universal Horror
Movie · as (archive footage)
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
Movie · as Self (archive footage)
Los ojos del siglo (Volumen I)
Movie · as Él mismo (material de archivo)
Casablanca
Movie · as Major Heinrich Strasser
Above Suspicion
Movie · as Hassert Seidel
All Through the Night
Movie · as Franz Ebbing
Nazi Agent
Movie · as Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
A Woman's Face
Movie · as Torsten Barring
Whistling in the Dark
Movie · as Joseph Jones
The Men in Her Life
Movie · as Stanislas Rosing
The Thief of Bagdad
Movie · as Jaffar
Contraband
Movie · as Capt. Andersen
Escape
Movie · as General Kurt von Kolb
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Movie · as Self
The Spy in Black
Movie · as Captain Ernst Hardt
The Chess Player
Movie · as Le baron de Kempelen
Tempête sur l'Asie
Movie · as Erich Keith
Dark Journey
Movie · as Baron Karl Von Marwitz
Under the Red Robe
Movie · as Gil de Berault
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
Movie · as The Stranger
King of the Damned
Movie · as Convict 83
Jew Süss
Movie · as Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer
William Tell
Movie · as Gessler
Bella Donna
Movie · as Mahmoud Baroudi
The Wandering Jew
Movie · as Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios
I Was a Spy
Movie · as Commandant Oberaertz
The Only Girl
Movie · as Marquis de Pontignac
F.P.1
Movie · as Maj. Ellissen
Rome Express
Movie · as Zurta
The Black Hussar
Movie · as Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg
Rasputin, Demon of the Women
Movie · as Grigori Rasputin
The Night of the Decision
Movie · as General Gregori Platoff
Congress Dances
Movie · as Fürst Metternich
The Man Who Committed the Murder
Movie · as Oberst Marquis de Sévigné
The Other Side
Movie · as Hauptmann Stanhope
The Love Storm
Movie · as Kingsley
The Great Desire
Movie · as Himself
The Last Company
Movie · as Hauptmann Burk
The Last Performance
Movie · as Erik the Great
Das Land ohne Frauen
Movie · as Dick Ashton
The Man Who Laughs
Movie · as Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie
The Movie City of Hollywood
Movie · as Self
The Beloved Rogue
Movie · as King Louis XI
Napoleon
Movie · as Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
A Man's Past
Movie · as Paul La Roche
Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
Movie
The Student of Prague
Movie · as Balduin, Student
Love Is Blind
Movie
The Flight in the Night
Movie · as Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV
Should We Be Silent?
Movie · as Paul Hartwig, Maler
The Wife's Crusade
Movie · as Der Staatsanwalt
Two Brothers
Movie · as Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg
Impetuous Youth
Movie · as Renées Vater
Schicksal
Movie
The Ingmar Inheritance
Movie · as Hellgum
Le Comte Kostia
Movie · as Comte Kostia
The Hands of Orlac
Movie · as Paul Orlac
Waxworks
Movie · as Ivan the Terrible
Husbands or Lovers
Movie · as Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter
Don Carlos und Elisabeth
Movie · as Don Carlos
The Film in the Film
Movie · as Self
William Tell
Movie · as Hermann Gessler
Paganini
Movie · as Niccolo Paganini
Glanz gegen Glück
Movie
Lucrezia Borgia
Movie · as Cesare Borgia
Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
Movie · as Ivan
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
Movie · as Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
Movie · as Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
Journey into the Night
Movie · as Der Maler
People in Ecstasy
Movie · as Professor Munk
Landstraße und Großstadt
Movie · as Raphael, der Geiger
Lady Hamilton
Movie · as Lord Nelson
Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
Movie · as Christian Wahnschaffe
Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft
Movie
Liebestaumel
Movie · as Jalenko
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
Movie · as Tossi
Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
Movie · as Hektor Dalmore
Danton
Movie · as Minor Role (rumored)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Movie · as Cesare
The Head of Janus
Movie · as Dr. Warren
Patience
Movie · as Sir Percy Parker
The Merry-Go-Round
Movie · as Petre Karvan
Figures of the Night
Movie · as The clown
Kurfürstendamm
Movie · as The devil
Manolescu's Memoirs
Movie · as Manolescu
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Movie · as Christian Wahnschaffe
The Count of Cagliostro
Movie · as Minister
Moriturus
Movie · as Wilmos, sanatorium director
Evening – Night – Morning
Movie · as Brilburn - Maud's brother
Künstlerlaunen
Movie
The Eyes of the World
Movie · as Johannes Kay
Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
Movie
Wahnsinn
Movie · as Bankier Lorenzen
Eerie Tales
Movie · as Der Tod / Various Other Roles
Different from the Others
Movie · as Paul Körner
Prostitution
Movie · as Alfred Werner
Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod
Movie
Nocturno der Liebe
Movie · as Frederic Chopin
The Japanese Woman
Movie
The Mexican
Movie · as Dr. von Dossen
Opfer der Gesellschaft
Movie
Prostitution II
Movie · as Alfred Werner
Around the World in 80 Days
Movie · as Phineas Fogg
Opium
Movie · as Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.
Prinz Kuckuck
Movie · as Carl Kraker
The Ocarina
Movie
Not of the Woman Born
Movie · as Satan
Diary of a Lost Woman
Movie · as Dr. Julius
The Story of Dida Ibsen
Movie · as Erik Norrensen
Colomba
Movie · as Henryk von Rhyn
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
Movie · as Doktor Köstling
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
Movie · as Doktor Köstling
Das Dreimäderlhaus
Movie · as Schober
Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
Movie · as Kramer
The Mystery of Bangalore
Movie · as Dinja
Wenn Tote sprechen
Movie · as Richard von Worth
Fear
Movie · as Indian Priest
Der Spion
Movie · as Steinau
Der Weg des Todes
Movie