Conrad Veidt
Known For: Acting
Gender: Male
Date of Birth: January 22, 1893
Day of Death: April 3, 1943 (50 years old)
Place of Birth: 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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Actor Ivan
Desire
Actor Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
Actor Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
Actor Der Maler
Journey into the Night
Actor Professor Munk
Menschen im Rausch
Actor Raphael, der Geiger
Landstraße und Großstadt
Actor Lord Nelson
Lady Hamilton
Actor Christian Wahnschaffe
Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
Actor
Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft
Actor Jalenko
Liebestaumel
Actor Tossi
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
Actor Hektor Dalmore
Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
1920
Actor Cesare
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Actor Dr. Warren
The Head of Janus
Actor Sir Percy Parker
Patience
Actor Petre Karvan
Der Reigen - Ein Werdegang
Actor The clown
Figures of the Night
Actor The devil
Kurfürstendamm
Actor Manolescu
Manolescu's Memoirs
Actor Christian Wahnschaffe
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Actor Minister
The Count of Cagliostro
Actor Wilmos, sanatorium director
Moriturus
Actor Brilburn - Maud's brother
Evening - Night - Morning
Actor
Künstlerlaunen
Actor Johannes Kay
Die Augen der Welt
Actor
Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
Director
Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
Producer
Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
1919
Actor Bankier Lorenzen
Wahnsinn
Actor Der Tod / Various Other Roles
Eerie Tales
Actor Paul Körner
Different from the Others
Actor Alfred Werner
Prostitution
Actor
Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod
Actor Frederic Chopin
Nocturno der Liebe
Actor
Die Japanerin
Actor Dr. von Dossen
Die Mexikanerin
Actor
Opfer der Gesellschaft
Actor Alfred Werner
Prostitution II
Actor Phineas Fogg
Around the World in 80 Days
Actor Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.
Opium
Actor Carl Kraker
Prinz Kuckuck
Actor
Die Okarina
Director
Wahnsinn
1918
Actor Satan
Not of the Woman Born
Actor Dr. Julius
Diary of a Lost Woman
Actor Erik Norrensen
The Story of Dida Ibsen
Actor Henryk von Rhyn
Colomba
Actor Doktor Köstling
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
Actor Doktor Köstling
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
Actor Schober
Das Dreimäderlhaus
Actor Kramer
Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
Actor Dinja
Das Rätsel von Bangalor
