From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Conrad Veidt licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movie | Universal Horror | (archive footage) | 1998-10-08 |
Movie | The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute | Self (archive footage) | 1974-02-20 |
Movie | Casablanca | Major Heinrich Strasser | 1943-01-15 |
Movie | Above Suspicion | Hassert Seidel | 1943-05-31 |
Movie | All Through the Night | Franz Ebbing | 1942-01-10 |
Movie | Nazi Agent | Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner | 1942-03-01 |
Movie | A Woman's Face | Torsten Barring | 1941-05-09 |
Movie | Whistling in the Dark | Joseph Jones | 1941-08-08 |
Movie | The Men in Her Life | Stanislas Rosing | 1941-10-30 |
Movie | Contraband | Capt. Andersen | 1940-05-11 |
Movie | A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound | Self | 1940-10-24 |
Movie | Escape | General Kurt von Kolb | 1940-11-01 |
Movie | The Thief of Bagdad | Jaffar | 1940-12-25 |
Movie | The Spy in Black | Captain Ernst Hardt | 1939-08-03 |
Movie | Tempête sur l'Asie | Erich Keith | 1938-04-20 |
Movie | The Chess Player | Le baron de Kempelen | 1938-11-25 |
Movie | Under the Red Robe | Gil de Berault | 1937-05-31 |
Movie | Dark Journey | Baron Karl Von Marwitz | 1937-07-02 |
Movie | King of the Damned | Convict 83 | 1935-12-31 |
Movie | The Passing of the Third Floor Back | The Stranger | 1935-09-01 |
Movie | Wilhelm Tell | Gessler | 1934-01-12 |
Movie | Jew Süss | Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer | 1934-10-13 |
Movie | Bella Donna | Mahmoud Baroudi | 1934-12-11 |
Movie | F.P.1 | Maj. Ellissen | 1933-04-02 |
Movie | The Only Girl | Marquis de Pontignac | 1933-02-22 |
Movie | I Was A Spy | Commandant Oberaertz | 1933-09-04 |
Movie | The Wandering Jew | Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios | 1933-11-15 |
Movie | Rasputin, Demon of the Women | Grigori Rasputin | 1932-02-19 |
Movie | Rome Express | Zurta | 1932-10-31 |
Movie | The Black Hussar | Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg | 1932-10-12 |
Movie | The Congress Dances | Fürst Metternich | 1931-09-29 |
Movie | The Man Who Committed the Murder | Oberst Marquis de Sévigné | 1931-01-23 |
Movie | The Other Side | Hauptmann Stanhope | 1931-10-29 |
Movie | The Last Company | Hauptmann Burk | 1930-03-14 |
Movie | The Great Longing | Himself | 1930-08-24 |
Movie | The Love Storm | Kingsley | 1930-11-21 |
Movie | The Last Performance | Erik the Great | 1929-10-13 |
Movie | The Man Who Laughs | Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie | 1928-04-27 |
Movie | The Movie City of Hollywood | Self | 1928-11-18 |
Movie | A Man's Past | Paul La Roche | 1927-10-01 |
Movie | The Beloved Rogue | King Louis XI | 1927-03-12 |
Movie | Impetuous Youth | Renées Vater | 1926-03-10 |
Movie | The Wife's Crusade | Der Staatsanwalt | 1926-01-02 |
Movie | Should We Be Silent? | Paul Hartwig, Maler | 1926-04-05 |
Movie | The Student of Prague | Balduin, Student | 1926-10-19 |
Movie | Two Brothers | Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg | 1926-03-22 |
Movie | The Ingmar Inheritance | Hellgum | 1925-12-26 |
Movie | The Film in the Film | Himself | 1924-06-26 |
Movie | The Hands of Orlac | Paul Orlac | 1924-09-24 |
Movie | Don Carlos und Elisabeth | Don Carlos | 1924-02-24 |
Movie | Waxworks | Ivan the Terrible | 1924-11-13 |
Movie | Husbands or Lovers | Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter | 1924-11-21 |
Movie | Paganini | Niccolo Paganini | 1923-03-31 |
Movie | Wilhelm Tell | Hermann Gessler | 1923-08-22 |
Movie | Lucrezia Borgia | Cesare Borgia | 1922-10-20 |
Movie | Desire | Ivan | 1921-02-01 |
Movie | Journey into the Night | Der Maler | 1921-01-21 |
Movie | Menschen im Rausch | 1921-01-06 | |
Movie | Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore | Hektor Dalmore | 1921-02-22 |
Movie | The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Bengal | Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur | 1921-11-19 |
Movie | Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon | Christian Wahnschaffe | 1921-03-30 |
Movie | The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yogi | Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur | 1921-10-22 |
Movie | Lady Hamilton | Lord Nelson | 1921-10-19 |
Movie | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Cesare | 1920-02-27 |
Movie | Der Reigen - Ein Werdegang | Petre Karvan | 1920-02-27 |
Movie | Figures of the Night | The clown | 1920-01-09 |
Movie | Patience | Sir Percy Parker | 1920-04-16 |
Movie | Manolescu's Memoirs | Manolescu | 1920-09-30 |
Movie | Kurfürstendamm | The devil | 1920-07-29 |
Movie | Moriturus | Wilmos, sanatorium director | 1920-09-23 |
Movie | Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand | Christian Wahnschaffe | 1920-11-12 |
Movie | The Head of Janus | Dr. Warren | 1920-08-26 |
Movie | Prostitution | Alfred Werner | 1919-03-19 |
Movie | Opium | Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr. | 1919-01-07 |
Movie | Different from the Others | Paul Körner | 1919-05-28 |
Movie | Around the World in 80 Days | Phineas Fogg | 1919-03-20 |
Movie | Prostitution II | Alfred Werner | 1919-08-29 |
Movie | Eerie Tales | Der Tod / Various Other Roles | 1919-11-05 |
Movie | Wahnsinn | Bankier Lorenzen | 1919-10-14 |
Movie | Das Rätsel von Bangalor | Dinja | 1918-01-11 |
Movie | Das Dreimäderlhaus | 1918-09-22 | |
Movie | Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert | 1918-11-08 | |
Movie | Not of the Woman Born | Satan | 1918-10-01 |
Movie | Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby | 1918-12-13 | |
Movie | Fear | Indian Priest | 1917-03-06 |
Movie | Der Spion | Steinau | 1917-08-31 |