Conrad Veidt actor
- Total known movies 122
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 Wienes 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 Hirschfelds 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 Germanys 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.
Cesare
Movie 1920
Major Heinrich Strasser
Movie 1943
Dr. Warren
Movie 1920
Richard von Worth
Movie 1917
Paul Orlac
Movie 1924
Ivan
Movie 1921
Jaffar
Movie 1940
Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie
Movie 1928
Bankier Lorenzen
Movie 1919
Balduin, Student
Movie 1926
Ivan the Terrible
Movie 1924
Torsten Barring
Movie 1941
Der Tod / Various Other Roles
Movie 1919
Self (archive footage)
Movie 1974
Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
Movie 1942
Movie 1925
Joseph Jones
Movie 1941
Captain Ernst Hardt
Movie 1939
Movie 1926
Erik the Great
Movie 1929
Movie 1931
Capt. Andersen
Movie 1940
King Louis XI
Movie 1927
The Stranger
Movie 1935
General Kurt von Kolb
Movie 1940
Self (archive footage)
Movie 2000
Gil de Berault
Movie 1937
Zurta
Movie 1932
Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios
Movie 1933
Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer
Movie 1934
Hellgum
Movie 1925
Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter
Movie 1924
Indian Priest
Movie 1917
Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
Movie 1921
Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
Movie 1921
Der Maler
Movie 1921
Hermann Gessler
Movie 1923
Commandant Oberaertz
Movie 1933
Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV
Movie 1926
Marquis de Pontignac
Movie 1933
Le baron de Kempelen
Movie 1938
Paul Körner
Movie 1919
Fürst Metternich
Movie 1931
Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg
Movie 1932
Cesare Borgia
Movie 1922
Paul Hartwig, Maler
Movie 1926
Der Staatsanwalt
Movie 1926
Gessler
Movie 1934
Professor Munk
Movie 1921
Kingsley
Movie 1930
Sir Percy Parker
Movie 1920
Maj. Ellissen
Movie 1933
Petre Karvan
Movie 1920
Convict 83
Movie 1935
Satan
Movie 1918
Jaffar (archival footage)
Movie 2008
Prince Metternich
Movie 1931
Alfred Werner
Movie 1919
Himself
Movie 1930
Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg
Movie 1926
Grigori Rasputin
Movie 1932
Raphael, der Geiger
Movie 1921
Hauptmann Burk
Movie 1930
Oberst Marquis de Sévigné
Movie 1931
Movie 1919
Frederic Chopin
Movie 1919
Movie 1919
Dr. von Dossen
Movie 1919
Movie 1919
Erich Keith
Movie 1938
Stanislas Rosing
Movie 1941
Self
Movie 1940
Hauptmann Stanhope
Movie 1931
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
Movie 1927
Lord Nelson
Movie 1921
The clown
Movie 1920
Steinau
Movie 1917
The devil
Movie 1920
Renées Vater
Movie 1926
Alfred Werner
Movie 1919
Phineas Fogg
Movie 1919
Mahmoud Baroudi
Movie 1934
Manolescu
Movie 1920
Christian Wahnschaffe
Movie 1920
Christian Wahnschaffe
Movie 1921
Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.
Movie 1919
Don Carlos
Movie 1924
Niccolo Paganini
Movie 1923
Paul La Roche
Movie 1927
Himself
Movie 1924
Dr. Julius
Movie 1918
Erik Norrensen
Movie 1918
Movie 1921
Henryk von Rhyn
Movie 1918
Jalenko
Movie 1921
Minister
Movie 1920
Carl Kraker
Movie 1919
Tossi
Movie 1921
Wilmos, sanatorium director
Movie 1920
Dick Ashton
Movie 1929
Comte Kostia
Movie 1925
Movie 1927
Hektor Dalmore
Movie 1921
Movie 1917
Doktor Köstling
Movie 1918
Doktor Köstling
Movie 1918
Brilburn - Maud's brother
Movie 1920
Schober
Movie 1918
Kramer
Movie 1918
Dinja
Movie 1918
Self
Movie 1928
(archive footage)
Movie 1998
Movie 1919
Movie 1923
Movie 1920
Johannes Kay
Movie 1920
Movie 1920
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
Movie 2024
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
Movie 2024
