Conrad Veidt
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- CrimeThe Hands of Orlac
- ThrillerThe Spy in Black
- FantasyThe Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- ActionAll Through the Night
- AdventureDark Journey
- AdventureThe Beloved Rogue
- DramaAbove Suspicion
- DramaA Woman's Face
- DramaCasablanca
- DramaThe Man Who Laughs
- CrimeContraband
- ThrillerRome Express
- CrimeDifferent from the Others
- AdventureUnder the Red Robe
- DramaThe Last Performance
- HorrorThe Head of Janus
- CrimeNazi Agent
- DramaThe Student of Prague
- CrimeChristian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
- DramaThe Wandering Jew
- DramaChristian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
- DramaManolescu's Memoirs
- FantasyF.P.1
- MusicPaganini
- ComedyThe Passing of the Third Floor Back
- ComedyThe Black Hussar
- DramaThe Love Storm
- DramaJew Süss
- HorrorWahnsinn
- HorrorWahnsinn
- DramaDie Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
- DramaDon Carlos und Elisabeth
- AdventureAround the World in 80 Days
- DramaProstitution II
- DramaNot of the Woman Born
- DramaDesire
- movieThe Night of the Decision
- moviePrinz Kuckuck
- FantasyWaxworks
- DramaThe Man Who Committed the Murder
- DramaThe Other Side
- DramaI Was A Spy
- DramaThe Chess Player
- DramaA Man's Past
- ActionKing of the Damned
- DramaThe Men in Her Life
- DramaLady Hamilton
- DramaLucrezia Borgia
- HistoryLe comte Kostia
- movieThe Flight in the Night
- ComedyWhistling in the Dark
- DramaThe Last Company
- DramaWilhelm Tell
- DocumentaryLaws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
- DramaKurfürstendamm
- DramaWilhelm Tell
- DramaTwo Brothers
- DocumentaryConrad Veidt: My Life
- DramaThe Merry-Go-Round
- DramaTempête sur l'Asie
- DramaShould We Be Silent?
- DramaRasputin, Demon of the Women
- movieThe Wife's Crusade
- movieMenschen im Rausch
- ComedyImpetuous Youth
- DramaDas Geheimnis von Bombay
- movieLiebestaumel
- ComedyCongress Dances
- DramaHusbands or Lovers
- DramaEscape
- AdventureThe Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yogi
- FantasyEerie Tales
- ComedyThe Only Girl
- DramaJourney Into the Night
- AdventureThe Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Bengal
- DramaSchicksal
- DramaThe Story of Dida Ibsen
- HorrorDer Graf von Cagliostro
- movieJettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
- movieJettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
- movieLiebe macht blind
- DramaMoriturus
- AdventureDer Spion
- DramaEs werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
- ComedyThe Congress Dances
- DramaProstitution
- DramaDer Weg des Todes
- movieWenn Tote sprechen
- movieDer Leidensweg der Inge Krafft
- movieEvening - Night - Morning
- movieDas Rätsel von Bangalor
- HorrorFear
- movieColomba
- DramaBella Donna
- HorrorNachtgestalten
- DramaOpium
- DramaDas Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
- movieThe Movie City of Hollywood
- DocumentaryA New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
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Conrad Veidt
Actor
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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- Place of Birth
- Berlin, Germany
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