Conrad Veidt
Personal Info
Known For Actor
Gender Male
Birthday 1893-01-22
Deathday 1943-04-03 (50 years old)
Place of Birth Berlin, Germany
Also Known As Veidt, Hans Walter Conrad Veidt, Конрад Файдт
Conrad Veidt
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
Actor
as Jaffar (archival footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as (archive footage)
as Self (archive footage)
as Hassert Seidel
as Major Heinrich Strasser
as Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
as Franz Ebbing
as Stanislas Rosing
as Joseph Jones
as Torsten Barring
as General Kurt von Kolb
as Capt. Andersen
as Jaffar
as Captain Ernst Hardt
as Le baron de Kempelen
as Erich Keith
as Baron Karl Von Marwitz
as Gil de Berault
as Convict 83
as The Stranger
as Mahmoud Baroudi
as Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer
as Gessler
as Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios
as Commandant Oberaertz
as Maj. Ellissen
as Marquis de Pontignac
as Zurta
as Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg
as Grigori Rasputin
as Prince Metternich
as Hauptmann Stanhope
as Fürst Metternich
as Oberst Marquis de Sévigné
as Kingsley
as Himself
as Hauptmann Burk
as Erik the Great
as Dick Ashton
as Self
as Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie
as Paul La Roche
as Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
as King Louis XI
as Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV
as Balduin, Student
as Paul Hartwig, Maler
as Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg
as Renées Vater
as Der Staatsanwalt
as Hellgum
as Comte Kostia
as Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter
as Ivan the Terrible
as Paul Orlac
as Himself
as Don Carlos
as Hermann Gessler
as Niccolo Paganini
as Cesare Borgia
as Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
as Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
as Lord Nelson
as Raphael, der Geiger
as Christian Wahnschaffe
as Hektor Dalmore
as Ivan
as Jalenko
as Der Maler
as Professor Munk
as Tossi
as Minister
as Christian Wahnschaffe
as Manolescu
as Brilburn - Maud's brother
as Wilmos, sanatorium director
as Dr. Warren
as The devil
as Johannes Kay
as Sir Percy Parker
as Cesare
as Petre Karvan
as The clown
as Der Tod / Various Other Roles
as Bankier Lorenzen
as Carl Kraker
as Alfred Werner
as Paul Körner
as Phineas Fogg
as Alfred Werner
as Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.
as Frederic Chopin
as Dr. von Dossen
as Doktor Köstling
as Erik Norrensen
as Kramer
as Henryk von Rhyn
as Doktor Köstling
as Dr. Julius
as Satan
as Schober
as Dinja
as Steinau
as Richard von Worth
as Indian Priest
Director
as Director
as Director
Producer
as Producer