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 | Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad | Jaffar (archival footage) | 2008-05-27 |
Movie | Universal Horror | (archive footage) | 1998-10-08 |
Movie | The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute | Self (archive footage) | 1974-02-20 |
Movie | Above Suspicion | Hassert Seidel | 1943-05-31 |
Movie | Casablanca | Major Heinrich Strasser | 1943-01-15 |
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 | The Thief of Bagdad | Jaffar | 1940-02-19 |
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 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 | The Passing of the Third Floor Back | The Stranger | 1935-09-01 |
Movie | King of the Damned | Convict 83 | 1935-12-31 |
Movie | Wilhelm Tell | Gessler | 1934-01-12 |
Movie | Bella Donna | Mahmoud Baroudi | 1934-12-11 |
Movie | Jew Süss | Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer | 1934-10-13 |
Movie | The Only Girl | Marquis de Pontignac | 1933-02-22 |
Movie | F.P.1 | Maj. Ellissen | 1933-04-02 |
Movie | The Wandering Jew | Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios | 1933-11-15 |
Movie | I Was a Spy | Commandant Oberaertz | 1933-09-04 |
Movie | Rasputin, Demon of the Women | Grigori Rasputin | 1932-02-19 |
Movie | The Black Hussar | Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg | 1932-10-12 |
Movie | Rome Express | Zurta | 1932-10-31 |
Movie | The Man Who Committed the Murder | Oberst Marquis de Sévigné | 1931-01-23 |
Movie | The Congress Dances | Fürst Metternich | 1931-09-29 |
Movie | Congress Dances | Prince Metternich | 1931-12-03 |
Movie | The Other Side | Hauptmann Stanhope | 1931-10-29 |
Movie | The Last Company | Hauptmann Burk | 1930-03-14 |
Movie | The Love Storm | Kingsley | 1930-11-21 |
Movie | The Great Longing | Himself | 1930-08-24 |
Movie | Das Land ohne Frauen | Dick Ashton | 1929-09-30 |
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 | Napoleon | Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade | 1927-05-08 |
Movie | The Beloved Rogue | King Louis XI | 1927-03-12 |
Movie | A Man's Past | Paul La Roche | 1927-10-01 |
Movie | Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed! | 1927-11-16 | |
Movie | Impetuous Youth | Renées Vater | 1926-03-10 |
Movie | The Wife's Crusade | Der Staatsanwalt | 1926-01-02 |
Movie | Two Brothers | Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg | 1926-03-22 |
Movie | Should We Be Silent? | Paul Hartwig, Maler | 1926-04-05 |
Movie | The Student of Prague | Balduin, Student | 1926-10-19 |
Movie | The Flight in the Night | Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV | 1926-12-13 |
Movie | Le Comte Kostia | Comte Kostia | 1925-05-29 |
Movie | Schicksal | 1925-02-12 | |
Movie | The Ingmar Inheritance | Hellgum | 1925-12-26 |
Movie | Don Carlos und Elisabeth | Don Carlos | 1924-02-24 |
Movie | The Film in the Film | Himself | 1924-06-26 |
Movie | Waxworks | Ivan the Terrible | 1924-11-13 |
Movie | Husbands or Lovers | Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter | 1924-11-21 |
Movie | The Hands of Orlac | Paul Orlac | 1924-09-24 |
Movie | Paganini | Niccolo Paganini | 1923-03-31 |
Movie | Wilhelm Tell | Hermann Gessler | 1923-08-22 |
Movie | Lucrezia Borgia | Cesare Borgia | 1922-10-20 |
Movie | Liebestaumel | Jalenko | 1921-02-01 |
Movie | Journey into the Night | Der Maler | 1921-01-21 |
Movie | Desire | Ivan | 1921-02-01 |
Movie | Menschen im Rausch | Professor Munk | 1921-01-06 |
Movie | Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore | Hektor Dalmore | 1921-02-22 |
Movie | Das Geheimnis von Bombay | Tossi | 1921-01-06 |
Movie | Landstraße und Großstadt | Raphael, der Geiger | 1921-04-22 |
Movie | Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft | 1921-03-11 | |
Movie | The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur | Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur | 1921-11-19 |
Movie | Lady Hamilton | Lord Nelson | 1921-10-19 |
Movie | The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi | Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur | 1921-10-22 |
Movie | Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon | Christian Wahnschaffe | 1921-03-30 |
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 | Kurfürstendamm | The devil | 1920-07-29 |
Movie | Patience | Sir Percy Parker | 1920-04-16 |
Movie | The Count of Cagliostro | Minister | 1920-12-21 |
Movie | The Head of Janus | Dr. Warren | 1920-08-26 |
Movie | Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand | Christian Wahnschaffe | 1920-11-12 |
Movie | Manolescu's Memoirs | Manolescu | 1920-09-30 |
Movie | Moriturus | Wilmos, sanatorium director | 1920-09-23 |
Movie | Die Japanerin | 1919-01-24 | |
Movie | Prostitution | Alfred Werner | 1919-03-19 |
Movie | Nocturno der Liebe | Frederic Chopin | 1919-01-01 |
Movie | Around the World in 80 Days | Phineas Fogg | 1919-03-20 |
Movie | Die Mexikanerin | Dr. von Dossen | 1919-01-01 |
Movie | Opfer der Gesellschaft | 1919-01-01 | |
Movie | Opium | Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr. | 1919-01-07 |
Movie | Eerie Tales | Der Tod / Various Other Roles | 1919-11-05 |
Movie | Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod | 1919-04-06 | |
Movie | Prinz Kuckuck | Carl Kraker | 1919-09-24 |
Movie | Wahnsinn | Bankier Lorenzen | 1919-10-14 |
Movie | Different from the Others | Paul Körner | 1919-05-28 |
Movie | Prostitution II | Alfred Werner | 1919-08-29 |
Movie | Not of the Woman Born | Satan | 1918-10-01 |
Movie | Das Rätsel von Bangalor | Dinja | 1918-01-11 |
Movie | Diary of a Lost Woman | Dr. Julius | 1918-10-29 |
Movie | Das Dreimäderlhaus | Schober | 1918-09-22 |
Movie | Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter | Kramer | 1918-11-22 |
Movie | Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert | Doktor Köstling | 1918-11-08 |
Movie | The Story of Dida Ibsen | Erik Norrensen | 1918-12-12 |
Movie | Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby | Doktor Köstling | 1918-12-13 |
Movie | Colomba | Henryk von Rhyn | 1918-11-08 |
Movie | Der Weg des Todes | 1917-02-01 | |
Movie | Der Spion | Steinau | 1917-08-31 |
Movie | Fear | Indian Priest | 1917-03-06 |