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Conrad Veidt
🎂 Jan 22, 1893 — 🕯️ Apr 3, 1943 (50 years)
Berlin, Germany
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).
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Casablanca
1943
Napoleon
1927
All Through the Night
1942
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
A Woman's Face
1941
The Thief of Bagdad
1940
Nazi Agent
1942
The Man Who Laughs
1928
The Spy in Black
1939
The Hands of Orlac
1924
Escape
1940
I Was a Spy
1933
The Last Company
1930
Contraband
1940
Rome Express
1932
Above Suspicion
1943
The Wandering Jew
1933
Whistling in the Dark
1941
The Beloved Rogue
1927
Waxworks
1924
Dark Journey
1937
The Chess Player
1938
King of the Damned
1935
Danton
1921
The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
1921
Lucrezia Borgia
1922
Under the Red Robe
1937
Jew Süss
1934
The Man Who Committed the Murder
1931
The Only Girl
1933
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
1921
Journey into the Night
1921
F.P.1
1933
The Men in Her Life
1941
The Last Performance
1929
Lady Hamilton
1921
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
1935
Bella Donna
1934
Wilhelm Tell
1923
The Congress Dances
1931
Fear
1917
Eerie Tales
1919
Husbands or Lovers
1924
The Ingmar Inheritance
1925
Opium
1919
Impetuous Youth
1926
Different from the Others
1919
The Student of Prague
1926
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Conrad Veidt
1893-01-22 · Berlin, Germany
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.