Conrad Veidt
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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Movies (122)
Vito
2011 · Self (archive footage)
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
2008 · Jaffar (archival footage)
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000 · Self (archive footage)
Universal Horror
1998 · (archive footage)
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
1974 · Self (archive footage)
Los ojos del siglo (Volumen I)
1957 · Él mismo (material de archivo)
Above Suspicion
1943 · Hassert Seidel
Casablanca
1943 · Major Heinrich Strasser
Nazi Agent
1942 · Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
All Through the Night
1942 · Franz Ebbing
The Men in Her Life
1941 · Stanislas Rosing
Whistling in the Dark
1941 · Joseph Jones
A Woman's Face
1941 · Torsten Barring
Escape
1940 · General Kurt von Kolb
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
1940 · Self
Contraband
1940 · Capt. Andersen
The Thief of Bagdad
1940 · Jaffar
The Spy in Black
1939 · Captain Ernst Hardt
The Chess Player
1938 · Le baron de Kempelen
Tempête sur l'Asie
1938 · Erich Keith
Under the Red Robe
1937 · Gil de Berault
Dark Journey
1937 · Baron Karl Von Marwitz
King of the Damned
1935 · Convict 83
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
1935 · The Stranger
Bella Donna
1934 · Mahmoud Baroudi
Jew Süss
1934 · Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer
William Tell
1934 · Gessler
The Wandering Jew
1933 · Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios
I Was a Spy
1933 · Commandant Oberaertz
F.P.1
1933 · Maj. Ellissen
The Only Girl
1933 · Marquis de Pontignac
Rome Express
1932 · Zurta
The Black Hussar
1932 · Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg
Rasputin, Demon of the Women
1932 · Grigori Rasputin
The Other Side
1931 · Hauptmann Stanhope
Congress Dances
1931 · Fürst Metternich
The Night of the Decision
1931 · General Gregori Platoff
The Man Who Committed the Murder
1931 · Oberst Marquis de Sévigné
The Love Storm
1930 · Kingsley
The Great Desire
1930 · Himself
The Last Company
1930 · Hauptmann Burk
The Last Performance
1929 · Erik the Great
Das Land ohne Frauen
1929 · Dick Ashton
The Movie City of Hollywood
1928 · Self
The Man Who Laughs
1928 · Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie
Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
1927
A Man's Past
1927 · Paul La Roche
The Beloved Rogue
1927 · King Louis XI
Napoleon
1927 · Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
The Flight in the Night
1926 · Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV
The Student of Prague
1926 · Balduin, Student
Love Is Blind
1926
Should We Be Silent?
1926 · Paul Hartwig, Maler
Two Brothers
1926 · Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg
Impetuous Youth
1926 · Renées Vater
The Wife's Crusade
1926 · Der Staatsanwalt
The Ingmar Inheritance
1925 · Hellgum
Le Comte Kostia
1925 · Comte Kostia
Schicksal
1925
Husbands or Lovers
1924 · Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter
Waxworks
1924 · Ivan the Terrible
The Hands of Orlac
1924 · Paul Orlac
The Film in the Film
1924 · Self
Don Carlos und Elisabeth
1924 · Don Carlos
William Tell
1923 · Hermann Gessler
Paganini
1923 · Niccolo Paganini
Glanz gegen Glück
1923
Lucrezia Borgia
1922 · Cesare Borgia
The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
1921 · Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
1921 · Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
Lady Hamilton
1921 · Lord Nelson
Danton
1921 · Minor Role (rumored)
Landstraße und Großstadt
1921 · Raphael, der Geiger
Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
1921 · Christian Wahnschaffe
Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft
1921
Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
1921 · Hektor Dalmore
Liebestaumel
1921 · Jalenko
Journey into the Night
1921 · Der Maler
People in Ecstasy
1921 · Professor Munk
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
1921 · Tossi
Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
1921 · Ivan
The Count of Cagliostro
1920 · Minister
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
1920 · Christian Wahnschaffe
Manolescu's Memoirs
1920 · Manolescu
Evening – Night – Morning
1920 · Brilburn - Maud's brother
Moriturus
1920 · Wilmos, sanatorium director
The Head of Janus
1920 · Dr. Warren
Künstlerlaunen
1920
Kurfürstendamm
1920 · The devil
The Eyes of the World
1920 · Johannes Kay
Patience
1920 · Sir Percy Parker
Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
1920 · Director, Producer
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920 · Cesare
The Merry-Go-Round
1920 · Petre Karvan
Figures of the Night
1920 · The clown
Eerie Tales
1919 · Der Tod / Various Other Roles
Wahnsinn
1919 · Bankier Lorenzen, Director
Prinz Kuckuck
1919 · Carl Kraker
Prostitution II
1919 · Alfred Werner
The Ocarina
1919
Different from the Others
1919 · Paul Körner
Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod
1919
Around the World in 80 Days
1919 · Phineas Fogg
Prostitution
1919 · Alfred Werner
The Japanese Woman
1919
Opium
1919 · Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.
Nocturno der Liebe
1919 · Frederic Chopin
The Mexican
1919 · Dr. von Dossen
Opfer der Gesellschaft
1919
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
1918 · Doktor Köstling
The Story of Dida Ibsen
1918 · Erik Norrensen
Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
1918 · Kramer
Colomba
1918 · Henryk von Rhyn
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
1918 · Doktor Köstling
Diary of a Lost Woman
1918 · Dr. Julius
Not of the Woman Born
1918 · Satan
Das Dreimäderlhaus
1918 · Schober
The Mystery of Bangalore
1918 · Dinja
Fear
1917 · Indian Priest
Der Spion
1917 · Steinau
Wenn Tote sprechen
1917 · Richard von Worth
Der Weg des Todes
1917
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