Conrad Veidt

Acting · 1.1 popularity

Age

133

Movies

121

Born: January 22, 1893 – April 3, 1943
From: Berlin, Germany

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.

Works

121 films

Casablanca

19438.1

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

19207.9

The Thief of Bagdad

19407.1

Manolescu's Memoirs

19209.0

Napoleon

19277.8

The Hands of Orlac

19246.9

The Man Who Laughs

19287.3

Wahnsinn

191910.0

The Mystery of Bangalore

1918

A Woman's Face

19416.8

All Through the Night

19426.7

The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute

19747.7

Tempête sur l'Asie

19389.0

Eerie Tales

19195.5

People in Ecstasy

19218.0

The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi

19215.7

Künstlerlaunen

19209.0

Das Dreimäderlhaus

1918

Danton

19216.5

Lady Hamilton

19215.9

Der Spion

19177.5

I Was a Spy

19336.4

Above Suspicion

19436.2

Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand

192010.0

The Merry-Go-Round

19207.0

Congress Dances

19317.2

Opium

19196.7

The Spy in Black

19396.5

Le Comte Kostia

19259.0

The Many Faces of Dracula

20003.5

Das Geheimnis von Bombay

19217.0

Escape

19407.5

Liebestaumel

19215.5

Husbands or Lovers

19245.6

The Chess Player

19385.3

Fear

19175.3

Dark Journey

19376.4

Der Weg des Todes

1917

Colomba

1918

Bella Donna

19343.8

Waxworks

19246.4

Wenn Tote sprechen

1917

Paganini

19237.0

Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!

19275.8

Schicksal

192510.0

The Story of Dida Ibsen

1918

Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft

192110.0

Figures of the Night

192010.0

Nazi Agent

19426.6

The Passing of the Third Floor Back

19357.8

Whistling in the Dark

19415.9

The Movie City of Hollywood

19287.0

The Beloved Rogue

19276.9

The Count of Cagliostro

19208.0

Landstraße und Großstadt

19217.0

Moriturus

19207.0

Nocturno der Liebe

1919

Vito

20116.9

Different from the Others

19197.1

The Men in Her Life

19416.7

The Wife's Crusade

19267.0

The Student of Prague

19266.6

Rome Express

19326.1

The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur

19216.0

Contraband

19407.1

The Wandering Jew

19337.4

Universal Horror

19987.1

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

19406.8

Jew Süss

19345.7

Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod

1919

The Last Performance

19296.5

Evening – Night – Morning

192010.0

The Other Side

19317.0

The Head of Janus

19209.0

Lucrezia Borgia

19225.1

Around the World in 80 Days

19196.3

Under the Red Robe

19376.8

Glanz gegen Glück

19238.0

The Japanese Woman

19198.0

Diary of a Lost Woman

19186.0

The Black Hussar

19326.7

Rasputin, Demon of the Women

19328.3

Don Carlos und Elisabeth

19248.0

Journey into the Night

19216.1

The Last Company

19306.8

Impetuous Youth

19266.8

The Only Girl

19336.2

A Man's Past

19276.5

Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert

1918

Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon

19217.0

King of the Damned

19357.0

The Ingmar Inheritance

19257.1

The Film in the Film

19247.3

Should We Be Silent?

19266.0

Love Is Blind

192610.0

Prinz Kuckuck

19199.0

Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby

1918

The Night of the Decision

19317.0

Kurfürstendamm

192010.0

The Great Passion

19307.7

Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

20087.0

Two Brothers

19265.3

Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter

191810.0

The Man Who Committed the Murder

19315.8

Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer

19218.0

The Love Storm

193010.0

Prostitution II

19197.0

Das Land ohne Frauen

192910.0

Prostitution

19198.0

Wilhelm Tell

19235.8

Wilhelm Tell

19346.0

Patience

19208.0

F.P.1

19336.6

Not of the Woman Born

1918

Die Okarina

191910.0

The Flight in the Night

1926

Die Augen der Welt

19209.0

Opfer der Gesellschaft

1919

Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore

19217.0

The Mexican

19198.0

Die Nacht auf Goldenhall

19209.0