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