Conrad Veidt

Acting · 1.0 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 Man Who Laughs

19287.3

The Mystery of Bangalore

1918

The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute

19747.7

Wahnsinn

191910.0

Eerie Tales

19195.5

Tempête sur l'Asie

19389.0

All Through the Night

19426.7

Der Spion

19177.5

The Hands of Orlac

19246.9

A Woman's Face

19416.8

Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand

192010.0

Danton

19216.5

Künstlerlaunen

19209.0

Lady Hamilton

19215.9

Fear

19175.3

Opium

19196.7

People in Ecstasy

19218.0

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

19215.7

Das Dreimäderlhaus

1918

Husbands or Lovers

19245.6

Paganini

19237.0

Above Suspicion

19436.2

Colomba

1918

Liebestaumel

19215.5

Bella Donna

19343.8

Der Weg des Todes

1917

Waxworks

19246.4

Figures of the Night

192010.0

Schicksal

192510.0

Das Geheimnis von Bombay

19217.0

Wenn Tote sprechen

1917

The Chess Player

19385.3

Escape

19407.5

Le Comte Kostia

19259.0

I Was a Spy

19336.4

Moriturus

19207.0

The Spy in Black

19396.5

The Many Faces of Dracula

20003.5

The Merry-Go-Round

19207.0

Dark Journey

19376.4

Evening – Night – Morning

192010.0

Nazi Agent

19426.6

The Story of Dida Ibsen

1918

Whistling in the Dark

19415.9

The Wandering Jew

19337.4

The Wife's Crusade

19267.0

Contraband

19407.1

The Movie City of Hollywood

19287.0

Vito

20116.9

Nocturno der Liebe

1919

Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft

192110.0

Universal Horror

19987.1

The Count of Cagliostro

19208.0

Landstraße und Großstadt

19217.0

The Student of Prague

19266.6

The Other Side

19317.0

Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!

19275.8

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

1919

The Only Girl

19336.2

The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur

19216.0

Rome Express

19326.1

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

19406.8

Under the Red Robe

19376.8

Different from the Others

19197.1

Journey into the Night

19216.1

Lucrezia Borgia

19225.1

The Head of Janus

19209.0

Around the World in 80 Days

19196.3

The Beloved Rogue

19276.9

Congress Dances

19317.2

Jew Süss

19345.7

The Last Performance

19296.5

The Black Hussar

19326.7

The Men in Her Life

19416.7

The Passing of the Third Floor Back

19357.8

The Man Who Committed the Murder

19315.8

Glanz gegen Glück

19238.0

The Great Passion

19307.7

The Japanese Woman

19198.0

The Last Company

19306.8

A Man's Past

19276.5

The Film in the Film

19247.3

Don Carlos und Elisabeth

19248.0

Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert

1918

Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon

19217.0

The Ingmar Inheritance

19257.1

Impetuous Youth

19266.8

Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby

1918

Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer

19218.0

Diary of a Lost Woman

19186.0

Two Brothers

19265.3

The Night of the Decision

19317.0

The Love Storm

193010.0

Prostitution II

19197.0

Rasputin, Demon of the Women

19328.3

Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

20087.0

King of the Damned

19357.0

Love Is Blind

192610.0

Prostitution

19198.0

Prinz Kuckuck

19199.0

Patience

19208.0

Die Augen der Welt

19209.0

Wilhelm Tell

19235.8

Kurfürstendamm

192010.0

Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter

191810.0

F.P.1

19336.6

Wilhelm Tell

19346.0

Die Okarina

191910.0

Should We Be Silent?

19266.0

Das Land ohne Frauen

192910.0

Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore

19217.0

Not of the Woman Born

1918

The Mexican

19198.0

Die Nacht auf Goldenhall

19209.0

The Flight in the Night

1926

Opfer der Gesellschaft

1919