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.
Casablanca
as Major Heinrich StrasserIn Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover,...
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
as CesareFrancis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane...
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Napoleon
as Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de SadeA biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a...
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The Thief of Bagdad
as JaffarWhen Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces...
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The Man Who Laughs
as Gwynplaine / Lord ClancharlieGwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in...
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The Hands of Orlac
as Paul OrlacA world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is...
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All Through the Night
as Franz EbbingBroadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
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Above Suspicion
as Hassert SeidelTwo newlyweds spy on the Nazis for the British Secret Service during their honeymoon in Europe.
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Dark Journey
as Baron Karl Von MarwitzMadeline Goddard, is a British double agent who meets and falls in love with a German spy Baron...
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A Woman's Face
as Torsten BarringA female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the...
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The Spy in Black
as Captain Ernst HardtA German submarine is sent to the Orkney Isles in 1917 to sink the British fleet.
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Waxworks
as Ivan the TerribleA poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid,...
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The Wandering Jew
as Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos BattadiosOld Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to...
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Different from the Others
as Paul KörnerConrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands...
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Contraband
as Capt. AndersenWhen a neutral Danish merchant ship is forced to put into port after trying to evade British...
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The Beloved Rogue
as King Louis XIFrançois Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an...
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Escape
as General Kurt von KolbAn American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration...
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The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
as Ayan, Majarajah of EschnapurAyan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to...
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The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
as Ayan, Majarajah of EschnapurRowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a...
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Eerie Tales
as Der Tod / Various Other RolesA demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
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Husbands or Lovers
as Der Liebhaber, ein DichterA wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly...
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The Passing of the Third Floor Back
as The StrangerThe tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping...
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Whistling in the Dark
as Joseph JonesRadio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a...
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The Last Performance
as Erik the GreatA middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is...
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A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as SelfThis short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes...
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Nazi Agent
as Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von DetnerHumble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he...
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Universal Horror
as (archive footage)A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during...
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Lady Hamilton
as Lord NelsonThe married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
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Rome Express
as ZurtaThe theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from...
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King of the Damned
as Convict 83Revolt on a prison island is a parable of workers revolution. A cruel and repressive penal...
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Landstraße und Großstadt
as Raphael, der GeigerTwo poor musicians rise from rags to riches. Money, fame and their love for the same woman begin...
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The Ingmar Inheritance
as HellgumWhen his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young...
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Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Christian WahnschaffeWeltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
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Around the World in 80 Days
as Phineas FoggWealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.
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The Student of Prague
as Balduin, StudentFor Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the...
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I Was a Spy
as Commandant OberaertzDuring World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding...
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Fear
as Indian PriestA millionaire steals an ancient idol causing some natives call upon him a terrible curse.
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The Film in the Film
as HimselfThe only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the...
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Journey into the Night
as Der MalerDr. Egil Börne, an eminent physician, comes under the spell of an unscrupulous cabaret dancer...
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The Congress Dances
as Fürst MetternichVienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince...
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The Last Company
as Hauptmann BurkFollowing the Battle of Jena in 1806 as the French armies commanded by Napoleon overrun Prussia,...
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A Man's Past
as Paul La RocheImprisoned at the French garrison on the Isle of St. Noir for putting to death a patient...
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Bella Donna
as Mahmoud BaroudiThat old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was...
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Under the Red Robe
as Gil de BeraultIn 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for...
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Prostitution II
as Alfred WernerAbout a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.
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Lucrezia Borgia
as Cesare BorgiaRodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a...
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The Only Girl
as Marquis de PontignacA dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls....
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Jew Süss
as Josef 'Jew Süss' OppenheimerA historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel...
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The Many Faces of Dracula
as Self (archive footage)Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed...
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The Great Longing
as HimselfDuring lunch break at the movie studio, the extras rush to the canteen Hans Adalbert Schlettow,...
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The Black Hussar
as Captain Hansgeorg von HochbergIn 1812, during the French period, large parts of Germany are occupied by the troops of...
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The Chess Player
as Le baron de KempelenA toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing...
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The Head of Janus
as Dr. WarrenTwo opposing characters are hidden in the person of the inconspicuous London gentleman Dr....
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Figures of the Night
as The clown"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel...
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Opium
as Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he...
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Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
as IvanA young Russian dancer in Geneva returns to Russia, where he falls in love with a grand duchess....
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The Men in Her Life
as Stanislas RosingA circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and...
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Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
as uncreditedA documentary by Magnus Hirschfeld, which contains a shortened version of Different From the...
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The Love Storm
as KingsleyThis is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).
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F.P.1
as Maj. EllissenUrged by famous airman Ellissen the Lennartz Company puts into reality the project proposed by...
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Tempête sur l'Asie
as Erich KeithAn adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .
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The Flight in the Night
as Count di Nolli, Heinrich IVBased on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman...
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Der Weg des Todes
as uncreditedA countess decides to get rid of a nosy stranger by luring him into a castle dungeon.
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Wilhelm Tell
as Hermann GesslerWilliam Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell) is a 1923 German silent adventure film directed by Rudolf...
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Impetuous Youth
as Renées VaterGirl dressed up as a boy falls in love with a painter.
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Congress Dances
as Prince MetternichIn 1815, Tsar Alexander I romances a working-class glove seller, while his double takes his...
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Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
as Doktor KöstlingA young Jewish woman is pressured to marry a wealthy man even though she is in love with someone...
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Don Carlos und Elisabeth
as Don CarlosDon Carlos, heir to the Spanish throne, and Princess Elisabeth of Valois are deeply in love but...
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The Other Side
as Hauptmann StanhopeThe First World War. The young, English Lieutenant Raleigh is sent to the company of a...
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The Man Who Committed the Murder
as Oberst Marquis de SévignéThe story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English...
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The Story of Dida Ibsen
as Erik NorrensenDida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the...
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Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
as Christian WahnschaffeEscape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian...
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Das Land ohne Frauen
as Dick AshtonA group of 413 women answer an ad looking for British women to sail to and marry miners in...
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Should We Be Silent?
as Paul Hartwig, MalerA melodrama about a painter who is infected with syphilis, refuses treatment, turns to the use...
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Evening – Night – Morning
as Brilburn - Maud's brotherCheston, a millionaire, is looking after Maud, a beautiful woman from the 'demimonde'. Her...
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The Count of Cagliostro
as MinisterAbout a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the...
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Prinz Kuckuck
as Carl KrakerThe niece and nephew of an eccentric millionaire try to get a share of the now deceased...
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Moriturus
as Wilmos, sanatorium directorA doctor who cannot figure out what is wrong with his patient refers him to a detective, whom he...
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Rasputin, Demon of the Women
as Grigori RasputinThe demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this...
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Prostitution
as Alfred WernerHedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola...
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as TossiGabriela Farnese, a famous singer, visits Bombay to find her mysterious doppelganger, the dancer...
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The Merry-Go-Round
as Petre KarvanDrama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows...
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Paganini
as Niccolo PaganiniHistorical film about Italian musician Niccolo Paganini.
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