Harry Baur
Harry Baur (12 April 1880 – 8 April 1943) was a French actor. Initially a stage actor, Baur appeared in about 80 films between 1909 and 1942. He gave an acclaimed performance as the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in the biopic Beethoven's Great Love (Un grand amour de Beethoven, 1936), directed by Abel Gance, and as Jean Valjean in Raymond Bernard's version of Les Misérables (1934). He also acted in Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset's silent film, Beethoven (1909), and in La voyante (1923), Sarah Bernhardt's last film. In 1942, while in Berlin, to star in his last film Symphone eines Lebens, Baur's wife was arrested by the Gestapo and charged with espionage. His effort to secure her release led to his own arrest and torture. He was being falsely labelled as a Jew but confirmed freemason. He was released in April 1943, but died in Paris shortly after in mysterious circumstances. Academy Award-winning American actor Rod Steiger cited Baur as one of his favorite actors who had exerted a major influence on his craft and career.
A Man's Neck
as Commissaire Jules MaigretWilly Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead...
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Les Misérables
as Jean Valjean / ChampmathieuIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...
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The Red Head
as Mr. LepicA red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag; only his father's presence is a great comfort to...
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Life Dances On
as Alain RegnaultAfter the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying...
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Sins of Youth
as Monsieur LacaladeA rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on...
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The Secrets of the Red Sea
as uncreditedSaid Ali, an old and sick noble Arab, living on an island in the Red Sea, has no other...
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Who Killed Santa Claus?
as Gaspard CornusseA village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred...
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Behold the Man
as HérodeThe final days of Jesus from the time he enters the city of Jerusalem. Viewed as a threat, it is...
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Samson
as Jacques BrachartAn aristocratic woman is coerced by her impoverished family into marrying a wealthy business tycoon.
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The Old Devil
as Guillaume VautierVautier, a wealthy surgeon in his fifties, falls in love with Hélène, a young woman from a...
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Volpone
as VolponeVolpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy...
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Rasputin
as RasputinStory of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last...
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The Life and Loves of Beethoven
as Ludwig van BeethovenLyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
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Hatred
as le capitaine MollenardCaptain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an...
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David Golder
as David GolderDavid is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business...
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L'Assommoir
as uncreditedEveryman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful...
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The Three Musketeers
as M. de TrévilleYoung d'Artagnan leaves Gascony for Paris where he hopes to become a Musketeer of the Guard. He...
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The Golem
as L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de BohèmeThe Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble...
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Moscow Nights
as Peter BrioukowDuring the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse,...
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Moscow Nights
as Piotr BrioukowDuring the First World War, the Russian officer Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his...
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Crime and Punishment
as PorphyrePierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur....
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Dark Eyes
as Ivan Ivanovitch PetroffIn 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting...
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Rothchild
as RothchildAn ex-businessman, ruined and reduced to living under bridges, uses the name of one of his...
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Nitchevo
as uncreditedA commander suspects his wife of infidelity, when she turns to a subordinate officer to help her...
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The Lost Course
as Le Capitaine KellBored with her life with her husband the lighthouse keeper, Hélène sleeps with two other men who...
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Criminal
as Warden BradyA wrongfully convicted man finds himself suspected of a crime committed in his prison.
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The New Men
as BourronDedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern...
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Moon over Morocco
as M. de MarouvelleWhen one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five...
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African Diary
as Docteur BourdetDuring a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and...
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Le Patriote
as Le TsarThe reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of...
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Sarati the Terrible
as Cesar SaratiIn Algiers, Cesar Sarati who grudges the dockers, is, without realizing it, in love with his...
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The Postmaster's Daughter
as Virine, le maitre de posteA small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St....
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Polish Jew
as MathiasThe story recounts the murder of an itinerant Jew (Jules Maurice)by the village Burgomaster...
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The Clairvoyant
as Monsieur DetailleJean is thrown out of the house by his father, a remarried politician, out of jealousy for his...
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President Haudecoeur
as President HaudecoeurA public prosecutor wants his son to marry an ugly girl(who has a squint) because her mom is...
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Flower of Paris
as Harry PodgeFleur de Paris has Mistinguett playing herself in a double role as two very different...
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