Werner Krauß

Born: 1884-06-23

Werner Johannes Krauss (Krauß in German; 23 June 1884 – 20 October 1959) was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the antisemitic propaganda film Jud Süß and his collaboration with the Nazis made him a controversial figure.


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Tartuffe

as Herr Orgon
Released: 1926-01-25

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order...

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

as Dr. Caligari
Released: 1920-02-27

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane...

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The Joyless Street

as Josef Geiringer
Released: 1925-03-01

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as...

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Waxworks

as Jack the Ripper / Spring-Heeled Jack
Released: 1924-11-13

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid,...

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Süss, the Jew

as Rabbi Loew
Released: 1940-09-24

Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.

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Nana

as Count Muffat
Released: 1926-06-25

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical...

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The Dance of Death

as The Cripple
Released: 1919-10-31

In this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to...

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Variety

as uncredited
Released: 1925-11-16

The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell...

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Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

as Geheimrat Rudolf Virchow
Released: 1939-12-30

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his...

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The Student of Prague

as Scapinelli, Wucherer
Released: 1926-10-19

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the...

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Jealousy

as Mann - Georges Ménard
Released: 1925-09-17

A couple are at the theatre with a playwright friend. At the end of the play the jealous husband...

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Paracelsus

as Paracelsus
Released: 1943-03-12

The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus...

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Zirkus des Lebens

as Philipp Hogger
Released: 1921-12-15

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The Ancient Law

as Nathan, der Professor
Released: 1923-10-29

Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the...

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Die Frau ohne Seele

as uncredited
Released: 1920-05-13

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Universal Horror

as (archive footage)
Released: 1998-10-08

A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during...

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The Burning Soil

as Der alte Rog / Old Rog
Released: 1922-03-03

The film follows tells the story of a struggle over a plot of petroleum-rich land.

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A Night of Horror

as The artist
Released: 1917-02-09

An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too...

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Mazeppa, Folk Hero of the Ukraine

as Mazeppa
Released: 1919-07-01

The film tells the story of Ivan Mazeppa, a Ukrainian page at the Polish court who has an affair...

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Opium

as Nung-Tschang
Released: 1919-01-07

In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he...

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Alt Heidelberg

as Dr. Jüttner
Released: 1923-10-21

Prince Karl Heinz enjoys his carefree life as a student in Heidelberg. He falls in love with the...

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The Story of Dida Ibsen

as Philipp Galen
Released: 1918-12-12

Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the...

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Secrets of a Soul

as Martin Fellman
Released: 1926-03-24

Werner Krauss, who had played the deranged Dr. Caligari six years earlier, stars as a scientist...

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The Dismissal

as Geheimrat von Holstein
Released: 1942-09-15

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his...

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Othello

as Iago
Released: 1922-02-08

Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic...

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Hundert Tage

as Napoleon
Released: 1935-03-22

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Decameron Nights

as Soldan
Released: 1924-01-02

A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.

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Phantome des Lebens

as uncredited
Released: 1919-01-01

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Johannes Goth

as uncredited
Released: 1920-05-07

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The Film in the Film

as Himself
Released: 1924-06-26

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the...

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Danton

as Robespierre
Released: 1921-05-03

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of...

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Sohn ohne Heimat

as Wilhelm Hartmann
Released: 1955-10-26

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Opfer

as Premier
Released: 1920-01-15

After her brother is sent to Siberia, Sonja heads to Moscow to participate in a revolution.

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Der letzte Appell

as uncredited
Released: 1939-01-01

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Nathan der Weise

as Nathan
Released: 1922-12-28

Silent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it...

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The Vice of Humanity

as Willibald Cooks
Released: 1927-04-05

Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer...

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Prostitution

as Mann
Released: 1919-03-19

Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola...

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Wenn Frauen lieben und hassen

as uncredited
Released: 1917-01-01

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Yorck

as General Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg
Released: 1931-12-23

The story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who...

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Diary of a Lost Woman

as Meinert
Released: 1918-10-29

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Annelie

as Katasteramtsrat Reinhold Dörensen
Released: 1941-09-09

On New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated...

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Looping the Loop

as Botto
Released: 1928-09-15

Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome...

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I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity

as Pontius Pilatus
Released: 1923-12-24

From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary...

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The Wife's Crusade

as Der Idiot
Released: 1926-01-02

Directed by Martin Berger.

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The House of Lies

as Hjalmar Ekdal
Released: 1926-01-22

Adaptation of Ibsen's play Vildanden.

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Die Pagode

as Dr. Remus
Released: 1919-08-01

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The Man Without a Name

as Heinrich Martin
Released: 1932-06-30

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Lady Hamilton

as Lord William Hamilton
Released: 1921-10-19

The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.

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Jedermann Remixed

as Death (archive footage)
Released: 2011-07-31

Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete...

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The Uncanny House

as Albert von Sievers
Released: 1916-09-22

A young unemployed man gets a job as a private secretary by chance. A good salary, a first-class...

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The Fallen Star

as Lenura / Lenoir
Released: 1950-08-12

The Falling Star (German: Der Fallende Stern) is a 1950 West German drama film directed by...

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Tales of Hoffmann

as Conte Dapertutto
Released: 1916-02-26

This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by...

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Radio Magic

as Theophil Schimmelpfenning
Released: 1927-09-29

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Spiritismus

as uncredited
Released: 1919-12-31

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Everyman

as Death
Released: 1916-09-09

Based on several medieval mystery plays, including the late 15th-century English morality play...

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Das ewige Rätsel

as uncredited
Released: 1919-10-19

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Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe

as Fürst Colalto
Released: 1926-11-10

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Burg Theatre

as Friedrich Mitterer
Released: 1936-12-25

In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits...

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Die Insel der Glücklichen

as Dr. Wenning
Released: 1919-07-01

The daughter of a revolutionary runs away with a married prince.

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Fräulein Raffke

as Emil Raffke
Released: 1923-09-17

"Raffke" was a war profiteer, shifter, the white-collar criminal, who came to wealth with not...

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The Jew of Mestri

as Shylock (Mordecai)
Released: 1923-10-12

The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by...

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Die Kwannon von Okadera

as Harlander
Released: 1920-12-02

Harlander, a media mogul and war profiteer, has been told that he has six months before his...

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Prämien auf den Tod

as Dr. Schmidt
Released: 1950-01-13

In order to impress a socially superior woman with money, an unsuccessful insurance agent...

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Colomba

as Gonzales
Released: 1918-11-08

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Zirkusblut

as uncredited
Released: 1916-05-05

Georg Bertrand, a gambling addict and the son of a wealthy landowner, is kicked out of his...

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Das verwunschene Schloß

as Bauer Grödner
Released: 1919-01-13

Twenty years ago, the Count of Groningen left his ancestral castle. Since then, it is said to be...

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Ewiger Strom

as Ferryman
Released: 1920-05-01

An abandoned baby is saved by a river god. Now aged 20, she yearns to see the world outside the...

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Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon

as uncredited
Released: 1921-03-30

Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian...

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The Merry Farmer

as uncredited
Released: 1927-11-10

The Merry Farmer is based on the 1907 operetta of the same name.

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Der Trödler von Amsterdam

as Arent Bergh
Released: 1925-11-09

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Es werde Licht! 3. Teil

as Waldemar Gorsky
Released: 1918-03-24

A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.

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Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit

as Ibrahim Hulam
Released: 1927-02-01

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Der Tanz um Liebe und Glück

as uncredited
Released: 1921-10-13

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Landesschau Baden-Württemberg

as self
First aired: 1957-05-03

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