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