Harry Baur
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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.
Known for
Credits
L'Assommoir (1908)
Actor
Golgotha (1935)
as Hérode
Rothchild (1934)
as Rothchild
Hatred (1938)
as le capitaine Mollenard
Les Misérables (1934)
as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
Life Dances On (1937)
as Alain Regnault
The Life and Loves of Beethoven (1937)
as Ludwig van Beethoven
A Man's Head (1933)
as Commissaire Jules Maigret
L'Évasion de Vidocq (1910)
as Vidocq
A Man and His Woman (1934)
as Papon
Who Killed Santa Claus? (1941)
as Gaspard Cornusse
Stars Never Die (1957)
as Self (archive footage)
Crime and Punishment (1935)
as Porphyre
Volpone (1941)
as Volpone
The Postmaster's Daughter (1938)
as Virine, le maitre de poste
Samson (1936)
as Jacques Brachart
Monsieur Lecoq (1914)
Actor
African Diary (1940)
as Docteur Bourdet
Rasputin (1938)
as Rasputin
The Red Head (1932)
as Mr. Lepic
Moon over Morocco (1931)
as M. de Marouvelle
The New Men (1936)
as Bourron
The Secrets of the Red Sea (1937)
Actor
Moscow Nights (1934)
as Piotr Brioukow
Sarati the Terrible (1937)
as Cesar Sarati
Moscow Nights (1934)
as Peter Brioukow
Flower of Paris (1916)
as Harry Podge
The Three Musketeers (1932)
as M. de Tréville
The Lost Course (1931)
as Le Capitaine Kell
Taras Bulba (1936)
as Tarass Boulba
The Golem (1936)
as L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème
The Gold Chignon (1916)
Actor
Le Roman de Carpentier (—)
Actor
Sins of Youth (1941)
as Monsieur Lacalade
Dark Eyes (1935)
as Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff
David Golder (1931)
as David Golder
Polish Jew (1931)
as Mathias
The Old Devil (1933)
as Guillaume Vautier
Criminal (1933)
as Warden Brady
The Patriot (1938)
as Tsar Paul 1st
The Rebel Son (1938)
as Taras Bulba
President Haudecoeur (1940)
as President Haudecoeur
Symphonie eines Lebens (1943)
as Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor
Paris (1937)
Actor
La Jeunesse de Vidocq ou Comment on devient policier (1909)
as Vidocq
Nitchevo (1936)
Actor
The Clairvoyant (1924)
as Monsieur Detaille