Conrad Veidt

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1893-01-22 (50 years old)

Deathday

1943-04-03

Place of Birth

Berlin, Germany

Conrad Veidt

Biography

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 191...

Acting

1943

Casablanca

as Major Heinrich Strasser

1920

The Head of Janus

as Dr. Warren

1917

Wenn Tote sprechen

as Richard von Worth

1924

The Hands of Orlac

as Paul Orlac

1940

1943

Above Suspicion

as Hassert Seidel

1928

The Man Who Laughs

as Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie

1919

Wahnsinn

as Bankier Lorenzen

1926

The Student of Prague

as Balduin, Student

1924

Waxworks

as Ivan the Terrible

1941

A Woman's Face

as Torsten Barring

1919

Eerie Tales

as Der Tod / Various Other Roles

1942

All Through the Night

as Franz Ebbing

1974

1942

Nazi Agent

as Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner

1941

Whistling in the Dark

as Joseph Jones

1937

Dark Journey

as Baron Karl Von Marwitz

1939

The Spy in Black

as Captain Ernst Hardt

1929

The Last Performance

as Erik the Great

1940

Contraband

as Capt. Andersen

1927

The Beloved Rogue

as King Louis XI

1940

Escape

as General Kurt von Kolb

2000

The Many Faces of Dracula

as Self (archive footage)

1937

Under the Red Robe

as Gil de Berault

1932

Rome Express

as Zurta

1933

The Wandering Jew

as Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios

1934

Jew Süss

as Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer

1924

Husbands or Lovers

as Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter

1917

Fear

as Indian Priest

1921

1921

1921

1923

Wilhelm Tell

as Hermann Gessler

1933

I Was a Spy

as Commandant Oberaertz

1926

The Flight in the Night

as Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV

1933

The Only Girl

as Marquis de Pontignac

1938

The Chess Player

as Le baron de Kempelen

1919

1931

The Congress Dances

as Fürst Metternich

1932

The Black Hussar

as Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg

1922

Lucrezia Borgia

as Cesare Borgia

1926

Should We Be Silent?

as Paul Hartwig, Maler

1926

The Wife's Crusade

as Der Staatsanwalt

1934

Wilhelm Tell

as Gessler

1921

Menschen im Rausch

as Professor Munk

1930

The Love Storm

as Kingsley

1920

Patience

as Sir Percy Parker

1933

F.P.1

as Maj. Ellissen

1920

The Merry-Go-Round

as Petre Karvan

1935

King of the Damned

as Convict 83

2008

Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

as Jaffar (archival footage)

1931

Congress Dances

as Prince Metternich

1919

Prostitution

as Alfred Werner

1930

1926

Two Brothers

as Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg

1932

Rasputin, Demon of the Women

as Grigori Rasputin

1921

Landstraße und Großstadt

as Raphael, der Geiger

1930

The Last Company

as Hauptmann Burk

1931

The Man Who Committed the Murder

as Oberst Marquis de Sévigné

1919

Nocturno der Liebe

as Frederic Chopin

1919

Die Mexikanerin

as Dr. von Dossen

1938

Tempête sur l'Asie

as Erich Keith

1941

The Men in Her Life

as Stanislas Rosing

1931

The Other Side

as Hauptmann Stanhope

1927

Napoleon

as Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade

1921

Lady Hamilton

as Lord Nelson

1920

1917

Der Spion

as Steinau

1920

Kurfürstendamm

as The devil

1926

Impetuous Youth

as Renées Vater

1919

Prostitution II

as Alfred Werner

1919

1934

Bella Donna

as Mahmoud Baroudi

1920

1920

Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand

as Christian Wahnschaffe

1919

Opium

as Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.

1924

1923

Paganini

as Niccolo Paganini

1927

A Man's Past

as Paul La Roche

1918

1918

The Story of Dida Ibsen

as Erik Norrensen

1918

Colomba

as Henryk von Rhyn

1921

Liebestaumel

as Jalenko

1919

Prinz Kuckuck

as Carl Kraker

1920

Moriturus

as Wilmos, sanatorium director

1929

Das Land ohne Frauen

as Dick Ashton

1925

Le Comte Kostia

as Comte Kostia

1920

Evening – Night – Morning

as Brilburn - Maud's brother

1918

1998

Universal Horror

as (archive footage)

1920

Die Augen der Welt

as Johannes Kay

Production

1919

Wahnsinn

as Director

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