Harry Baur

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1880-04-12 (63 years old)

Deathday

1943-04-08

Place of Birth

Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France

Harry Baur

Biography

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 e...

Acting

1941

Who Killed Santa Claus?

as Gaspard Cornusse

1941

Volpone

as Volpone

1935

1934

Les Misérables

as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu

1935

Behold the Man

as Hérode

1936

Samson

as Jacques Brachart

1933

Criminal

as Warden Brady

1937

1933

A Man's Neck

as Commissaire Jules Maigret

1938

Hatred

as le capitaine Mollenard

1937

Life Dances On

as Alain Regnault

1932

The Red Head

as Mr. Lepic

1924

The Clairvoyant

as Monsieur Detaille

1931

David Golder

as David Golder

1931

Moon over Morocco

as M. de Marouvelle

1934

Moscow Nights

as Peter Brioukow

1936

The Golem

as L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème

1938

The Rebel Son

as Taras Bulba

1937

The Life and Loves of Beethoven

as Ludwig van Beethoven

1940

African Diary

as Docteur Bourdet

1943

Symphonie eines Lebens

as Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor

1916

Flower of Paris

as Harry Podge

1938

The Postmaster's Daughter

as Virine, le maitre de poste

1957

Stars Never Die

as Self (archive footage)

1938

Rasputin

as Rasputin

1937

Sarati the Terrible

as Cesar Sarati

1936

Taras Bulba

as Tarass Boulba

1941

Sins of Youth

as Monsieur Lacalade

1933

The Old Devil

as Guillaume Vautier

1932

The Three Musketeers

as M. de Tréville

1936

The New Men

as Bourron

1938

Le Patriote

as Tsar Paul 1st

1935

Dark Eyes

as Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff

1940

President Haudecoeur

as President Haudecoeur

1934

Rothchild

as Rothchild

1931

Polish Jew

as Mathias

1934

Moscow Nights

as Piotr Brioukow

1931

The Lost Course

as Le Capitaine Kell

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