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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.
Most Popular Conrad Veidt Trailers
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29 August 1919
About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.
24 October 1940
This short documentary, presented and directed by MGM sound engineer Douglas Shearer, goes behind the scenes to look at how the sound portion of a talking picture is created.
01 October 1918
This film is believed to be lost.
15 January 1943
In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with unforeseen complications.
23 January 1931
The story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English consul (Heinrich George) and his attractive wife who is treated badly.
08 November 1918
A young Jewish woman is pressured to marry a wealthy man even though she is in love with someone else.
12 November 1920
Weltbrand is the first part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.
21 November 1930
This is the German-language version of the British film The Love Storm (1931).
17 September 1931
German language version of The Virtuous Sin (1930).
01 March 1942
Humble stamp dealer Otto Becker has little to do with international politics, so when he receives a surprise visit from his estranged twin brother and Nazi spy, Baron Hugo von Detner, his world is thrown into turmoil.
20 March 1919
Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.
20 April 1938
An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .
31 May 1937
In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about growing opposition from the Huguenots in the south.
13 December 1926
Based on the play Henry IV by Luigi Pirandello. Conrad Veidt plays Count di Nolli, a nobleman who, after a head injury, imagines he is the medieval emperor.
23 September 1920
A doctor who cannot figure out what is wrong with his patient refers him to a detective, whom he hopes will be able to discern the cause of his mysterious illness.
01 September 1935
The tenants of an old London boarding house spend their time in petty bickering and sniping until a mysterious stranger arrives at their door.
22 February 1933
A dashing marquis bends from his horse when he discovers a lost garter in the woods and falls. During his delirium he is serenaded by a little hairdresser.
20 October 1922
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others.
27 February 1920
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through.
19 February 1932
The demonic Rasputin is poisoned but survives to continue seducing in evil ways, in this historical thriller.
13 October 1934
A historical satire critical of the rising tide of Anti-Semitism in Germany. Based on the novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger, Jew Süss is the story of life in the 18th-century Jewish ghetto of Württemberg.
01 October 1927
Imprisoned at the French garrison on the Isle of St. Noir for putting to death a patient suffering from an incurable illness, Dr.
22 August 1923
William Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell) is a 1923 German silent adventure film directed by Rudolf Dworsky and Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Hans Marr, Conrad Veidt and Erich Kaiser-Titz.
30 October 1941
A circus performer becomes a ballerina and then begins her life of a career versus marriage and a home-life.
08 August 1941
Radio crime show host 'The Fox' along with his fiancée and ex-girlfriend are kidnapped by a larcenous cult who demand that he help them plan a perfect murder.
01 January 2000
Hosted by Christopher Lee, this documentary examines the different actors who have portrayed Dracula over the years.
10 January 1927
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
19 February 1940
When Prince Ahmad is blinded and cast out of Bagdad by the nefarious Jaffar, he joins forces with the scrappy thief Abu to win back his royal place, as well as the heart of a beautiful princess.
04 September 1933
During World War I, a young nurse in a hospital in German-occupied Belgium is secretly feeding military information to the British.
12 December 1918
Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor.
10 January 1942
Broadway gamblers stumble across a plan by Nazi saboteurs to blow up an American battleship.
26 December 1925
When his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young Ingmar decides to give up his career as the village teacher and to reclaim the land and farm of his fathers.
31 March 1923
Historical film about Italian musician Niccolo Paganini.
31 October 1932
The theft of a famous painting leads to murder and many suspects on a plush train speeding from Paris to Rome.
13 October 1929
A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
28 May 1919
Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted.
01 November 1940
An American goes to pre-war Germany to find his mother and discovers her in a concentration camp. With the help of an American-born widowed countess he seeks to engineer her escape.
04 November 1928
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
22 April 1921
Two poor musicians rise from rags to riches. Money, fame and their love for the same woman begin to crumble their friendship, revealing the true natures of both men--one noble and kind, the other a greedy, ruthless beast.
19 October 1921
The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.
15 November 1933
Old Jerusalem: Matathias, spiteful over his lover's illness, spits on Jesus along the road to Calvary, and is cursed to live endlessly until His return.
30 September 1929
A group of 413 women answer an ad looking for British women to sail to and marry miners in Australia.
11 May 1940
During early World War II, a Danish sea captain, delayed in a British port, tangles with German spies.
09 May 1941
A female blackmailer with a disfiguring facial scar meets a plastic surgeon who offers her the possibility of looking like a normal woman.
13 November 1924
A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper.
24 September 1924
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.
05 November 1919
A demon, a reaper, and the ghost of a prostitute read gothic short stories and act them out.
