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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
January 22, 1893
Died
April 3, 1943
Place of Birth
Berlin, Germany
Also Known As
- Veidt
- Hans Walter Conrad Veidt
- Конрад Файдт
Conrad Veidt
0.5 Popularity
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 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
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7.0
Jaffar (archival footage)
Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
2008
3.5
Self (archive footage)
The Many Faces of Dracula
2000
7.1
(archive footage)
Universal Horror
1998
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7.7
Self (archive footage)
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
1974
6.1
Hassert Seidel
Above Suspicion
1943
8.1
Major Heinrich Strasser
Casablanca
1943
6.6
Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
Nazi Agent
1942
6.8
Franz Ebbing
All Through the Night
1942
6.2
Stanislas Rosing
The Men in Her Life
1941
5.8
Joseph Jones
Whistling in the Dark
1941
Credits
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Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad
as Jaffar (archival footage)
2008
7.0
The Many Faces of Dracula
as Self (archive footage)
2000
3.5
Universal Horror
as (archive footage)
1998
7.1
🎬
The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute
as Self (archive footage)
1974
7.7
Above Suspicion
as Hassert Seidel
1943
6.1
Casablanca
as Major Heinrich Strasser
1943
8.1
Nazi Agent
as Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
1942
6.6
All Through the Night
as Franz Ebbing
1942
6.8
The Men in Her Life
as Stanislas Rosing
1941
6.2
Whistling in the Dark
as Joseph Jones
1941
5.8
A Woman's Face
as Torsten Barring
1941
6.8
Escape
as General Kurt von Kolb
1940
7.4
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
as Self
1940
6.7
Contraband
as Capt. Andersen
1940
7.1
The Thief of Bagdad
as Jaffar
1940
7.1
The Spy in Black
as Captain Ernst Hardt
1939
6.4
The Chess Player
as Le baron de Kempelen
1938
4.4
Tempête sur l'Asie
as Erich Keith
1938
0.0
Dark Journey
as Baron Karl Von Marwitz
1937
6.4
Under the Red Robe
as Gil de Berault
1937
6.3
King of the Damned
as Convict 83
1935
6.0
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
as The Stranger
1935
7.6
Bella Donna
as Mahmoud Baroudi
1934
2.7
Jew Süss
as Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer
1934
5.0
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Wilhelm Tell
as Gessler
1934
5.0
The Wandering Jew
as Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios
1933
7.6
I Was a Spy
as Commandant Oberaertz
1933
5.5
F.P.1
as Maj. Ellissen
1933
6.4
The Only Girl
as Marquis de Pontignac
1933
6.0
Rome Express
as Zurta
1932
6.0
The Black Hussar
as Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg
1932
6.5
Rasputin, Demon of the Women
as Grigori Rasputin
1932
7.5
Congress Dances
as Prince Metternich
1931
0.0
The Other Side
as Hauptmann Stanhope
1931
7.0
The Congress Dances
as Fürst Metternich
1931
7.2
The Night of the Decision
as General Gregori Platoff
1931
0.0
The Man Who Committed the Murder
as Oberst Marquis de Sévigné
1931
5.2
The Love Storm
as Kingsley
1930
0.0
The Great Passion
as Himself
1930
6.5
The Last Company
as Hauptmann Burk
1930
6.0
The Last Performance
as Erik the Great
1929
6.2
Das Land ohne Frauen
as Dick Ashton
1929
0.0
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The Movie City of Hollywood
as Self
1928
6.0
The Man Who Laughs
as Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie
1928
7.3
Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
1927
5.4
A Man's Past
as Paul La Roche
1927
6.0
The Beloved Rogue
as King Louis XI
1927
6.6
Napoleon
as Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
1927
7.8
The Flight in the Night
as Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV
1926
0.0
The Student of Prague
as Balduin, Student
1926
6.6
Liebe macht blind
1926
0.0
Should We Be Silent?
as Paul Hartwig, Maler
1926
5.0
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Two Brothers
as Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg
1926
4.7
Impetuous Youth
as Renées Vater
1926
6.7
The Wife's Crusade
as Der Staatsanwalt
1926
0.0
The Ingmar Inheritance
as Hellgum
1925
7.2
Le Comte Kostia
as Comte Kostia
1925
0.0
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Schicksal
1925
0.0
Husbands or Lovers
as Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter
1924
5.3
Waxworks
as Ivan the Terrible
1924
6.4
The Hands of Orlac
as Paul Orlac
1924
6.8
The Film in the Film
as Self
1924
7.5
Don Carlos und Elisabeth
as Don Carlos
1924
6.0
Wilhelm Tell
as Hermann Gessler
1923
5.2
Paganini
as Niccolo Paganini
1923
0.0
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Glanz gegen Glück
1923
0.0
Lucrezia Borgia
as Cesare Borgia
1922
4.4
The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
as Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
1921
5.9
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
as Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
1921
5.6
Lady Hamilton
as Lord Nelson
1921
5.8
Danton
as Minor Role (rumored)
1921
5.7
Landstraße und Großstadt
as Raphael, der Geiger
1921
0.0
Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
as Christian Wahnschaffe
1921
0.0
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Der Leidensweg der Inge Krafft
1921
0.0
Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
as Hektor Dalmore
1921
6.0
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Liebestaumel
as Jalenko
1921
4.0
Journey into the Night
as Der Maler
1921
5.9
People in Ecstasy
as Professor Munk
1921
0.0
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
as Tossi
1921
0.0
Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
as Ivan
1921
0.0
The Count of Cagliostro
as Minister
1920
0.0
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
as Christian Wahnschaffe
1920
0.0
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Manolescu's Memoirs
as Manolescu
1920
0.0
Evening – Night – Morning
as Brilburn - Maud's brother
1920
0.0
Moriturus
as Wilmos, sanatorium director
1920
0.0
The Head of Janus
as Dr. Warren
1920
0.0
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Künstlerlaunen
1920
0.0
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Kurfürstendamm
as The devil
1920
0.0
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Die Augen der Welt
as Johannes Kay
1920
0.0
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Patience
as Sir Percy Parker
1920
0.0
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Die Nacht auf Goldenhall
1920
0.0
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
as Cesare
1920
7.9
The Merry-Go-Round
as Petre Karvan
1920
5.0
Figures of the Night
as The clown
1920
0.0
Eerie Tales
as Der Tod / Various Other Roles
1919
5.3
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Wahnsinn
as Bankier Lorenzen
1919
0.0
Prinz Kuckuck
as Carl Kraker
1919
0.0
Prostitution II
as Alfred Werner
1919
0.0
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Die Okarina
1919
0.0
Different from the Others
as Paul Körner
1919
7.0
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Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod
1919
0.0
Around the World in 80 Days
as Phineas Fogg
1919
5.5
Prostitution
as Alfred Werner
1919
0.0
The Japanese Woman
1919
0.0
Opium
as Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.
1919
6.2
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The Mexican
as Dr. von Dossen
1919
0.0
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Nocturno der Liebe
as Frederic Chopin
1919
0.0
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Opfer der Gesellschaft
1919
0.0
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
as Doktor Köstling
1918
0.0
The Story of Dida Ibsen
as Erik Norrensen
1918
0.0
Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
as Kramer
1918
0.0
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
as Doktor Köstling
1918
0.0
Colomba
as Henryk von Rhyn
1918
0.0
Diary of a Lost Woman
as Dr. Julius
1918
0.0
Not of the Woman Born
as Satan
1918
0.0
Das Dreimäderlhaus
as Schober
1918
0.0
The Mystery of Bangalore
as Dinja
1918
0.0
Fear
as Indian Priest
1917
5.4
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Der Spion
as Steinau
1917
0.0
Wenn Tote sprechen
as Richard von Worth
1917
0.0
Der Weg des Todes
1917
0.0