Conrad Veidt
Actor
Born January 22, 1893 in Berlin, Germany
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.
Filmography
Vito
Self (archive)
The Many Faces of Dracula
Self (archive footage)
Universal Horror
(archive footage)
Above Suspicion
Hassert Seidel
Casablanca
Major Heinrich Strasser
Nazi Agent
Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
All Through the Night
Franz Ebbing
The Men in Her Life
Stanislas Rosing
Whistling in the Dark
Joseph Jones
A Woman's Face
Torsten Barring
Escape
General Kurt von Kolb
A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound
Self
Contraband
Capt. Andersen
The Thief of Bagdad
Jaffar
The Spy in Black
Captain Ernst Hardt
The Chess Player
Le baron de Kempelen
Tempête sur l'Asie
Erich Keith
Dark Journey
Baron Karl Von Marwitz
Under the Red Robe
Gil de Berault
King of the Damned
Convict 83
The Passing of the Third Floor Back
The Stranger
Bella Donna
Mahmoud Baroudi
Jew Süss
Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer
The Wandering Jew
Matathias / The Unknown Knight / Dr Matteos Battadios
I Was a Spy
Commandant Oberaertz
F.P.1
Maj. Ellissen
The Only Girl
Marquis de Pontignac
Rome Express
Zurta
The Black Hussar
Captain Hansgeorg von Hochberg
Rasputin, Demon of the Women
Grigori Rasputin
The Other Side
Hauptmann Stanhope
Congress Dances
Fürst Metternich
The Night of the Decision
General Gregori Platoff
The Man Who Committed the Murder
Oberst Marquis de Sévigné
The Love Storm
Kingsley
The Great Passion
Himself
The Last Company
Hauptmann Burk
The Last Performance
Erik the Great
Das Land ohne Frauen
Dick Ashton
The Man Who Laughs
Gwynplaine / Lord Clancharlie
Laws of Love: Innocently Outlawed!
A Man's Past
Paul La Roche
The Beloved Rogue
King Louis XI
Napoleon
Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
The Flight in the Night
Count di Nolli, Heinrich IV
The Student of Prague
Balduin, Student
Love Is Blind
Should We Be Silent?
Paul Hartwig, Maler
Impetuous Youth
Renées Vater
The Wife's Crusade
Der Staatsanwalt
The Ingmar Inheritance
Hellgum
Le Comte Kostia
Comte Kostia
Husbands or Lovers
Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter
Waxworks
Ivan the Terrible
The Hands of Orlac
Paul Orlac
The Film in the Film
Self
Don Carlos und Elisabeth
Don Carlos
Wilhelm Tell
Hermann Gessler
Paganini
Niccolo Paganini
Lucrezia Borgia
Cesare Borgia
The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur
Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi
Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur
Lady Hamilton
Lord Nelson
Danton
Minor Role (rumored)
Landstraße und Großstadt
Raphael, der Geiger
Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
Christian Wahnschaffe
Die Liebschaften des Hektor Dalmore
Hektor Dalmore
Journey into the Night
Der Maler
People in Ecstasy
Professor Munk
Das Geheimnis von Bombay
Tossi
Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer
Ivan
The Count of Cagliostro
Minister
Christian Wahnschaffe I: Weltbrand
Christian Wahnschaffe
Evening – Night – Morning
Brilburn - Maud's brother
Moriturus
Wilmos, sanatorium director
The Head of Janus
Dr. Warren
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Cesare
The Merry-Go-Round
Petre Karvan
Figures of the Night
The clown
Eerie Tales
Der Tod / Various Other Roles
Prinz Kuckuck
Carl Kraker
Prostitution II
Alfred Werner
Different from the Others
Paul Körner
Around the World in 80 Days
Phineas Fogg
Prostitution
Alfred Werner
The Japanese Woman
Opium
Dr. Richard Armstrong Jr.
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 2. Henriette Jacoby
Doktor Köstling
The Story of Dida Ibsen
Erik Norrensen
Es werde Licht! 4. Teil: Sündige Mütter
Kramer
Colomba
Henryk von Rhyn
Jettchen Geberts Geschichte. 1. Jettchen Gebert
Doktor Köstling
Diary of a Lost Woman
Dr. Julius
Not of the Woman Born
Satan
Das Dreimäderlhaus
Schober
The Mystery of Bangalore
Dinja
Fear
Indian Priest
Wenn Tote sprechen
Richard von Worth
Der Weg des Todes