Conrad Veidt

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	Acting
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Birthday	1893-01-22
Place of Birth	Berlin, Germany
Also Known As	Veidt, Hans Walter Conrad Veidt, Конрад Файдт,

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Casablanca

The Head of Janus

Wenn Tote sprechen

The Hands of Orlac

Desire: The Tragedy of a Dancer

The Thief of Bagdad

Above Suspicion

The Man Who Laughs

The Student of Prague

Wahnsinn

Waxworks

A Woman's Face

Eerie Tales

All Through the Night

The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute

Nazi Agent

Schicksal

Whistling in the Dark

Dark Journey

The Spy in Black

Liebe macht blind

The Last Performance

The Night of the Decision

Contraband

The Beloved Rogue

The Passing of the Third Floor Back

Escape

The Many Faces of Dracula

Under the Red Robe

Rome Express

The Wandering Jew

Jew Süss

The Ingmar Inheritance

Husbands or Lovers

Fear

Journey into the Night

The Indian Tomb, Part I: The Mission of the Yoghi

The Indian Tomb, Part II: The Tiger of Eschnapur

Wilhelm Tell

I Was a Spy

The Flight in the Night

The Only Girl

The Chess Player

Different from the Others

The Congress Dances

The Black Hussar

Lucrezia Borgia

Should We Be Silent?

The Wife's Crusade

Wilhelm Tell

Menschen im Rausch

The Love Storm

Patience

F.P.1

The Merry-Go-Round

King of the Damned

Not of the Woman Born

Visual Effects: The Thief of Bagdad

Congress Dances

Prostitution

The Great Passion

Two Brothers

Rasputin, Demon of the Women

Landstraße und Großstadt

The Last Company

The Man Who Committed the Murder

Peer Gynt - 2. Teil: Peer Gynts Wanderjahre und Tod

Die Mexikanerin

Die Japanerin

Nocturno der Liebe

Opfer der Gesellschaft

Tempête sur l'Asie

The Men in Her Life

A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound

The Other Side

Napoleon

Lady Hamilton

Figures of the Night

Der Spion