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Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was a German-British-American 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 films, where he was one of the best-paid stars of UFA, he and his new Jewish wife Ilona Prager were forced to leave Germany in 1933 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 led to him having the role of Major Strasser in Casablanca (1942).
Birth Name
Hans Walter Conrad Weidt
Born
Sunday, 22 January 1893
Died
Saturday, 03 April 1943
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses | Self | 2015 |
| Caligari - Wie der Horror ins Kino kam | Cesare | 2014 |
| Vito | Paul Körner | 2011 |
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Cesare | 2007 |
| The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster | Cesare | 1999 |
| Universal Horror | (archive footage) | 1998 |
| Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood | Various roles | 1995 |
| Kintopp Kintopp | Cesare | 1981 |
| Arena | Captain Ernst Hardt | 1975 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Cesare (clip from Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)), Ebbing (clip from All Through the Night (1942)) | 1963 |
Actor Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| From Caligari to Hitler: German Cinema in the Age of the Masses | Self | 2015 |
| Caligari - Wie der Horror ins Kino kam | Cesare | 2014 |
| Vito | Paul Körner | 2011 |
| Cinemassacre's Monster Madness | Cesare | 2007 |
| The Frankenstein Files: How Hollywood Made a Monster | Cesare | 1999 |
| Universal Horror | (archive footage) | 1998 |
| Cinema Europe: The Other Hollywood | Various roles | 1995 |
| Kintopp Kintopp | Cesare | 1981 |
| Arena | Captain Ernst Hardt | 1975 |
| Hollywood and the Stars | Cesare (clip from Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920)), Ebbing (clip from All Through the Night (1942)) | 1963 |
| It Only Happened Once | Self - Conrad Veidt | 1958 |
| Above Suspicion | Hassert Seidel | 1943 |
| Casablanca | Major Heinrich Strasser | 1943 |
| Nazi Agent | Baron Hugo Von Detner / Otto Becker | 1942 |
| All Through the Night | Ebbing / Franz Ebbing | 1942 |
| The Men in Her Life | Stanislas Rosing | 1941 |
| Whistling in the Dark | Joseph Jones | 1941 |
| A Woman's Face | Torsten Barring | 1941 |
| The Thief of Bagdad | Jaffar | 1940 |
| Escape | General Kurt von Kolb | 1940 |
| The Miracle of Sound | Self | 1940 |
| Blackout | Capt. Andersen | 1940 |
| The Spy in Black | Captain Ernst Hardt | 1939 |
| The Devil Is an Empress | Le baron de Kempelen | 1938 |
| Tempête sur l'Asie | Erich Keith | 1938 |
| Under the Red Robe | Gil de Berault | 1937 |
| Dark Journey | Baron Karl Von Marwitz | 1937 |
| King of the Damned | Convict 83 | 1936 |
| The Passing of the Third Floor Back | The Stranger | 1935 |
| Bella Donna | Mahmoud Baroudi | 1934 |
| Power | Josef Süss Oppenheimer / Josef 'Jew Süss' Oppenheimer | 1934 |
| The Legend of William Tell | Gessler / Heinrich Gessler | 1934 |
| The Wandering Jew | Matathias | 1933 |
| I Was a Spy | Commandant Oberaertz | 1933 |
| F. P. 1 Doesn't Answer | Maj. Ellissen | 1933 |
| Ich und die Kaiserin | Marquis de Pontignac | 1933 |
| Rome Express | Zurta | 1932 |
| Der schwarze Husar | Rittmeister Hansgeorg von Hochberg | 1932 |
| Die andere Seite | Hauptmann Stanhope | 1931 |
| Congress Dances | Prince Metternich / Fürst Metternich | 1931 |
| Der Mann, der den Mord beging | Marquis de Sévigné / Oberst Marquis de Sévigné | 1931 |
| The Love Storm | Kingsley | 1930 |
| The Last Performance | Erik the Great / Erik Goff aka Erik the Great | 1929 |
| The Man Who Laughs | Lord Clancharlie / Gwynplaine | 1928 |
| The Beloved Rogue | King Louis XI | 1927 |
| The Student of Prague | Balduin / Balduin, ein Student | 1926 |
| Two Brothers | Wenzel Schellenberg / Michael Schellenberg | 1926 |
| Kreuzzug des Weibes | Der Staatsanwalt | 1926 |
| Ingmarsarvet | Hellgum | 1925 |
| Husbands or Lovers | Der Liebhaber, ein Dichter | 1924 |
| Waxworks | Ivan the Terrible | 1924 |
| The Hands of Orlac | Paul Orlac | 1924 |
| Wilhelm Tell | Hermann Gessler | 1923 |
| Lucrezia Borgia | Cesare Borgia | 1922 |
| Mysteries of India, Part II: Above All Law | Ayan III, the Maharajah of Bengal / Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur | 1921 |
| Mysteries of India, Part I: Truth | The Majarajah of Bengal / Ayan III / Fürst von Eschnapur / Ayan, Majarajah of Eschnapur | 1921 |
| Danton | 1921 | |
| Desire | Ivan / Ivan - A young Russian dancer | 1921 |
| Journey into the Night | Der Maler | 1921 |
| The Head of Janus | Dr. Warren / Mr. O'Connor | 1920 |
| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Cesare | 1920 |
| Eerie Tales | Der Tod / Der Tod (framing story) / The stranger (ep.1) / The assassin (ep.2) / Traveller (ep.3) / Club president (ep.4) / Husband (ep.5) / Various Other Roles | 1919 |
| Wahnsinn | Bankier Lorenzen | 1919 |
| Different from the Others | Paul Körner | 1919 |
| Furcht | Indian Priest | 1917 |
Director Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Wahnsinn | 1919 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| Wahnsinn | 1919 |
