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.

Фільмографія

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

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (7)

• 2011Vito — Self (archive footage)
• 2000The Many Faces of Dracula — Self (archive footage)
• 1974The Horror Hall of Fame: A Monster Salute — Self (archive footage)
• 1940A New Romance of Celluloid: The Miracle of Sound — Self
• 1930The Great Desire — Himself
• 1928The Movie City of Hollywood — Self
• 1924The Film in the Film — Self