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Conrad Veidt is a Actor and Director British born on 22 january 1893 at Berlin (German)
Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Man Who Laughs (1928), and, after being forced to immigrate to Britain by the rise of Nazism in Germany, his English-speaking roles in The Thief of Bagdad (1940), and, in Hollywood, Casablanca (1942). After a successful career in German silent film, where he was one of the best-paid stars of Ufa, he left 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 before immigrating to the United States around 1941.
Veidt's second wife Felicitas Radke was from an aristocratic German family; they married in 1923. Their daughter, Vera Viola Maria, called Viola, was born 10 August 1925.
He last married Ilona Prager, a Hungarian Jew called Lily, in 1933; they were together until his death.
He lent his considerable fortune to the British Government and donated large amounts of his film salaries to help with the British war effort.
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Birth name Hans Walter Conrad Weidt
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 22 january 1893 at Berlin (German)
Death 3 april 1943 (at 50 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Nationality United-kingdom
Birth 22 january 1893 at Berlin (German)
Death 3 april 1943 (at 50 years) at Hollywood (USA)
Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Man Who Laughs (1928), and, after being forced to immigrate to Britain by the rise of Nazism in Germany, his English-speaking roles in The Thief of Bagdad (1940), and, in Hollywood, Casablanca (1942). After a successful career in German silent film, where he was one of the best-paid stars of Ufa, he left 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 before immigrating to the United States around 1941.
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Conrad Veidt married three times: he first married Augusta Holl, a cabaret entertainer known as "Gussy", on 18 June 1918. They divorced the following autumn. Gussy later married German actor Emil Jannings.Veidt's second wife Felicitas Radke was from an aristocratic German family; they married in 1923. Their daughter, Vera Viola Maria, called Viola, was born 10 August 1925.
He last married Ilona Prager, a Hungarian Jew called Lily, in 1933; they were together until his death.
He lent his considerable fortune to the British Government and donated large amounts of his film salaries to help with the British war effort.
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Napoleon (2024)
, 5h30Directed by Abel Gance
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes French war films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Antonin Artaud, Edmond van Daële, Abel Gance, Suzanne Bianchetti
Roles Donatien Alphonse François, Marquis de Sade
Rating81%
The scenario of the film as originally written by Gance was published in 1927 by Librairie Plon. Much of the scenario describes scenes that were rejected during initial editing, and do not appear in any known version of the film. The following plot includes only those scenes that are known to have been included in some version of the film. Not every scene described below can be viewed today.
Under the Red Robe (1952)
Directed by Victor Sjöström
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Adventure, Historical, Romance
Themes Histoire de France
Actors Conrad Veidt, Annabella, Raymond Massey, Romney Brent, Wyndham Goldie, Lawrence Grant
Roles Gil de Berault
Rating59%
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Casablanca (1943)
, 1h42Directed by Michael Curtiz
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Crime, Melodrama, Romance
Themes Films set in Africa, Political films, Films based on plays
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Sydney Greenstreet
Roles Major Heinrich Strasser
Rating84%
Set in December, 1941, American expatriate Rick Blaine is the proprietor of an upscale nightclub and gambling den in Casablanca. "Rick's Café Américain" attracts a varied clientele: Vichy French, Italian, and German officials; refugees desperate to reach the still neutral United States; and those who prey on them. Although Rick professes to be neutral in all matters, it is later revealed he ran guns to Ethiopia during its war with Italy and fought on the Loyalist side against the fascist Nationalists in the Spanish Civil War.
Above Suspicion (1943)
, 1h30Directed by Richard Thorpe
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Basil Rathbone, Conrad Veidt, Reginald Owen, Richard Ainley
Roles Hassert Seidel
Rating64%
In the spring of 1939 in England, Oxford University professor Richard Myles (Fred MacMurray) and his new bride Frances (Joan Crawford) decide to honeymoon on the continent. Because they are American tourists and therefore "above suspicion," they find themselves commissioned by the British secret service to find an apparently missing scientist who has developed a countermeasure against a new Nazi secret weapon, a magnetic sea mine. Without knowing his name, what he looks like, or where to find him, the couple look upon the search as adventurous and cross Europe seeking clues from clandestine contacts.
All Through the Night (1942)
, 1h47Directed by Vincent Sherman
Origin USA
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Spy films, Political films, Gangster films
Actors Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell, Peter Lorre, Frank McHugh
Roles Franz Ebbing
Rating70%
An elderly baker named Miller (Ludwig Stossel) is murdered by a sinister stranger (Peter Lorre). A trail leads on to a nightclub singer, Leda Hamilton (Kaaren Verne) who reveals that she and Miller have been in thrall to an organization of Nazi fifth columnists led by Ebbing (Conrad Veidt). She is helped by a well-meaning sports promoter, Alfred "Gloves" Donahue (Humphrey Bogart), who himself is suspected of murdering a nightclub owner (Edward Brophy), and has to track down those responsible to prove his innocence.
Nazi Agent (1942)
, 1h23Directed by Jules Dassin
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Spy, Crime
Themes Spy films, Films about families, Political films
Actors Conrad Veidt, Frank Reicher, Ann Ayars, Dorothy Tree, Ivan F. Simpson, William Tannen
Roles Otto Becker / Baron Hugo von Detner
Rating67%
The U.S. has not yet entered World War II when kindly stamp dealer Otto Becker (Conrad Veidt) is unexpectedly visited by his twin brother, Baron Hugo von Detner (also played by Veidt), the new German consul to the U.S. and one of the leaders of a spy ring engaged in sabotage. The brothers have not seen each other in years, but now von Detner wants to use Becker's shop to transmit and receive secret messages. Becker refuses, until von Detner threatens to have him deported back to Germany as an illegal immigrant and reveals that Becker's assistant, Miss Harper (Dorothy Tree), is actually a German agent.
The Men in Her Life (1941)
, 1h29Directed by Gregory Ratoff
Origin USA
Genres Drama
Actors Loretta Young, Conrad Veidt, Dean Jagger, Eugenie Leontovich, Shepperd Strudwick, Otto Kruger
Roles Stanislas Rosing
Rating60%
A Woman's Face (1941)
, 1h46Directed by George Cukor, John Waters
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Théâtre, Films based on plays
Actors Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Reginald Owen, Albert Bassermann, Marjorie Main
Roles Torsten Barring
Rating71%
Set in Sweden, the film is shown in flashbacks in the course of a trial in which a young woman with a half-hidden face, Anna Holm, is charged with murder. The events, as described by the witnesses, begin years before when aristocrat Torsten Barring hosts a party at a tavern. The guests include Vera, the faithless wife of noted plastic surgeon Gustaf Segert. When the tavern refuses to extend his credit, Torsten meets the proprietress Anna — whose face is badly scarred from a fire 22 years ago caused by her father. Torsten treats Anna as if she is beautiful and charming rather than scarred and unpleasant. Anna is suspicious, and Torsten implies that he may need her help in the future.
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
, 1h18Directed by S. Sylvan Simon
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Crime, Romance
Themes Films based on plays
Actors Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford, Virginia Grey, Rags Ragland, Henry O'Neill
Roles Joseph Jones
Rating66%
Wally Benton (Red Skelton) is the star of a mystery series on radio, The Fox, which he writes himself, inventing for each episode a crime that has "only one loophole" so the criminal can be caught. He is about to elope with Carol Lambert (Ann Rutherford), but his agent (Eve Arden) tells him he must go out with the sponsor's daughter, Fran Post (Virginia Grey), or risk his show being canceled.
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
, 1h46Directed by Michael Powell, Jack Clayton, Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Ludwig Berger, Ludwig Berger
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Science fiction, Fantastic, Fantasy, Action, Adventure, Romance
Themes Children's films
Actors Conrad Veidt, Sabu, John Justin, June Duprez, Rex Ingram, Glynis Johns
Roles Jaffar
Rating73%
The film's backstory is told in flashback, mimicking the style of the Arabian Nights.
Contraband (1940)
, 1h32Directed by Michael Powell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres War, Thriller, Adventure, Spy, Romance
Themes Spy films, Political films
Actors Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight, Charles Victor
Roles Capt. Andersen
Rating68%
It is November 1939: the Phoney War-stage of the World War II. Denmark is still neutral, but (Danish) Captain Andersen (Conrad Veidt) and his freighter Helvig are stopped in the English Channel by Lt. Commanders Ashton (Joss Ambler) and Ellis (Harold Warrender) for a cargo inspection in a British Contraband Control Port.
Escape (1940)
, 1h38Directed by Mervyn LeRoy
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Political films
Actors Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Alla Nazimova, Felix Bressart, Philip Dorn
Roles General Kurt von Kolb
Rating69%
Famous German stage actress Emmy Ritter (Alla Nazimova) is held in a Nazi concentration camp. She is scheduled to be executed soon, but the sympathetic camp doctor, Ditten (Philip Dorn), has been a fan since childhood and offers to deliver a letter from her to her children...afterwards.
, 11minutesOrigin USA
Genres Documentary
Themes Documentary films about business, Documentary films about the film industry, Documentary films about cities
Actors Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Clark Gable, Greer Garson, W. S. Van Dyke, Hedy Lamarr
Roles Self
Rating54%
The film starts with a brief introduction to the work of Thomas A. Edison and a clip from William K.L. Dickson's Dickson Experimental Sound Film (c. 1894). Douglas Shearer then presents a behind the scenes look at the filming of W.S. Van Dyke's Bitter Sweet (1940) featuring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy to explain how the sound is recorded. A scene from King Vidor's Comrade X (1940) featuring Clark Gable and Hedy Lamarr is used to demonstrate the final result. The film concludes with a montage from trailers for coming MGM pictures and a Technicolor screen test of Greer Garson for Mervyn LeRoy's Blossoms in the Dust (1941).
The Spy in Black (1939)
, 1h22Directed by Michael Powell
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, War, Thriller, Spy
Themes Spy films, Seafaring films, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films
Actors Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring, Sebastian Shaw, June Duprez, Athole Stewart
Roles Captain Ernst Hardt
Rating68%
Captain Hardt (Conrad Veidt), a World War I German U-boat commander, is ordered to lead a mission to attack the British Fleet at Scapa Flow. He sneaks ashore on the Orkney Islands to meet his contact, Frau Tiel (Valerie Hobson). Tiel has taken over the identity of local schoolteacher, Anne Burnett (June Duprez), who had been kidnapped by German agents. Hardt finds himself attracted to her, but Tiel shows no interest. The Germans are aided by a disgraced Royal Navy officer, the former Commander Ashington (Sebastian Shaw) who, according to Tiel, has agreed to aid the Germans after losing his command due to drunkenness, and Tiel implies that she has slept with Ashington to obtain his cooperation.
The Chess Player (1938)
, 1h30Directed by Jean Dréville, Jacques Vitry
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical
Themes Jeu, Films about chess
Actors Françoise Rosay, Conrad Veidt, Micheline Francey, Gaston Modot, Jacques Grétillat, Bernard Lancret
Roles Le baron de Kempelen
Rating66%
Un jeune patriote polonais nommé Boleslas, dont la tête est mise à prix, tente de s'enfuir des frontières russes, dissimulé dans un des automates du baron de Kempelen. Un agent de Catherine II de Russie, qui a compris le subterfuge, achète l'automate pour le livrer à l'impératrice. Celui-ci sera amené à se trahir au cours d'une partie d'échecs.