Harry Baur
Harry Baur (12 April 1880 – 8 April 1943) was a French actor. Initially a stage actor, Baur appeared in about 80 films between 1909 and 1942. He gave an acclaimed performance as the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in the biopic Beethoven's Great Love (Un grand amour de Beethoven, 1936), directed by Abel Gance, and as Jean Valjean in Raymond Bernard's version of Les Misérables (1934). He also acted in Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset's silent film, Beethoven (1909), and in La voyante (1923), Sarah Bernhardt's last film. In 1942, while in Berlin, to star in his last film Symphone eines Lebens, Baur's wife was arrested by the Gestapo and charged with espionage. His effort to secure her release led to his own arrest and torture. He was being falsely labelled as a Jew but confirmed freemason. He was released in April 1943, but died in Paris shortly after in mysterious circumstances. Academy Award-winning American actor Rod Steiger cited Baur as one of his favorite actors who had exerted a major influence on his craft and career.
Nitchevo
Who Killed Santa Claus?
(Gaspard Cornusse)
Volpone
(Volpone)
Crime and Punishment
(Porphyre)
Les Misérables
(Jean Valjean / Champmathieu)
Behold the Man
(Hérode)
Samson
(Jacques Brachart)
Criminal
(Warden Brady)
A Man and His Woman
The Secrets of the Red Sea
Paris
A Man's Neck
(Commissaire Jules Maigret)
Life Dances On
(Alain Regnault)
Hatred
(le capitaine Mollenard)
The Red Head
(Mr. Lepic)
The Clairvoyant
(Monsieur Detaille)
David Golder
(David Golder)
Moon over Morocco
(M. de Marouvelle)
Moscow Nights
(Peter Brioukow)
The Golem
(L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème)
The Rebel Son
(Taras Bulba)
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
(Ludwig van Beethoven)
African Diary
(Docteur Bourdet)
Symphonie eines Lebens
(Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor)
Flower of Paris
(Harry Podge)
The Postmaster's Daughter
(Virine, le maitre de poste)
L'Assommoir
Stars Never Die
(Self (archive footage))
Rasputin
(Rasputin)
Sarati the Terrible
(Cesar Sarati)
Taras Bulba
(Tarass Boulba)
Sins of Youth
(Monsieur Lacalade)
Le Roman de Carpentier
The Old Devil
(Guillaume Vautier)
The Three Musketeers
(M. de Tréville)
The New Men
(Bourron)
Le Patriote
(Le Tsar)
Dark Eyes
(Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff)
President Haudecoeur
(President Haudecoeur)
Monsieur Lecoq
The Gold Chignon
Rothchild
(Rothchild)
Polish Jew
(Mathias)
Moscow Nights
(Piotr Brioukow)
The Lost Course
(Le Capitaine Kell)
L'Évasion de Vidocq
(Vidocq)
La Jeunesse de Vidocq ou Comment on devient policier
(Vidocq)
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
(Self (archive footage))