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Harry Baur

Actor
Born April 12, 1880Died April 8, 1943 (62 years)
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.
Known For
  • Les Misérables
  • Un carnet de bal
  • Who Killed Santa Claus?
  • A Man's Head
  • Volpone
  • Poil de carotte
  • David Golder
  • Hatred
  • The Life and Loves of Beethoven
  • Behold the Man
  • The Golem: The Legend of Prague
  • Crime and Punishment
  • Samson
  • I Stand Condemned
  • Cette vieille canaille
  • Rasputin
  • Sins of Youth
  • Les hommes nouveaux
  • The Terrible Sarati
  • Le patriote
  • Symphonie eines Lebens
  • Moscow Nights

Filmography

2017
La Continental: Le mystère Greven · as Monsieur Lacalade
1943
Symphonie eines Lebens · as Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor
1941
Sins of Youth · as Monsieur Lacalade
1941
Who Killed Santa Claus? · as Gaspard Cornusse
1941
Volpone · as Volpone
1940
Forbidden Love · as Docteur Bourdet
1938
Le patriote · as Le Tsar
1938
Rasputin · as Rasputin
1938
Hatred · as Le Capitaine Mollenard
1937
Un carnet de bal · as Alain Regnault
1937
The Terrible Sarati · as Cesar Sarati
1936
1936
The Life and Loves of Beethoven · as Ludwig Van Beethoven
1936
Tarass Boulba · as Tarass Boulba
1936
Samson · as Jacques Brachart
1936
Les hommes nouveaux · as Bourron
1936
The Golem: The Legend of Prague · as L'empereur Rodolphe Ii, Roi De Bohème
1935
Crime and Punishment · as Porphyre
1935
Behold the Man · as Hérode
1934
I Stand Condemned · as Peter Brioukow
1934
Moscow Nights · as Piotr Brioukow
1934
Les Misérables · as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
1933
Cette vieille canaille · as Guillaume Vautier
1933
A Man's Head · as Commissaire Jules Maigret
1932
Three Musketeers · as M. De Tréville
1932
Poil de carotte · as Mr. Lepic
1931
Moon Over Morocco · as M. De Marouvelle
1931
David Golder · as David Golder

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