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.
Acted in
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978
as Self (archive footage)
Stars Never Die
1957
as Self (archive footage)
Symphonie eines Lebens
1943
as Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor
Sins of Youth
1941
as Monsieur Lacalade
Who Killed Santa Claus?
1941
as Gaspard Cornusse
Volpone
1941
as Volpone
African Diary
1940
as Docteur Bourdet
President Haudecoeur
1940
as President Haudecoeur
Le Patriote
1938
as Le Tsar
The Postmaster's Daughter
1938
as Virine, le maitre de poste
The Rebel Son
1938
as Taras Bulba
Rasputin
1938
as Rasputin
Hatred
1938
as le capitaine Mollenard
Life Dances On
1937
as Alain Regnault
The Secrets of the Red Sea
1937
Sarati the Terrible
1937
as Cesar Sarati
Paris
1937
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
1937
as Ludwig van Beethoven
Nitchevo
1936
Taras Bulba
1936
as Tarass Boulba
Samson
1936
as Jacques Brachart
The New Men
1936
as Bourron
The Golem
1936
as L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème
Moscow Nights
1935
as Peter Brioukow
Dark Eyes
1935
as Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff
Crime and Punishment
1935
as Porphyre
Golgotha
1935
as Hérode
Moscow Nights
1934
as Piotr Brioukow
A Man and His Woman
1934
Rothchild
1934
as Rothchild
Les Misérables
1934
as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
A Man's Neck
1933
as Commissaire Jules Maigret
Criminal
1933
as Warden Brady
The Old Devil
1933
as Guillaume Vautier
The Three Musketeers
1932
as M. de Tréville
The Red Head
1932
as Mr. Lepic
Moon over Morocco
1931
as M. de Marouvelle
Polish Jew
1931
as Mathias
The Lost Course
1931
as Le Capitaine Kell
David Golder
1931
as David Golder
The Clairvoyant
1924
as Monsieur Detaille
The Gold Chignon
1916
Flower of Paris
1916
as Harry Podge
Monsieur Lecoq
1914
L'Évasion de Vidocq
1910
as Vidocq
La Jeunesse de Vidocq ou Comment on devient policier
1909
as Vidocq
L'Assommoir
1908
