Harry Baur
Known for: Acting
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.
Filmography
Film
Rothchild
Rothchild
1934
Film
Crime and Punishment
Porphyre
1935
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Self (archive footage)
1978
Film
Hatred
le capitaine Mollenard
1938
Film
The New Men
Bourron
1936
Monsieur Lecoq
1914
Film
Golgotha
Hérode
1935
Film
L'Assommoir
1908
Film
Samson
Jacques Brachart
1936
L'Évasion de Vidocq
Vidocq
1910
Film
Les Misérables
Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
1934
Film
President Haudecoeur
President Haudecoeur
1940
Film
Sarati the Terrible
Cesar Sarati
1937
Film
The Red Head
Mr. Lepic
1932
Film
Rasputin
Rasputin
1938
Film
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Ludwig van Beethoven
1937
Film
Volpone
Volpone
1941
Film
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Gaspard Cornusse
1941
Film
The Postmaster's Daughter
Virine, le maitre de poste
1938
Film
The Golem
L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème
1936
Film
Flower of Paris
Harry Podge
1916
Film
Moscow Nights
Peter Brioukow
1934
Film
The Three Musketeers
M. de Tréville
1932
Film
Life Dances On
Alain Regnault
1937
Film
The Lost Course
Le Capitaine Kell
1931
Film
A Man and His Woman
Papon
1934
Film
Moon over Morocco
M. de Marouvelle
1931
Film
Moscow Nights
Piotr Brioukow
1934
Taras Bulba
Tarass Boulba
1936
Film
The Rebel Son
Taras Bulba
1938
Film
The Clairvoyant
Monsieur Detaille
1924
Film
The Old Devil
Guillaume Vautier
1933
Film
Polish Jew
Mathias
1931
Film
A Man's Head
Commissaire Jules Maigret
1933
Film
David Golder
David Golder
1931
Film
The Gold Chignon
1916
Film
Paris
1937
Film
The Patriot
Tsar Paul 1st
1938
Film
Symphonie eines Lebens
Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor
1943
Film
Dark Eyes
Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff
1935
Film
Sins of Youth
Monsieur Lacalade
1941
Film
African Diary
Docteur Bourdet
1940
Film
Criminal
Warden Brady
1933
Film
The Secrets of the Red Sea
1937
Film
Stars Never Die
Self (archive footage)
1957
Film
Le Roman de Carpentier
Film
Nitchevo
1936
La Jeunesse de Vidocq ou Comment on devient policier
Vidocq
1909