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