Hans Walter Conrad Veidt (22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), The Man Who Laughs (1928), The Thief of Bagdad (1940) and Casablanca (1942). After a successful career in German silent film, where he was one of the best paid stars of Ufa, he left Germany in 1933 with his new Jewish wife after the Nazis came to power. They settled in the United Kingdom, where he participated in a number of films before emigrating to the United States around 1941. From 1916 until his death, Veidt appeared in well over 100 films. One of his earliest performances was as the murderous somnambulist Cesare in director Robert Wiene’s The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), a classic of German Expressionist cinema, with Werner Krauss and Lil Dagover. […] Finally in 1943 Veidt was once again allowed to play a good guy, a leader of the German resistance in Above Suspicion with Joan Crawford and Fred MacMurray. Sadly, it was to be Veidt’s last role. Shortly after shooting had been completed, Conrad Veidt died suddenly on a Hollywood golf course, the victim of a heart attack. He was only fifty years old. After starring in Jew Süss and stepping off German soil forever in 1933, Veidt was declared persona non grata in his home country. No official announcement was made there of his death. His own daughter, had to hear of her beloved father’s death on the radio. Read More || Edit
snowghoul
prguitarman
discoholicmusic
pixelskylines
baratheonpilled
germansingergirl
jacobvanloon
2087
kaledo-art
