1880-04-12 Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France
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.
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Les étoiles ne meurent jamais | Self (archive footage) | 1957-05-07 |
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Symphonie eines Lebens | Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor | 1943-04-21 |
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Volpone | Volpone | 1941-05-10 |
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L'Assassinat du Père Noël | Gaspard Cornusse | 1941-10-16 |
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Péchés de jeunesse | Monsieur Lacalade | 1941-11-16 |
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L'Homme du Niger | Docteur Bourdet | 1940-06-25 |
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Le Président Haudecœur | President Haudecoeur | 1940-04-11 |
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Nostalgie | Virine, le maitre de poste | 1938-03-03 |
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La Tragédie impériale | Rasputin | 1938-01-28 |
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Le Patriote | Tsar Paul 1st | 1938-06-05 |
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Mollenard | le capitaine Mollenard | 1938-01-26 |
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The Rebel Son | Taras Bulba | 1938-02-02 |
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Les Secrets de la mer Rouge | 1937-09-08 | |
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Un grand amour de Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven | 1937-01-15 |
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Sarati, le terrible | Cesar Sarati | 1937-07-30 |
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Un carnet de bal | Alain Regnault | 1937-09-09 |
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Paris | 1937-01-15 | |
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Tarass Boulba | Tarass Boulba | 1936-03-05 |
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Nitchevo | 1936-12-18 | |
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Le Golem | L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème | 1936-02-06 |
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Samson | Jacques Brachart | 1936-03-04 |
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Les Hommes nouveaux | Bourron | 1936-03-04 |
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Crime et Châtiment | Porphyre | 1935-05-17 |
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Golgotha | Hérode | 1935-01-01 |
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Les Yeux Noirs | Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff | 1935-09-05 |
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Les Misérables | Jean Valjean / Champmathieu | 1934-02-09 |
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Les Nuits moscovites | Piotr Brioukow | 1934-11-21 |
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Un homme en or | 1934-11-09 | |
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Rothchild | Rothchild | 1934-05-04 |
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Moscow Nights | Peter Brioukow | 1934-12-23 |
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Criminel | Warden Brady | 1933-01-06 |
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Cette vieille canaille | Guillaume Vautier | 1933-01-01 |
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La Tête d'un homme | Commissaire Jules Maigret | 1933-02-18 |
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Les Trois Mousquetaires | M. de Tréville | 1932-12-09 |
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Poil de carotte | Mr. Lepic | 1932-11-04 |
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Le Juif polonais | Mathias | 1931-09-18 |
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Les Cinq Gentlemen maudits | M. de Marouvelle | 1931-10-29 |
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Le Cap perdu | Le Capitaine Kell | 1931-04-03 |
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David Golder | David Golder | 1931-03-06 |
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La Voyante | Monsieur Detaille | 1924-10-31 |
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Fleur de Paris | Harry Podge | 1916-03-11 |
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Chignon d'or | 1916-05-15 | |
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Monsieur Lecoq | 1914-05-15 | |
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L'Évasion de Vidocq | Vidocq | 1910-01-10 |
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La Jeunesse de Vidocq ou Comment on devient policier | Vidocq | 1909-08-13 |
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L'Assommoir | 1908-12-21 | |
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