Harry Baur
Harry Baur is known for Les Misérables (1934), Life Dances On (1937), A Man's Head (1933).
Biography
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.
Questions about Harry Baur
How many Harry Baur films are in the catalogue?
The CineQuiz catalogue has 20 films with Harry Baur, from 1924 to 1943.
What was the first Harry Baur film?
The first Harry Baur film in the catalogue is Les Misérables, from 1934.
People data: TMDb.
Known for
Full filmography
47 films — 20 in the catalogue
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9.0 Les étoiles ne meurent jamais
1957 · Self (archive footage)
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7.0 Symphonie eines Lebens
1943 · Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor
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5.7 Sins of Youth
1941 · Monsieur Lacalade
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6.8 Who Killed Santa Claus?
1941 · Gaspard Cornusse
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6.8 Volpone
1941 · Volpone
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6.4 L'Homme du Niger
1940 · Docteur Bourdet
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7.5 President Haudecoeur
1940 · President Haudecoeur
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7.0 Le Patriote
1938 · Tsar Paul 1st
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7.0 Nostalgie
1938 · Virine, le maitre de poste
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8.0 The Rebel Son
1938 · Taras Bulba
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5.8 La Tragédie impériale
1938 · Rasputin
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7.3 Hatred
1938 · le capitaine Mollenard
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7.0 Life Dances On
1937 · Alain Regnault
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10.0 Les Secrets de la mer Rouge
1937
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7.0 Sarati, le terrible
1937 · Cesar Sarati
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7.0 Paris
1937
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6.8 The Life and Loves of Beethoven
1937 · Ludwig van Beethoven
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10.0 Nitchevo
1936
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8.0 Taras Bulba
1936 · Tarass Boulba
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5.8 Samson
1936 · Jacques Brachart
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6.4 Les Hommes nouveaux
1936 · Bourron
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5.2 The Golem
1936 · L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème
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10.0 Dark Eyes
1935 · Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff
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7.0 Crime and Punishment
1935 · Porphyre
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7.4 Golgotha
1935 · Hérode
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5.9 Moscow Nights
1934 · Peter Brioukow
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4.8 Les Nuits moscovites
1934 · Piotr Brioukow
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10.0 Un homme en or
1934 · Papon
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8.0 Rothchild
1934 · Rothchild
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7.9 Les Misérables
1934 · Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
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6.1 A Man's Head
1933 · Commissaire Jules Maigret
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8.0 Criminel
1933 · Warden Brady
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5.6 Cette vieille canaille
1933 · Guillaume Vautier
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6.3 Les Trois Mousquetaires
1932 · M. de Tréville
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6.7 The Red Head
1932 · Mr. Lepic
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6.2 Les Cinq Gentlemen maudits
1931 · M. de Marouvelle
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9.0 Le Juif polonais
1931 · Mathias
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8.0 Le Cap perdu
1931 · Le Capitaine Kell
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6.5 David Golder
1931 · David Golder
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8.0 The Clairvoyant
1924 · Monsieur Detaille
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9.0 Chignon d'or
1916
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9.0
Fleur de Paris
1916 · Harry Podge
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10.0
Monsieur Lecoq
1914
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9.0
L'Évasion de Vidocq
1910 · Vidocq
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10.0
La Jeunesse de Vidocq ou Comment on devient policier
1909 · Vidocq
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5.9 L'Assommoir
1908
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Le Roman de Carpentier
no date
People data: TMDb.
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