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