Harry Baur
Acting • Born 1880-04-12 – Died 1943-04-08
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.
Filmography
48 credits
Nitchevo
Movie • 1936
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Movie • 1941
Gaspard Cornusse
Volpone
Movie • 1941
Volpone
Crime and Punishment
Movie • 1935
Porphyre
Les Misérables
Movie • 1934
Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
Golgotha
Movie • 1935
Hérode
Samson
Movie • 1936
Jacques Brachart
Criminal
Movie • 1933
Warden Brady
A Man and His Woman
Movie • 1934
The Secrets of the Red Sea
Movie • 1937
Paris
Movie • 1937
A Man's Neck
Movie • 1933
Commissaire Jules Maigret
Life Dances On
Movie • 1937
Alain Regnault
Hatred
Movie • 1938
le capitaine Mollenard
The Red Head
Movie • 1932
Mr. Lepic
The Clairvoyant
Movie • 1924
Monsieur Detaille
David Golder
Movie • 1931
David Golder
Moon over Morocco
Movie • 1931
M. de Marouvelle
Moscow Nights
Movie • 1934
Peter Brioukow
The Golem
Movie • 1936
L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème
The Rebel Son
Movie • 1938
Taras Bulba
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Movie • 1937
Ludwig van Beethoven
African Diary
Movie • 1940
Docteur Bourdet
Symphonie eines Lebens
Movie • 1943
Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor
Flower of Paris
Movie • 1916
Harry Podge
The Postmaster's Daughter
Movie • 1938
Virine, le maitre de poste
L'Assommoir
Movie • 1908
Stars Never Die
Movie • 1957
Self (archive footage)
Rasputin
Movie • 1938
Rasputin
Sarati the Terrible
Movie • 1937
Cesar Sarati
Taras Bulba
Movie • 1936
Tarass Boulba
Sins of Youth
Movie • 1941
Monsieur Lacalade
Le Roman de Carpentier
Movie
The Old Devil
Movie • 1933
Guillaume Vautier
The Three Musketeers
Movie • 1932
M. de Tréville
The New Men
Movie • 1936
Bourron
The Patriot
Movie • 1938
Tsar Paul 1st
Dark Eyes
Movie • 1935
Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff
President Haudecoeur
Movie • 1940
President Haudecoeur
Monsieur Lecoq
Movie • 1914
The Gold Chignon
Movie • 1916
Rothchild
Movie • 1934
Rothchild
Polish Jew
Movie • 1931
Mathias
Moscow Nights
Movie • 1934
Piotr Brioukow
The Lost Course
Movie • 1931
Le Capitaine Kell
L'Évasion de Vidocq
Movie • 1910
Vidocq
La Jeunesse de Vidocq ou Comment on devient policier
Movie • 1909
Vidocq
Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
TV • 1978
Self (archive footage)