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Actor
Harry Baur
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Movies: 40Series: 0
TMDB ID: 48997
IMDb ID: nm0062428
Known for: Acting
Born: April 12, 1880
Died: April 8, 1943
Age: 62
Place of birth: Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1908 - 1943
Years active: 36
Average TMDB rating: 6.85
Wikidata: Q552063
Also known as
Henri-Marie Baur • Henri Marie Rodolphe Baur • Henri-Marie "Harry" Baur
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.
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Le Roman de Carpentier
Movie
Symphonie eines Lebens
as Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor
1943 Movie
5.5
Sins of Youth
as Monsieur Lacalade
1941 Movie
6.6
Who Killed Santa Claus?
as Gaspard Cornusse
1941 Movie
6.7
Volpone
as Volpone
1941 Movie
5.8
African Diary
as Docteur Bourdet
1940 Movie
6.0
President Haudecoeur
as President Haudecoeur
1940 Movie
The Patriot
as Tsar Paul 1st
1938 Movie
The Postmaster's Daughter
as Virine, le maitre de poste
1938 Movie
5.0
Rasputin
as Rasputin
1938 Movie
7.3
Hatred
as le capitaine Mollenard
1938 Movie
6.9
Life Dances On
as Alain Regnault
1937 Movie
The Secrets of the Red Sea
1937 Movie
6.8
Sarati the Terrible
as Cesar Sarati
1937 Movie
6.7
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven
1937 Movie
Paris
1937 Movie
Nitchevo
1936 Movie
6.0
The New Men
as Bourron
1936 Movie
5.0
Samson
as Jacques Brachart
1936 Movie
4.8
The Golem
as L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème
1936 Movie
10.0
Dark Eyes
as Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff
1935 Movie
6.8
Crime and Punishment
as Porphyre
1935 Movie
7.3
Golgotha
as Hérode
1935 Movie
5.2
Moscow Nights
as Peter Brioukow
1934 Movie