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Actor, born in Germany on the 22nd of January, 1893, died on the 3rd of April, 1943.
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Veidt was bisexual.
Conrad Veidt, born Hans Walter Conrad Weidt in Potsdam, Germany on the 22nd of January, 1893, began his career as a film actor in 1916. His striking appearance prompted him mostly to be cast in the parts of exotic foreigners. In 1918, he met and began working with director Richard Oswald, acting several roles in the popular 1919 horror anthology film Eerie Tales.
Apart from mainstream dramas, he also took part in Oswald’s sexual education series, playing Mr. Kramer in the 1918 film Let There Be Light and Alfred Werner in Prostitution and its sequel, Prostitution II, both from 1919. Also in that year, he starred in Different From the Others, playing Paul Körner, the definitive silent-era sympathetic out-homosexual.
Veidt is most remembered for his work after Oswald, however, in such roles as Cesare in Robert Wiene’s 1920 expressionist film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and as Gwynplaine in The Man Who Laughs (the character would later be used as the model for The Joker). He made an easy transition into talking pictures, appearing in Germany’s first talkie The Land Without Women in 1929.
After marrying his first wife, who was Jewish, he converted to Judaism and became staunchly anti-Nazi during their rise to power in Germany, eventually forcing him to exile in Britain. He quickly aligned himself with the English speaking film industry and remained a prolific actor in England and later in Hollywood, playing Jaffar in The Thief of Baghdad in 1940 and opposite Joan Crawford as Torsten Barring in 1941’s A Woman’s Face. His best remembered performance in a talkie was his penultimate, playing Major Strasser in the 1942 film Casablanca.
Veidt died on the 3rd of April, 1943 of a heart attack while playing the 8th hole at the Riviera Country Club in Hollywood, California.
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