Harry Baur

Known for ActingBorn 1880-04-12Died 1943-04-08Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

The Secrets of the Red Sea

Nitchevo

Dark Eyes

A Man and His Woman

Monsieur Lecoq

La Jeunesse de Vidocq ou Comment on devient policier

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

Stars Never Die

Polish Jew

Flower of Paris

The Gold Chignon

L'Évasion de Vidocq

The Rebel Son

Taras Bulba

Rothchild

Criminal

The Lost Course

Les Misérables

The Clairvoyant

President Haudecoeur

Golgotha

Hatred

Symphonie eines Lebens

The Postmaster's Daughter

The Patriot

Paris

Sarati the Terrible

Life Dances On

Crime and Punishment

Volpone

The Life and Loves of Beethoven

Who Killed Santa Claus?

The Red Head

African Diary

David Golder

The New Men

The Three Musketeers

Moon over Morocco

A Man's Neck

Moscow Nights

Rasputin

Sins of Youth

Samson

L'Assommoir

The Old Devil

The Golem

Moscow Nights

Le Roman de Carpentier