Biography: Conrad Veidt |
Like so many German actors who played Nazis during World War II, Conrad Veidt was a fervent anti-Nazi and had fled Europe just one step ahead of the storm troopers. Veidt began his career at age 20 under the guidance of the great Max Reinhardt. His... more
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Length: 69min
In this crime drama, a aging illusionist falls in love with his comely young assistant. Unfortunately, she is enamored with the young thief who has become the magician's student. Another assistant gets jealous of the affair and tells the master. In...
Cast: Emil Jannings Lil Dagover
Length: 60min
Love Makes Us Blind was the English-language title of the "all star" German romantic drama Liebe Macht Blind. Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover perform their roles in such a capricious fashion that some viewers mistook the picture for a...
Length: 75min
A German director (Richard Oswald) and two German leading men (Conrad Veidt, Paul Wegener) dominate the proceedings in the German-Italian costume melodrama Lucrecia Borgia. Lina Haid plays the title character, who according to the screenplay was not...
Tags: Gothic Film Fantasy
Length: 5rlmin
Considered the magnum-opus of filmmaker/screenwriter Henrik Galeen, and featuring actor Conrad Veit in one of his finest performances Student of Prague is considered an important work in German Expressionist cinema. It is also the first to present a...
Cast: John Barrymore Alan Crosland
Tags: Costume Adventure Adventure
Length: 110min
Beloved Rogue stars John Barrymore as legendary Parisian poet/vagabond Francois Villon. The film follows the basic chronology of all Villon dramatizations (If I Were King, The Vagabond King etc.): To ensure the loyalty of his subjects, crotchety King...
Cast: George Siegmann
Tags: Romantic Drama Period Film Melodrama Drama
Length: 110min
Released with sound effects and a music score that included the song &"When Love Comes Smiling" by Walter Hirsch, Lew Pollack and Erno Rapee, Paul Leni's near masterpiece remains one of the silent era's last great romantic melodramas. Based on Victor...
Cast: Conrad Veidt Elisabeth Bergner
Length: 60min
The European mentality of this German silent was a bit racy for mainstream American tastes of the era; nevertheless, the images created by director Paul Czinner told this story well. A wife (Elizabeth Bergner) is bored by her overweight slob of a...
Cast: Robert Wiene
Length: 90min
In this classic horror film, based on a novel by Maurice Renard and filmed by Robert Wiene (of Dr. Caligari fame), a world-famous pianist burns his hands in an airplane crash. A mysterious doctor offers to do a transplant and the pianist, his career...
Length: 70min
Popular German leading man Conrad Veidt made his Hollywood film debut (through the auspices of his friend John Barrymore) in Universal's A Man's Past. Veidt is cast as Paul La Roche, a doctor who is falsely accused of murder and sentenced to a brutal...
Cast: Fritz Lang Joe May
Tags: Costume Adventure Melodrama Adventure
Length: 211min
Even though Americans embraced The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, they seemed a bit puzzled by this fanciful German-made melodrama. Three Oxford graduates -- Robert Allen (Paul Richter), Carl Langland (Olaf Fonss) and Indian Prince Ayan (Conrad Veidt) --...
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