Harry Baur
Acting
Born April 12, 1880 · Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France
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 w…
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Hatred
Rothchild
Crime and Punishment
The New Men
L'Assommoir
The Postmaster's Daughter
Monsieur Lecoq
Rasputin
Les Misérables
Golgotha
Samson
Volpone
Sarati the Terrible
Polish Jew
L'Évasion de Vidocq
The Red Head
Flower of Paris
Moscow Nights
Who Killed Santa Claus?
President Haudecoeur
Dark Eyes
Life Dances On
The Golem
A Man and His Woman
The Lost Course
A Man's Head
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Taras Bulba
David Golder
Moscow Nights
The Secrets of the Red Sea
The Three Musketeers
Le Roman de Carpentier
The Gold Chignon
African Diary
The Patriot
Criminal
Paris
Moon over Morocco