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Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was born in his parents’ residence at Tieckstraße 39 in a modest working-class neighborhood of Berlin on January 22, 1893.
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Conrad Veidt, a native of Berlin, began acting in small parts as an extra until called into service during World War I. After his discharge he began a theater career that subsequently led to films and more than one turn as a director. This work thoroughly details Veidt's film career. It lists all movies that he was involved in and provides a synopsis, cast and crew, and reviews of each film. There are many photographs, a list of films that he is thought possibly to have been involved in, and an extensive bibliography.
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Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was born in his parents’ residence at Tieckstraße 39 in a modest working-class neighborhood of Berlin on January 22, 1893.
Veidt studied under Max Reinhardt and played on the Berlin stage before Richard Oswald encouraged him into films: Das Ratsel von Banga- lor (17, Paul Leni and Alexander Antalffy); Die Seeschlacht (17, Oswald); Dida Ibsens Geschichte (IS, Oswald); Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen (18, Oswald); Es Werde Licht (18, Oswald); Prostitu¬tion (19, Oswald); Satanas (19, F. W. Murnau); before making Caligari.
He worked in the full range of German cinema: in Prinz Kuckuck (Leni); Unheimliche Geschichten (Oswald); the lead in Murnau s Jekyll and Hyde movie, Der Januskopf; in Das Indische Grabmal (Joe May); in the historic films—Danton (Dmitri Buchowetzki); Lady Hamilton, Carlos and Elizabeth, and Lukrezia Borgia, all by Richard Oswald; as Ivan the Terrible in Waxworks (Leni); in two Paul Czinner films, Nju and Der Geiger von Florenz; in Die Brader Sehel- lenbcrg (26, Karl Grime); and an enormous suc¬cess in Der Student von Prag (Henrik Galeen). In addition, he directed one film himself. Lord Byron.
He worked briefly in Italy—Enrico I; in Sweden—Jerusalem (Ernst Mattson); and in France Les Maudits; before he took up an offer to play Louis XI to John Barrymore's François Villon in The Beloved Rogue (Alan Crosland). Veidt stayed in Hollywood for The Man Who Laughs (Leni), A Man’s Past ( George Melford), and The Last Performance (Paul Fejos). Back in Germany, he made an English language version of The Last Company (Kurt Bernhardt), Der Mann der den Mord Beging (31. Bernhardt), and the German version of Cape Forlorn (E. A. Dupont). After Rasputin (Adolf Trotz), he played Metternich in Der Kongress Tanzt (Erich Charell) and then moved to England for Rome Express (Walter Forde) and I Was a Spy (Victor Saville). Back in Germany lie was in F.P.l Antwortet Nicht (Karl Hard), Der Schwarze Huzar (Gerhard Lamprecht), Ich und die Kaiserin (Frederieh Hollander), and Wilhelm Tell (Heinz Paul).
In England he made The Wandering Jew (Maurice Elvey) and Bella Donna (Robert Milton) and while visiting Germany he was briefly detained he had a Jewish wife and was about to make Jew Siiss (Lothar Mendes). Thereafter he stayed in Britain for The Passing of the Third Floor Back (Berthold Viertel); King of the Damned (Forde); Under the Red Robe (Victor Sjostrom); Dark Journey (Saville); went to Paris for Tempête sur l'Asie (Oswald) and Jouer d'Echecs; and returned to Britain for two films with Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger. When war came, the Kordas shipped Veidt to the United States to play the vizier in The Thief of Bagdad (Powell, Tim Whelan, and Ludwig Berger), and he spent his last years plaving Germans in Hollywood films: Escape (40, Mervyn Le Roy); A Woman's Face (George Cukor); The Men in Her Life (Gregory Ratoff); Whistling in the Dark (S. Sylvan Simon); All Through the Night (Vincent Sherman); Nazi Agent (Jules Dassin); shot down on the phone in Casablanca (Michael Curtiz); and Above Suspicion (Richard Thorpe).
Conrad Veidt died on April 3rd, 1943 of a massive heart attack while playing golf at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles with singer Arthur Fields and his personal physician, Dr. Bergman, who pronounced him dead on the scene. Veidt was 50 years old. In 1998, his ashes were placed in a niche of the columbarium at the Golders Green Crematorium in north London.
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Conrad Veidt married three times: he first married Augusta Holl, a cabaret entertainer known as "Gussy", on 18 June 1918. They divorced 4 years later. Gussy later married German actor Emil Jannings. Veidt's second wife Felicitas Radke was from an aristocratic German family; they married in 1923. Their daughter, Vera Viola Maria, called Viola, was born on 10 August 1925. He last married Ilona Prager, a Hungarian Jew called Lily, in 1933; they were together until his death.