Conrad VeidtFilmography

Casablanca

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre

Synopsis: One of the most beloved American films, this captivating wartime adventure of romance and intrigue from director Michael Curtiz defies standard categorization. Simply put, it is the story of Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart), a world-weary ex-freedom fighter who runs a nightclub in Casablanca during Read More

Nazi Agent

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars

Synopsis: This Irving Asher production was that rarity, a genuine B-movie from posh MGM. Set in a pre-Pearl Harbor United States, Nazi Agent starred real-life Hitler refugee Conrad Veidt as identical twins, one a timid stamp collector and rare book store owner, the other the Nazi consul. The evil Veidt is Read More

Salute to Courage

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher, Dorothy Tree, Ivan Simpson

Whistling in the Dark

Actors: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford, Virginia Grey, Rags Ragland

Synopsis: Though based on a stage play by Laurence Gross and Edward Childs Carpenter (previously filmed as an Ernest Truex vehicle in 1933), MGM's Whistling in the Dark was clearly inspired by the success of Paramount's Bob Hope comedy-mystery The Ghost Breakers. In his first film starring role, Red Skelton Read More

A Woman's Face

Actors: Joan Crawford, Melvyn Douglas, Conrad Veidt, Osa Massen, Reginald Owen

Synopsis: A remake of the Swedish film of the same name (see entry 55092), MGM's A Woman's Face was reshaped into one of Joan Crawford's best vehicles. Told in flashback from the vantage point of a murder trial, the story concerns a female criminal whose face is disfigured by a hideous scar. The Read More

The Men in Her Life

Actors: Loretta Young, Conrad Veidt, Dean Jagger, Otto Kruger, Eugenie Leontovich, Ann Todd

Synopsis: Loretta Young is (mis)cast as a prima ballerina, who reaches the top of her profession and marries her demanding instructor (Conrad Veidt). Still, Loretta can't help reminiscing on the past loves in her life. She flashes back to her early days as a circus bareback rider and recalls all her former Read More

All Through the Night

Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne, Jane Darwell, Frank McHugh

Synopsis: Humphrey Bogart plays Gloves Donahue, a rough-hewn but essentially decent New York gambler. The Runyonesque plot gets moving when Gloves tries to find out what's holding up his favorite restaurant's daily shipment of cheesecake. Paying a call on the bakery, Gloves stumbles into a Nazi spy ring Read More

The Thief of Bagdad

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram

Synopsis: In ancient Bagdad, the young prince Ahmad (John Justin) is betrayed, deposed, and imprisoned by his vizier Jaffar (Conrad Veidt), an evil and calculating man who is also a master of the Black Arts. But Ahmad is saved from prison, and certain execution, by Abu (Sabu), a young thief who has made his Read More

Contraband

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Hay Petrie, Joss Ambler, Raymond Lovell, Esmond Knight

Synopsis: The Danish freighter Helvig approaches English waters in early 1940 and, in keeping with the needs of British security, it is boarded by customs and naval officials in search of contraband cargo. Her skipper, Captain Anderson (Conrad Veidt), is compelled to ascede to British demands, but dreads Read More

Escape

Actors: Norma Shearer, Robert Taylor, Conrad Veidt, Alla Nazimova, Felix Bressart

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Ethel Vance, Escape stars Robert Taylor as a young American, the son of a widowed European woman (Alla Nazimova). The mother has been imprisoned in a German concentration camp, compelling her son to ignore America's neutrality and attempt a rescue. Sneaking into German-occupied Read More

Le Joueur d'Echecs

Actors: Françoise Rosay, Micheline Francey, Bernard Lancret, Conrad Veidt

Synopsis: In one of his last European film appearances, Conrad Veidt heads the cast of Le Joueur D'Echecs (The Checker Player). Set during the reign of Russia's Catherine the Great, the film recreates Poland's ongoing efforts to wrest free of Russian tyranny. Paul Cambo plays Polish patriot Bosleslas Read More

The Spy in Black

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Sebastian Shaw, Valerie Hobson, Marius Goring, June Duprez

Synopsis: The Spy In Black is the story of a German World War I submarine captain (Conrad Veidt) who is given a mission to discover British intelligence secrets. Once he arrives in the Orkney Islands, he meets up with a female schoolteacher (Valerie Hobson), who happens to be a German agent. Veidt falls in Read More

Tempête Sur L'Asie

Actors: Madeleine Robinson, Conrad Veidt, Roger Duchesne

Synopsis: Though its title translates as Storm over Asia, this French melodrama bears no relation to the Pudovkin film of the same name. Conrad Veidt stars as a soldier of fortune who spearheads an expedition in Mongolia in hopes of finding hitherto untapped oil reserves. Veidt heads deep into uncharted Read More

Dark Journey

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Vivien Leigh, Anthony Bushell, Margery Pickard

Synopsis: The unorthodox teaming of Vivien Leigh and Conrad Veidt is but one of the many pleasures of the 1937 spy yarn Dark Journey. Leigh plays a Stockholm dress-shop owner during World War I, who, being a neutral, is permitted to travel unmolested to and from France. Veidt plays a supposedly disgraced Read More

Under the Red Robe

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Annabella, Raymond Massey, Romney Brent, Sophie Stewart

Synopsis: Famed Swedish director Victor Sjostrom was coaxed out of retirement to direct his final film, Under the Red Robe, a swashbuckling adventure that takes place in the France of Louis XIII. Conrad Veidt stars as Gil de Berault, quick with his sword yet set for execution. But right before his sentence Read More

The Passing of the Third Floor Back

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Renee Ray, Frank Cellier, Anna Lee, John Turnbull

Synopsis: The Passing of the Third Floor Back, Jerome K. Jerome's mystical 1908 stage play, was given perfunctory treatment in this 1935 film version. Conrad Veidt assumes the old J. Forbes Robertson role as the Mysterious Stranger who moves into a cheap boarding house run by despicable landlord Wright (Frank Cellier Read More

King of the Damned

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Noah Beery, Sr., Helen Vinson, Cecil Ramage, Percy Walsh

Synopsis: Based on the stage melodrama by John Chancellor, King of the Damned takes place on a brutal prison colony that makes Devil's Island look like Disneyland. Cruel governor Courvin believes in strict discipline, and isn't above breaking a few backs to get what he wants. Finally the convicts, led by Read More

The Wandering Jew

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Matheson Lang, Marie Ney, Cicely Oates, Malvina Longfellow, Isobel Elsom, Basil Gill, Anne Grey

Synopsis: This story is based both on a long-standing legend and a play by E. Temple Thurston. Veteran British director Maurice Elvey brought years of experience with theatrical adaptations to the difficult task of filming a movie that spans centuries and strains credulity. Conrad Veidt stars as the Jew who Read More

Legend of William Tell

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Edmund Willard

Synopsis: The title tells all in the German-made Legend of William Tell. Hans Marr is at his most nobly heroic as the title character, the 13th-century Swiss huntsman-patriot who defied the despotic dictatorship of Herr Gessler (Conrad Veidt). The famous scene wherein Tell is forced to shoot an apple off Read More

I Was a Spy

Actors: Madeleine Carroll, Conrad Veidt, Edmund Gwenn, Herbert Marshall, Donald Calthrop, Gerald du Maurier

Synopsis: This story of espionage in World War I is based on a true story. Marthe McKenna (Madeleine Carroll) is a nurse from Belgium who uses her beauty and charm to serve her native land during the war. McKenna is able to ferret out secret information from German officers and pass it along to Allied Read More

Power

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Benita Hume, Pamela Ostrer, Frank Vosper, Gerald du Maurier, Cedric Hardwicke

Synopsis: Jew Suss was a well-worn stage drama based on an old novel by Lionel Feuchtwanger. The story involves an enterprising Jewish businessman (Conrad Veidt) who gains power and influence in the European community of Wurttemburg. He does this to help his people, who have suffered persecution under the Read More

Bella Donna

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Mary Ellis, Cedric Hardwicke, Jeanne Stuart, John Stuart

Synopsis: That old theatrical war-horse Bella Donna (previously filmed in America by Alla Nazimova) was resurrected by Britain's Twickenham Studios in 1934. Conrad Veidt stars as sinister Egyptian Mahmoud Baroundi, who even before the film gets under way has left a long trail of ruined women behind him. Read More

Der Schwarze Hussar

Actors: Bernhard Goetzke, Conrad Veidt, Wolf Albach-Retty, Mady Christians, Ursula Grabley

Ich und Die Kaiserin

Actors: Mady Christians, Lilian Harvey

Synopsis: In this musical the Empress' hairdresser finds herself mistaken for the Empress by a deranged aristocrat. Mayhem and music ensues as she tries to convince him otherwise. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

The Wandering Jew

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Ben Adler, Abraham Teitelbaum, Marie Ney, Anne Grey, Joan Maude, Peggy Ashcroft

Synopsis: Filmed in the Yiddish language, The Wandering Jew features Jacob Ben-Ami as a young Jewish artist living in Germany in the early 1930s. As the Nazis gain in influence, the artist's life and livelihood are slowly eroded: his non-Jewish fiancee leaves him and his paintings are rejected by the Read More

F.P. 1 Antwortet Nicht

Actors: Hans Albers, Paul Hartmann, Peter Lorre, Hermann Speelmans

Synopsis: This deluxe German/British production was originally released as simply F.P. 1. The story and characterizations take a back seat to the massive sets and state-of-art (for 1933) special effects. The floating aerodrome which provides the film's centerpiece is a truly impressive creation, far more so Read More

F.P.1

Actors: Leslie Fenton, Conrad Veidt, Jill Esmond, George Merritt, Donald Calthrop

Synopsis: This drama is set upon a floating platform, used for oil drilling, located in the Atlantic. The owners of a rival platform are desperate to destroy it. The film was originally made in German and titled F.P.1 Antwortet Nicht. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Rome Express

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Esther Ralston, Joan Barry, Cedric Hardwicke, Frank Vosper, Donald Calthrop, Hugh Williams

Synopsis: Rome Express is a fast-moving British imitation of Hollywood's Grand Hotel formula. The film concentrates on the various passengers of a European express train. On this particular run, the train is a veritable hotbed of intrigue, with crooks and blackmail victims seemingly in every coach. Among Read More

Rasputin

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Paul Otto, Hermine Sterler

Synopsis: This version of the notorious Russian monk/charlatan's life, presents Rasputin, not as an evil manipulator of the czar's family, but as more of a victim. The story begins in a tiny village where he miraculously healed peasants. He is then taken to court to treat the czarina's hemophiliac son, but Read More

Der Mann Der Den Mord Beging

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Heinrich George, Trude von Molo, Friedrich Kayssler

Synopsis: Released in English-speaking countries as The Man Who Murdered, this German melodrama was based on a play by Pierre Frondale (itself inspired by a novel by Claude Farere). Set in pre-WWI Constantinople, the story concerns French diplomatic attache Conrad Veidt, who seduces Trude von Molo, the wife Read More

Die Andere Seite

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Theodor Loos, Friedrich Ettel, Viktor de Kowa

Die Grosse Sehnsucht

Actors: Camilla Horn, Theodor Loos, Harry Frank, Paul Kemp, Paul Henckels

Synopsis: The "great yearning" of the title refers to the desire of heroine Camilla Horn to become a famous movie star. Fortunately, director Theodor Loos happens to be combing the countryside, searching for "something new" to put before the cameras. He discovers Horn, and the rest can be filled in by the Read More

Der Kongress Tanzt

Actors: Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch, Henri Garat, Otto Wallburg, Conrad Veidt, Armand Bernard, Lil Dagover, Gibb McLaughlin, Carl-Heinz Schroth

Synopsis: During the 1814 Congress in Vienna, the crowned heads of Europe gather together to decide the shape (and fate) of the continent (which would hold -- with some serious cracks -- for exactly 100 years) and devise a strategy for dealing with Napoleon. The ordinary Austrians chafe at the cost of Read More

13 Men and a Girl [English Version]

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Karin Evans

Bride 68

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Elga Brink, Clifford McLaglen

Synopsis: This German drama was advertised as "2% Talkie," meaning that all but 2 1/2 minutes of its running time are silent. The story is set in Australia, where 413 "lottery brides" are shipped to keep the population from depleting. Bride Number 68 is Evelyn Bernheim (Elga Brink), who though she's fallen Read More

The Last Company

Actors: Karin Evans, Conrad Veidt

Menschen im Kaefig

Actors: Fay Compton, Conrad Veidt, Frank Harvey Jr., Fritz Kortner, Heinrich George, Ian Hunter, Edmund Willard, Tala Birell, Donald Calthrop, Julius Brandt

Synopsis: Mesnchen im Kaefig is the German-language version of the British melodrama Cape Forlorn (aka Love Storm). Based on a play by Frank Harvey, this is the story of William, a taciturn lighthouse keeper who marries dance-hall girl Eileen. Their already shaky relationship is further damaged when the Read More

Illusion

Actors: Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Nancy Carroll, June Collyer, Kay Francis, Regis Toomey

Synopsis: Carlee Thorpe (Buddy Rogers) and Claire Jernigan (Nancy Carol) enjoy considerable success with their vaudeville magic act. Offstage, Carlee thrives as a solo, performing various bits of sleight-of-hand at fancy society parties. At one such function, he falls in love with Hilt (June Collyer), the Read More

The Great Power

Actors: Herschel Mayall, Minna Gombell, Alan Birmingham

Synopsis: Produced and directed by onetime comedy impresario Joe Rock, the early talkie The Great Power was a literal adaptation of the same-named stage play by Myron Fagan. Using the facilities of a small studio in Waterbury, Connecticut, Rock hired the cast members of the original play to repeat their Read More

The Last Performance

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Leslie Fenton, Fred Mackaye, Gus Partos

Synopsis: 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 retaliation, the thief kills the snitch and then Read More

Lucrecia Borgia

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Paul Wegener

Synopsis: 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 the power-hungry poisoner of history, but Read More

Two Brothers

Actors: Lil Dagover, Conrad Veidt, Liane Haid, Frida Richard

Love Makes Us Blind

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Emil Jannings

Synopsis: 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 satire of its genre. The story concerns a worldly Read More

The Man Who Laughs

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova, Josephine Crowell, George Siegmann

Synopsis: 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 Hugo's 1869 novel L'Homme qui Rit, The Man Who Read More

Husbands or Lovers

Actors: Emil Jannings, Elisabeth Bergner, Conrad Veidt

Synopsis: 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 husband (Emil Jannings). She gives in to the Read More

The Beloved Rogue

Actors: John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Lawson Butt, Henry Victor

Synopsis: 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 Louis XI (Conrad Veidt) appoints the waggish Read More

Der Student von Prag

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss

Synopsis: 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 dark exploration of the inner realms of the self Read More

Man's Past

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Barbara Bedford, Ian Keith, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Charles Puffy

Synopsis: 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 penal colony. During a medical crisis, La Roche Read More

Kreuzzug des Weibes

Orlacs Hände

Actors: Conrad Veidt, Carmen Cartellieri

Synopsis: 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 on the verge of ruin, accepts. After a series of Read More

Le Comte Kostia

Actors: Conrad Veidt, André Nox

Ingmarsarvet

Liebe Macht Blind

Schicksal

Nju

Carlos und Elisabeth

Synopsis: This historical costume drama recalls the story of Carlos (Conrad Veidt) the crown prince of Spain and his love for Elisabeth Valois. Eugen Kloepfer plays Philip, with Egede Nissen as Eboil. No name is available for the actress who played Elisabeth. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide Read More

Waxworks

Synopsis: German filmmaker Paul Leni functioned as both director and production designer for the Caligariesque Waxworks (Das Wachsfigurenkabinett). Using a wax museum as the unifying factor, Leni weaves three separate stories of Evil Incarnate. Emil Jannings stars as middle-Eastern despot Harroun al Read More

Das Wachsfigurenkabinett

Actors: Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss

Wilhelm Tell

The Indian Tomb

Actors: Erna Morena, Conrad Veidt, Bernhard Goetzke, Lya de Putti, Olaf Fønss

Synopsis: 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) -- pledge to remain devoted to one another. It Read More

All for a Woman

Actors: Werner Krauss

Synopsis: aka Danton With Emil Jannings as George Jacques Danton and Werner Kraus (who played the title character in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari) as Maximillian Robespierre, this German-made spectacle about the French Revolution should have been more impressive than it was. But it turned out to be a mixed Read More

Lady Hamilton

Synopsis: This epic German production was said to have had a cast of 100,000. Whether there was any truth to this claim is extremely questionable, and there were but three really important roles in the film: Conrad Veidt as Lord Nelson, Werner Kraus as Sir William Hamilton, and Liane Haid in the role of a Read More

Manolescus Memoiren

Das Geheimnis Von Bombay

Sehnsucht

Weltbrand

Patience

Abend - Nacht - Morgen

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Actors: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Friedrich Feher, Hans Heinrich Von Twardowski

Synopsis: In one of the most influential films of the silent era, Werner Krauss plays the title character, a sinister hypnotist who travels the carnival circuit displaying a somnambulist named Cesare (Conrad Veidt). In one tiny German town, a series of murders coincides with Caligari's visit. When the best Read More

Opium

Nachtgestalten

Satanas

Prinz Kuckuck

Wahnsinn

Crew: Director, Producer

Chopin

Different From the Others

Actors: Conrad Veidt

Synopsis: Thought to have been lost for decades, German filmmaker Richard Oswald's 1919 picture Different From the Others was eventually discovered to have survived the Nazi era. The films stars Conrad Veidt of Casablanca and centers on the oppression brought upon Germany's homosexual men as a result of the Read More

Unheimliche Geschichten

Colomba

Peer Gynt

Nocturno Der Liebe

Henriette Jacoby

Furcht

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