Harry Baur
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- April 12, 1880, Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France
- Died
- April 8, 1943
- Movies
- 46
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.
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Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 1957 | Stars Never Die | Self (archive footage) |
| 1943 | Symphonie eines Lebens | Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor |
| 1941 | Sins of Youth | Monsieur Lacalade |
| 1941 | Who Killed Santa Claus? | Gaspard Cornusse |
| 1941 | Volpone | Volpone |
| 1940 | African Diary | Docteur Bourdet |
| 1940 | President Haudecoeur | President Haudecoeur |
| 1938 | The Patriot | Tsar Paul 1st |
| 1938 | The Postmaster's Daughter | Virine, le maitre de poste |
| 1938 | The Rebel Son | Taras Bulba |
| 1938 | Rasputin | Rasputin |
| 1938 | Hatred | le capitaine Mollenard |
| 1937 | Life Dances On | Alain Regnault |
| 1937 | The Secrets of the Red Sea | |
| 1937 | Sarati the Terrible | Cesar Sarati |
| 1937 | Paris | |
| 1937 | The Life and Loves of Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven |
| 1936 | Nitchevo | |
| 1936 | Taras Bulba | Tarass Boulba |
| 1936 | Samson | Jacques Brachart |
| 1936 | The New Men | Bourron |
| 1936 | The Golem | L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème |
| 1935 | Dark Eyes | Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff |
| 1935 | Crime and Punishment | Porphyre |
| 1935 | Golgotha | Hérode |
| 1934 | Moscow Nights | Peter Brioukow |
| 1934 | Moscow Nights | Piotr Brioukow |
| 1934 | A Man and His Woman | Papon |
| 1934 | Rothchild | Rothchild |
| 1934 | Les Misérables | Jean Valjean / Champmathieu |
| 1933 | A Man's Head | Commissaire Jules Maigret |
| 1933 | Criminal | Warden Brady |
| 1933 | The Old Devil | Guillaume Vautier |
| 1932 | The Three Musketeers | M. de Tréville |
| 1932 | The Red Head | Mr. Lepic |
| 1931 | Moon over Morocco | M. de Marouvelle |
| 1931 | Polish Jew | Mathias |
| 1931 | The Lost Course | Le Capitaine Kell |
| 1931 | David Golder | David Golder |
| 1924 | The Clairvoyant | Monsieur Detaille |
| 1916 | The Gold Chignon | |
| 1916 | Flower of Paris | Harry Podge |
| 1914 | Monsieur Lecoq | |
| 1910 | L'Évasion de Vidocq | Vidocq |
| 1909 | La Jeunesse de Vidocq ou Comment on devient policier | Vidocq |
| 1908 | L'Assommoir |
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