Actor
Harry Baur
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 Bernha ...

Known For
Acting
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 -- Le Patriote | Le Tsar
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 -- The Life and Loves of Beethoven | Ludwig van Beethoven
1937 -- Paris |
1936 -- Nitchevo |
1936 -- Taras Bulba | Tarass Boulba
1936 -- The New Men | Bourron
1936 -- Samson | Jacques Brachart
1936 -- The Golem | L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème
1935 -- Moscow Nights | Peter Brioukow
1935 -- Dark Eyes | Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff
1935 -- Crime and Punishment | Porphyre
1935 -- Behold the Man | Hérode
1934 -- Moscow Nights | Piotr Brioukow
1934 -- A Man and His Woman |
1934 -- Rothchild | Rothchild
1934 -- Les Misérables | Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
1933 -- A Man's Neck | 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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