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Harry Baur
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.
Academy Award-winning American actor Rod Steiger cited Baur as one of his favorite actors who had exerted a major influence on his craft and career.
As actor
Stars Never Die
Symphonie eines Lebens
Who Killed Santa Claus?
Volpone
Sins of Youth
African Diary
President Haudecoeur
Hatred
The Rebel Son
The Postmaster's Daughter
Rasputin
The Patriot
The Secrets of the Red Sea
Paris
Life Dances On
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Sarati the Terrible
Nitchevo
Samson
The Golem
Taras Bulba
The New Men
Crime and Punishment
Golgotha
Dark Eyes
Les Misérables
A Man and His Woman
Moscow Nights
Rothchild
Moscow Nights