1880-04-12 ( 144 years old ) in Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France
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.
Movies
Stars Never Die
1957-05-07
Symphonie eines Lebens
1943-04-21
Sins of Youth
1941-11-16
Who Killed Santa Claus?
1941-10-16
Volpone
1941-05-10
African Diary
1940-06-25
President Haudecoeur
1940-04-11
Le Patriote
1938-06-05
The Postmaster's Daughter
1938-03-03
The Rebel Son
1938-02-02
Rasputin
1938-01-28
Hatred
1938-01-26
Life Dances On
1937-09-09
The Secrets of the Red Sea
1937-09-08
Sarati the Terrible
1937-07-30
Paris
1937-01-15
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
1937-01-15
Nitchevo
1936-12-18
Taras Bulba
1936-03-05
Samson
1936-03-04
The New Men
1936-03-04
The Golem
1936-02-06
Moscow Nights
1935-11-05
Dark Eyes
1935-09-05
Crime and Punishment
1935-05-17
Behold the Man
1935-01-01
Moscow Nights
1934-11-21
A Man and His Woman
1934-11-09
Rothchild
1934-05-04
Les Misérables
1934-02-09
A Man's Neck
1933-02-18
Criminal
1933-01-06
The Old Devil
1933-01-01
The Three Musketeers
1932-12-09
The Red Head
1932-11-04
Moon over Morocco
1931-10-29
Polish Jew
1931-09-18
The Lost Course
1931-04-03
David Golder
1931-03-06
The Clairvoyant
1924-10-31
The Gold Chignon
1916-05-15
Flower of Paris
1916-03-11
Monsieur Lecoq
1914-05-15
L'Évasion de Vidocq
1910-01-10
L'Assommoir
1908-12-21
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