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He also helped individuals escape Nazi Germany, including the actor Conrad Veidt, who had starred in his 1934 film Jew Suss.

" Veidt also starred in other classic silent horror films such as The Hands of Orlac in 1924 ( again directed by Robert Weine ), The Student of Prague in 1926 and Waxworks in 1924 where he played Ivan the Terrible.

A 1926 version was also made in Germany and directed by Henrik Galeen and starred Conrad Veidt.

Next came the rictus-grin face of Conrad Veidt in The Man Who Laughs, also a silent Universal picture.

In 2009, he played the character of Adrian Veidt in Zack Snyder's Watchmen, and also appeared in the drama A Single Man ( 2009 ) ( based on the Christopher Isherwood novel ).

The film was directed by Michael Curtiz, produced by Hal Wallis and featured a strong cast, including Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains, Sydney Greenstreet, Paul Henreid, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre and Dooley Wilson.

After World War I ended, Murnau returned to Germany where he soon established his own film studio with actor Conrad Veidt.

Nonetheless, Powell was brought in to save a film that was being made as a vehicle for two of Korda's star players, Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson.

* A 1921 silent German film Lady Hamilton directed by Richard Oswald with Liane Haid as Hamilton and Conrad Veidt as Nelson

( Its 1928 film version, starring Conrad Veidt, was credited as the model for Batman's the Joker.

According to the Los Angeles Times, " Conrad Veidt starred in this semi-silent film based on Victor Hugo's novel in which the son of a lord is punished for his father's disrespect to the king by having his face carved into a permanent grin.

In 1934, Lothar Mendes directed a film adaptation of the novel in which Süß was portrayed by actor Conrad Veidt.

Contraband ( 1940 ) is a wartime spy film by the British director-writer team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, which brought stars Conrad Veidt and Valerie Hobson together again after their success in The Spy in Black the previous year.

Although among Hugo's most obscure works, it was adapted into a popular 1928 film, directed by Paul Leni and starring Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin and Olga Baclanova.

Veidt became a major film star the year after Anders was released, in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

The film opens with Paul Körner ( Conrad Veidt ) reading the daily newspaper obituaries, which are filled with vaguely worded and seemingly inexplicable suicides.

The film starred Conrad Veidt as a stage magician who falls in love with his assistant and was another part sound, part silent film.

Another remarkable case was the 1919 German film Different from the Others ( Anders als die Andern ), starring Conrad Veidt.

Mad Love has been remade once, and is itself a remake of the 1924 Austrian silent film The Hands of Orlac, directed by Robert Wiene and starring Conrad Veidt.

The book was thrice adapted to film as Orlacs Hände ( 1924 ) with Conrad Veidt, Mad Love ( 1935 ) with Colin Clive and Peter Lorre, and The Hands of Orlac ( 1962 ) with Mel Ferrer and Christopher Lee.

In film dubbing Preiss provided the voice for such actors as Lex Barker, Christopher Lee, Anthony Quinn, Claude Rains, Richard Widmark, as well as that of Conrad Veidt as " Major Strasser " in the remastered version of Casablanca.

Desire ( German: Sehnsucht ) was a 1921 silent film directed by F. W. Murnau and starring Conrad Veidt.

Veidt fervently opposed the Nazi regime, motivating him to emigrate from Germany in 1933 a week after marrying Illona Prager, a Jewish woman.

Veidt married a woman from an aristocratic German family, Felicitas Radke, in 1923.

Hans Walter Conrad Veidt ( 22 January 1893 – 3 April 1943 ) was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ( 1919 ), The Man Who Laughs ( 1928 ), The Thief of Bagdad ( 1940 ) and Casablanca ( 1942 ).

It was first released in 1919 and stars Conrad Veidt and Reinhold Schünzel.

The two friends visit a carnival in their German mountain village of Holstenwall, where they encounter the captivating Dr. Caligari ( Werner Krauss ) and a near-silent somnambulist, Cesare ( Conrad Veidt ), whom the doctor keeps asleep in a coffin-like cabinet, controls hypnotically, and is displaying as an attraction.

Captain Hardt ( Conrad Veidt ), a World War I German submarine commander, is ordered to lead a mission to attack the British Fleet at Scapa Flow.

The Spy in Black, which was released in the US as U-Boat 29, stars Conrad Veidt, Valerie Hobson, Sebastian Shaw and features Marius Goring.

In his portrayal of the character, Goode played Veidt with a hint of a German accent in private and an American accent to the media.

He believes that someone is picking off costumed superheroes, a view that strengthens when Doctor Manhattan is forced into exile and when Adrian Veidt, the former vigilante Ozymandias, is targeted with an assassination attempt.

He makes one last entry in his journal, stating his certainty that Veidt is responsible for whatever might happen next, and drops it into a mailbox.

Danish Captain Andersen ( Conrad Veidt ) is stopped for a cargo inspection in a British Contraband Control Port in the first year of World War II, before Denmark has been occupied by the Germans.

* Waxworks, starring William Dieterle, Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, and Werner Krauss, is released by director Paul Leni.

The title is a reference to the movie The Man Who Laughs, whose star, Conrad Veidt, was an inspiration for The Joker.

Conrad Veidt married three times, his first marriage to Augusta Holl, a famous cabaret entertainer known as " Gussy ", took place on June 18, 1918 and ended in divorce the following autumn.

Many people find it refreshing to see Conrad Veidt playing a hero character ; something he was not allowed to do very often.

Conrad Veidt plays Dr. Warren ( the Dr. Jekyll character ) who changes into Mr. O ' Connor ( a parallel of Mr. Hyde ).

The original script of The Spy in Black followed the book quite closely, but was too verbose and did not have a good role for either Veidt or Hobson.

Carradine tested, along with Conrad Veidt, William Courtenay, Paul Muni, and Ian Keith, for the title role in Dracula, but all contenders lost out to Bela Lugosi.

Rorschach, who has been keeping a journal throughout the duration of the novel, realises that they may be no match for Veidt.

With the start of World War II, Henreid risked deportation or internment as an enemy alien, but Conrad Veidt spoke for him and he was allowed to remain free in England.

Intrigued, Veidt applied for the theater as well.

* Comic book artist Bob Kane, writer Bill Finger and artist Jerry Robinson used stills of Veidt in The Man Who Laughs as inspiration for the iconic supervillain The Joker.

Though Kane claimed he and writer Bill Finger came up with the idea for the Joker, most comic historians credit Robinson for the iconic villain, modeled after Conrad Veidt in the 1928 movie, The Man Who Laughs.