Harry Baur
Birthday
1880/04/12
Day of death
1943/04/08 (63 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France
Also know as
Henri-Marie Baur, Henri Marie Rodolphe Baur, Henri-Marie "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...Read more
Acting
(1936) Nitchevo
as ---
(1941) Who Killed Santa Claus?
as Gaspard Cornusse
(1941) Volpone
as Volpone
(1935) Crime and Punishment
as Porphyre
(1934) Les Misérables
as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
(1935) Behold the Man
as Hérode
(1936) Samson
as Jacques Brachart
(1933) Criminal
as Warden Brady
(1934) A Man and His Woman
as ---
(1937) The Secrets of the Red Sea
as ---
(1937) Paris
as ---
(1933) A Man's Neck
as Commissaire Jules Maigret
(1938) Hatred
as le capitaine Mollenard
(1937) Life Dances On
as Alain Regnault
(1932) The Red Head
as Mr. Lepic
(1924) The Clairvoyant
as Monsieur Detaille
(1931) David Golder
as David Golder
(1931) Moon over Morocco
as M. de Marouvelle
(1935) Moscow Nights
as Peter Brioukow
(1936) The Golem
as L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème
(1938) The Rebel Son
as Taras Bulba
(1937) The Life and Loves of Beethoven
as Ludwig van Beethoven
(1940) African Diary
as Docteur Bourdet
(1943) Symphonie eines Lebens
as Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor
(1916) Flower of Paris
as Harry Podge
(1938) The Postmaster's Daughter
as Virine, le maitre de poste
(1908) L'Assommoir
as ---
(1957) Stars Never Die
as Self (archive footage)
(1938) Rasputin
as Rasputin
(1937) Sarati the Terrible
as Cesar Sarati
(1936) Taras Bulba
as Tarass Boulba
(1941) Sins of Youth
as Monsieur Lacalade
Le Roman de Carpentier
as ---
(1933) The Old Devil
as Guillaume Vautier
(1932) The Three Musketeers
as M. de Tréville
(1936) The New Men
as Bourron
(1938) Le Patriote
as Le Tsar
(1935) Dark Eyes
as Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff
(1940) President Haudecoeur
as President Haudecoeur
(1914) Monsieur Lecoq
as ---
(1916) The Gold Chignon
as ---
(1934) Rothchild
as Rothchild
(1931) Polish Jew
as Mathias
(1934) Moscow Nights
as Piotr Brioukow
(1931) The Lost Course
as Le Capitaine Kell
(1910) L'Évasion de Vidocq
as Vidocq
(1909) La Jeunesse de Vidocq ou Comment on devient policier
as Vidocq
(1978) Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
as Self (archive footage)