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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 Self (archive footage)
as Stefan Melchior, Dorfkantor
as Monsieur Lacalade
as Gaspard Cornusse
as Volpone
as Docteur Bourdet
as President Haudecoeur
as Tsar Paul 1st
as Virine, le maitre de poste
as Taras Bulba
as Rasputin
as le capitaine Mollenard
as Alain Regnault
as Cesar Sarati
as Ludwig van Beethoven
as Tarass Boulba
as Jacques Brachart
as Bourron
as L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème
as Ivan Ivanovitch Petroff
as Porphyre
as Hérode
as Peter Brioukow
as Piotr Brioukow
as Papon
as Rothchild
as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
as Commissaire Jules Maigret
as Warden Brady
as Guillaume Vautier
as M. de Tréville
as Mr. Lepic
as M. de Marouvelle
as Mathias
as Le Capitaine Kell
as David Golder
as Monsieur Detaille
as Harry Podge
as Vidocq
