
Harry Baur
Acting
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 Bernhardt's last film. In 1942, while in Berlin, to star in his last film Symphone eines Lebens, Baur's w…
Also known as
Henri-Marie Baur · Henri Marie Rodolphe Baur · Henri-Marie "Harry" Baur
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Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
1978 · TV

Les Misérables
1934 · Movie

Rothchild
1934 · Movie

Golgotha
1935 · Movie

Who Killed Santa Claus?
1941 · Movie

The Life and Loves of Beethoven
1937 · Movie

Sarati the Terrible
1937 · Movie

Volpone
1941 · Movie

A Man's Head
1933 · Movie

A Man and His Woman
1934 · Movie

Life Dances On
1937 · Movie

The Postmaster's Daughter
1938 · Movie