Harry Baur

Harry Baur ( born April 12, 1880 in Paris, † April 8, 1943 ibid; actually Henri -Marie Baur ) was a French actor.

Life

Harry Baur had his first involvement with the film in 1913. His later career he owed his encounter with Julien Duvivier 1930. During the following years and until 1942, he starred in 30 films and was a leading film actor in France.

After the German occupation of France, he had engagements German film companies and was given the male lead in symphony of a life of Hans Bertram on the side of Henny Porten and Gisela Uhlen. When the film is completed in September 1942, Baur played for Joseph Goebbels " beyond criticism " but Goebbels " is the case Bauer pursue " because it " is accused by our Parisian departments that he was a Jew. ". The German Nazis retaliated for the " shame " of having an alleged Jews honored. He and his wife Rika Radifé were arrested on 30 May 1942. He was born four months later, on September 19, 1942, seriously ill again free. He did not recover from effects of his imprisonment.

Henri -Marie Baur died in 1943 at the age of 62 years in Paris and was buried in the Cimetière Saint- Vincent Catholic.

He embodied, among others, Jean Valjean in Les Misérables, the (1934 ).

Filmography (selection)

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