Harry Baur

Personal Info

Birthday

April 12, 1880

Day of Death

1943-04-08

(62 years old)

Place of Birth

Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France

Also Known As

Henri-Marie Baur

Henri Marie Rodolphe Baur

Henri-Marie "Harry" Baur

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 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.