Harry Baur
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1880-04-12
Locus Natus: Montrouge, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], Île-de-France, France
Et ut: Henri-Marie Baur, Henri Marie Rodolphe Baur
Nitchevo
A commander suspects his wife of infidelity, when she turns to a subordinate officer to help her against someone threatening to blackmail her about...
release : 1936.12.18popularis : 1.771
Who Killed Santa Claus?
A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père...
release : 1941.10.16popularis : 3.832
Volpone
Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to...
release : 1941.05.10popularis : 2.974
Crime and Punishment
Pierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of German Expressionism and serves as...
release : 1935.05.17popularis : 1.303
Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both...
release : 1934.02.09popularis : 3.636
Behold the Man
The final days of Jesus from the time he enters the city of Jerusalem. Viewed as a threat, it is decided that he must be captured, tried, and...
release : 1935.01.01popularis : 2.695
Samson
An aristocratic woman is coerced by her impoverished family into marrying a wealthy business tycoon.
release : 1936.03.04popularis : 2.215
Criminal
A wrongfully convicted man finds himself suspected of a crime committed in his prison.
release : 1933.01.06popularis : 0.437
A Man and His Woman
An honest civil servant learns about his wife’s infidelity. He pretends not to be aware of it and decides to start a businessman career. He...
release : 1934.11.09popularis : 0.58
The Secrets of the Red Sea
Said Ali, an old and sick noble Arab, living on an island in the Red Sea, has no other occupation than collecting pearls. The spiteful Nadir tries to...
release : 1937.09.08popularis : 1.803
A Man's Neck
Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a...
release : 1933.02.18popularis : 4.421
Life Dances On
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth,...
release : 1937.09.09popularis : 2.305
Hatred
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the...
release : 1938.01.26popularis : 4.513
The Red Head
A red-haired boy is his mother's punching bag; only his father's presence is a great comfort to him, but this weak man is under the shrew's thumb....
release : 1932.11.04popularis : 2.819
The Clairvoyant
Jean is thrown out of the house by his father, a remarried politician, out of jealousy for his friendship with his mother-in-law. He finds refuge at...
release : 1924.10.31popularis : 0.889
David Golder
David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris,...
release : 1931.03.06popularis : 1.954
Moon over Morocco
When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five French tourists find themselves cursed by an Arabic...
release : 1931.10.29popularis : 1.331
Moscow Nights
During the First World War, Russian officer Ignatoff, wounded, falls in love with his nurse, Natasha. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of...
release : 1935.11.05popularis : 0.949
The Golem
The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
release : 1936.02.06popularis : 7.229
The Rebel Son
During the 16th century the Cossacks and their Ukraine homeland is ruled by Poland. This is the story of the leader of the Cossacks and how his son...
release : 1938.02.02popularis : 2.121
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
release : 1937.01.15popularis : 1.014
African Diary
During a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and the natives seek protection against witch doctors.
release : 1940.06.25popularis : 1.29
The Postmaster's Daughter
A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing...
release : 1938.03.03popularis : 0.676
L'Assommoir
Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is...
release : 1908.12.21popularis : 1.11
Stars Never Die
For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film clips of such Gallic greats as Louis...
release : 1957.05.07popularis : 1.049
Rasputin
Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
release : 1938.01.28popularis : 1.868
Sarati the Terrible
In Algiers, Cesar Sarati who grudges the dockers, is, without realizing it, in love with his niece. But Rose loves Gilbert, a former gambler and...
release : 1937.07.30popularis : 0.754
Taras Bulba
In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.
release : 1936.03.05popularis : 1.264
Sins of Youth
A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four...
release : 1941.11.16popularis : 1.979
The Old Devil
Vautier, a wealthy surgeon in his fifties, falls in love with Hélène, a young woman from a modest background. He allows her to have a...
release : 1933.01.01popularis : 0.991
The Three Musketeers
Young d'Artagnan leaves Gascony for Paris where he hopes to become a Musketeer of the Guard. He does meet three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and...
release : 1932.12.09popularis : 0.565
The New Men
Dedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern Morocco. After a historical prologue where we see...
release : 1936.03.04popularis : 0.815
Le Patriote
The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the mad despot by plotting to have him murdered.
release : 1938.06.05popularis : 1.469
Dark Eyes
In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and...
release : 1935.09.05popularis : 1.009
President Haudecoeur
A public prosecutor wants his son to marry an ugly girl(who has a squint) because her mom is very rich.But it's too late for the boy has already...
release : 1940.04.11popularis : 1.768
Monsieur Lecoq
Adaptation of the Émile Gaboriau novel.
release : 1914.05.15popularis : 0.453
Rothchild
An ex-businessman, ruined and reduced to living under bridges, uses the name of one of his companions in misfortune, Rothchild, to organize a vast...
release : 1934.05.04popularis : 0.923
Polish Jew
The story recounts the murder of an itinerant Jew (Jules Maurice)by the village Burgomaster (Harry Baur.) Years go by and Baur's crime does not weigh...
release : 1931.09.18popularis : 0.689
Moscow Nights
During the First World War, the Russian officer Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming...
release : 1934.11.21popularis : 0.269
The Lost Course
Bored with her life with her husband the lighthouse keeper, Hélène sleeps with two other men who fight for her.
release : 1931.04.03popularis : 0.961