Personal Info
Birth date
1884-06-23 (141 Years)
Day of death
1959-10-20
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Gestungshausen, Sonnefeld, Bavaria, Germany
Also known as
Вернер Краусс
Werner Krauss
Werner Johannes Krauss
Werner Krauß
Werner Krauss
Biography
Werner Johannes Krauss (Krauß in German; 23 June 1884 – 20 October 1959) was a German stage and film actor. Krauss dominated the German stage of the early 20th century. However, his participation in the 1940 antisemitic propaganda film Jud Süß (Süss, the Jew) and his collaboration with the Nazis made him a controversial figure.
Filmography
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
7.927
Overview:
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.Waxworks
6.438
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A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.The Joyless Street
6.852
Overview:
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.Nana
6.625
Overview:
Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.Universal Horror
7.105
Overview:
A documentary about the era of classic monster movies that were made at Universal Studios during the 1930s and 1940s.Süss, the Jew
4.3
Overview:
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.Paracelsus
5.8
Overview:
The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to the world as Paracelsus.Tartuffe
7.2
Overview:
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.The Treasure
6.5
Overview:
On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions of the protagonists conveyed as much through symbolism as action.The Burning Soil
6.273
Overview:
The film follows tells the story of a struggle over a plot of petroleum-rich land.Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
5.8
Overview:
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.Variety
6.792
Overview:
The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.Napoleon at St. Helena
4.833
Overview:
Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph and Albert Bassermann. The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 1821 during his period of exile on the British Atlantic island of Saint Helena following his defeat at Waterloo.Danton
5.7
Overview:
At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.The Ancient Law
6.3
Overview:
Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor.Burg Theatre
8
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In this convoluted melodrama, an elderly thespian falls for a rising young starlet. He admits his love for her and then announces that he will retire. The young woman pretends she loves him too, but her real motive is to give her struggling lover, also an aspiring actor, a break.Annelie
6.8
Overview:
On New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated her birth to be exactly at midnight. These 15 minutes will again and again become the girl′s fate.Secrets of a Soul
6.233
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Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of madness by fantastic nightmares, he encounters a psychoanalyst who offers to treat the perplexing malady.One Does Not Play with Love
NYR
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The film is an adaptation of the 1834 play by Alfred de Musset, On ne badine pas avec l'amour. The film is considered to be a lost film.Jealousy
5
Overview:
A couple are at the theatre with a playwright friend. At the end of the play the jealous husband strangles his wife to death. When the play ends, the man talks to his friend about such a nonsensical finale, telling the author that no man with any sense ever gets jealous enough to choke his wife in these modern times. The playwright decides to test this supposedly perfect couple about their happy feelings for each other.I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
5.1
Overview:
From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain.Yorck
NYR
Overview:
The story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who defied the king's orders for the Prussian army to join Napoleon in his invason of Russia.Prostitution
NYR
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Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into it.The Jew of Mestri
5.3
Overview:
The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a free adaptation of "Merchant of Venice" written by Herr William Shakespeare. It is an elegant and expensive German film production that was shot on location in beautiful and decadent Venice with some of the most important Teutonic actors of the time: Henny Porten, Harry Liedtke und Werner Krauss and even the mysterious Max Schreck.The Student of Prague
6.543
Overview:
For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...Acting
2011Jedermann Remixed as Death (archive footage)
1998Universal Horror as (archive footage)
1958The Tell-Tale Heart as The Old Man
1957Landesschau Baden-Württemberg (1 Episode) as self
1957Bacchus as Gesandter des Vatikans
1955Sohn ohne Heimat as Wilhelm Hartmann
1950The Fallen Star as Lenura / Lenoir
1950Prämien auf den Tod as Dr. Schmidt
1943Paracelsus as Paracelsus
1942The Dismissal as Geheimrat von Holstein
1942Zwischen Himmel und Erde as Justus Rottwinkel
1941Annelie as Katasteramtsrat Reinhold Dörensen
1940Süss, the Jew as Rabbi Loew
1939Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes as Geheimrat Rudolf Virchow
1939Der letzte Appell as Unknown
1936Burg Theatre as Friedrich Mitterer
1935Hundert Tage as Napoleon
1932The Man Without a Name as Heinrich Martin
1931Yorck as General Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg
1929Napoleon at St. Helena as Napoleon
1928Looping the Loop as Botto
1928Die Hölle der Jungfrauen as Mistkowski
1927The Merry Farmer as Unknown
1927Radio Magic as Theophil Schimmelpfenning
1927Make Up as Kitty Lerron
1927Die Hose as Theobald Maske
1927The Vice of Humanity as Willibald Cooks
1927Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit as Ibrahim Hulam
1926One Does Not Play with Love as Fürst Colalto
1926Superfluous People as Ortspolizist Suka
1926Das graue Haus as Unknown
1926The Student of Prague as Scapinelli, Wucherer
1926Nana as Count Muffat
1926Secrets of a Soul as Martin Fellman
1926Tartuffe as Herr Orgon
1926The House of Lies as Hjalmar Ekdal
1926The Wife's Crusade as Der Idiot
1925Die Dame aus Berlin as Anton Zöllner
1925Variety as Unknown
1925Der Trödler von Amsterdam as Arent Bergh
1925The Morals of the Alley as Viehhändler engros
1925Jealousy as Mann - Georges Ménard
1925Reveille, das große Wecken as Unknown
1925The Joyless Street as Josef Geiringer
1924Waxworks as Jack the Ripper / Spring-Heeled Jack
1924The Film in the Film as Self
1924Decameron Nights as Soldan
1923I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity as Pontius Pilatus
1923The Doll Maker of Kiang-Ning as Unknown
1923The Ancient Law as Nathan, der Professor
1923Alt Heidelberg as Dr. Jüttner
1923The Jew of Mestri as Shylock (Mordecai)
1923Fräulein Raffke as Emil Raffke
1923Between Evening and Morning as Unknown
1923Adam und Eva as Eddie Gloon
1923The Treasure as Svetelenz
1923The Unknown Tomorrow as Marc Muradock
1922Nathan der Weise as Nathan
1922The Burning Soil as Der alte Rog / Old Rog
1922Othello as Iago
1922Die Beute der Erinnyen as Unknown
1921Zirkus des Lebens as Philipp Hogger
1921Lady Hamilton as Lord William Hamilton
1921Der Tanz um Liebe und Glück as Unknown
1921The House in Dragon Street as Walter
1921Shattered as Bahnwärter
1921Danton as Robespierre
1921Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon as Unknown
1920Die Kwannon von Okadera as Harlander
1920Die Frau im Himmel as Tatjana's father
1920Die Frau ohne Seele as Unknown
1920Johannes Goth as Unknown
1920Ewiger Strom as Ferryman
1920The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as Dr. Caligari
1920Opfer as Premier
1919Spiritismus as Unknown
1919The Dance of Death as The Cripple
1919Das ewige Rätsel as Unknown
1919Rose Bernd as Der alte Bernd
1919Die Pagode as Dr. Remus
1919Mazeppa, Folk Hero of the Ukraine as Mazeppa
1919Die Insel der Glücklichen as Dr. Wenning
1919Prostitution as Mann
1919Das verwunschene Schloß as Bauer Grödner
1919Opium as Nung-Tschang
1919Das Mädchen und die Männer as Unknown
1919Phantome des Lebens as Unknown
1919Die Frau mit den Orchideen as Unknown
1918The Story of Dida Ibsen as Philipp Galen
1918Colomba as Gonzales
1918Diary of a Lost Woman as Meinert
1918Der Prozeß Hauers as Unknown
1918Es werde Licht! 3. Teil as Waldemar Gorsky
1918Madame d'Ora as Unknown
1918Das Gift der Medici as Unknown
1917Die Tochter der Gräfin Stachowska as Unknown
1917Das Bacchanal des Todes as Unknown
1917A Night of Horror as The artist
1917Wenn Frauen lieben und hassen as Unknown
1916Freitag, der 13. Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil as Prof. Cardallhan
1916Der chinesische Götze. Das unheimliche Haus. 3. Teil as Franz Mollheim
1916The Uncanny House as Albert von Sievers
1916Everyman as Death
1916Revenge of the Dead as Dorfschulze Paul Horvath
1916Zirkusblut as Unknown
1916Tales of Hoffmann as Conte Dapertutto
1914Stuart Webbs: Die geheimnisvolle Villa as Unknown