- Born: Jul 23, 1884 in Gestungshausen, Germany
- Died: Oct 20, 1959 in Vienna, Austria
- Occupation: Actor
- Active: teens-'20s
- Major Genres: Drama
- Career Highlights: Die Freudlose Gasse, Der Student von Prag, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
- First Major Screen Credit: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)
Werner Krauss
| Actor: Werner Krauss |
| Filmography: Werner Krauss |
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| Werner Krauss | |
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 Krauss as Dr. Caligari in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) |
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| Born | 23 June 1884 Gestungshausen, Germany |
| Died | 20 October 1959 (aged 75) Vienna, Austria |
Werner Johannes Krauss (Krauß in German) (23 June 1884 – 20 October 1959) was a German stage and film actor.
Krauss was born in Gestungshausen, Germany, the son of a clergyman. He ran away from home and joined a travelling theatre company. There, he met the noted theatre director Max Reinhardt. Reinhardt took Krauss to Berlin where he became a film actor in 1916.
Krauss became a worldwide sensation for his demonic portrayal of the titular character in Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. He also played the title role of William Shakespeare's Othello in a 1920 adaption, and played Iago in a 1922 adaptation. He was prominently featured in Paul Leni's Waxworks (1924), Ewald Andre Dupont's Varieté (1925), F.W. Murnau's Herr Tartüff, and The Student of Prague (1926).
When Adolf Hitler came to power, Krauss developed a Nazi ideology. He was made an Actor of the State by Joseph Goebbels, and subsequently played the roles of two stereotypical Jewish characters – Rabbi Loew and Sekretar Levy – in Veit Harlan's notoriously anti-Semitic Jud Süß (1940). He also played Shylock in an extreme production of The Merchant of Venice staged at Vienna's Burgtheater in 1943. After World War II, Krauss was 'forgiven' to the extent of being invited to German film festivals.
Krauss died in relative obscurity in Vienna, Austria in 1959. He was cremated.
Filmography
- 1914: Die Pagode
- 1914: Die geheimnisvolle Villa
- 1915: Die vertauschte Braut
- 1916: Nächte des Grauens
- 1916: Die Bettlerin von St. Marien
- 1916: Hoffmanns Erzählungen
- 1916: Zirkusblut
- 1916: Die Rache der Toten
- 1916: Das unheimliche Haus
- 1916: Der chinesische Götze
- 1916: Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil
- 1917: Unheilbar
- 1917: Die schöne Prinzessin von China
- 1917: Das Bacchanal des Todes
- 1917; Die Pagode
- 1917: Die Fremde
- 1917: Gesühnte Schuld
- 1917: E, der scharlachrote Buchstabe
- 1917: Die Tochter der Gräfin Stachowska
- 1917: Fräulein Pfiffikus
- 1918: Die schleichende Gefahr
- 1918: Wenn Frauen lieben und hassen
- 1918: Es werde Licht! 3. Teil
- 1918: Der Prozeß Hauers
- 1918: Das verwunschene Schloß
- 1918: Das Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
- 1918: Dida Ibsens Geschichte
- 1918: Colomba
- 1918: Madame d'Ora
- 1918: Mazeppa, der Held der Ukraine
- 1918: Der Friedensreiter
- 1919: Opium
- 1919: Prostitution / Das gelbe Haus
- 1919: Das Mädchen und die Männer
- 1919: Ewiger Strom
- 1919: Totentanz
- 1919: Die Frau mit den Orchideen
- 1919: Die Insel der Glücklichen
- 1919: Das ewige Rätsel
- 1919: Rose Bernd
- 1919: Phantome des Lebens
- 1919: Opfer
- 1920: The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (dir. Robert Wiene)
- 1920: Die Frau ohne Seele
- 1920: Johannes Goth
- 1920: Die Brüder Karamasoff
- 1920: Die Beichte einer Toten
- 1920: Sieger Tod
- 1920: Die Frau im Himmel
- 1920: Der Staatsanwalt
- 1920: Christian Wahnschaffe (2 Teile)
- 1920: Die Kwannon von Okadera
- 1921: Das Medium
- 1921: Danton
- 1921: Scherben (dir. Lupu Pick)
- 1921: Die Beute der Erinnyen
- 1921: Das Haus in der Dragonergasse
- 1921: Sturmflut des Lebens
- 1921: Fledermäuse
- 1921: Der Tanz um Liebe und Glück
- 1921: Der Roman der Christine von Herre
- 1921: Lady Hamilton
- 1921: Zirkus des Lebens
- 1922: Othello (dir. Dimitri Buchowetzki)
- 1922: The Burning Soil
- 1922: Luise Millerin
- 1922: Nathan der Weise
- 1923: Alt-Heidelberg
- 1923: Der Schatz
- 1923: Fridericus Rex. 3. Teil: Sanssouci
- 1923: Der Menschenfeind
- 1923: Adam und Eva
- 1923: Der Puppenmacher von Kiang-Ning
- 1923: Zwischen Abend und Morgen
- 1923: Der Kaufmann von Venedig
- 1923: Fräulein Raffke
- 1923: Der unbekannte Morgen
- 1923: Das alte Gesetz
- 1923: I.N.R.I.
- 1924: Waxworks (dir. Paul Leni)
- 1924: Dekameron-Nächte
- 1925: Ein Sommernachtstraum
- 1925: Reveille, das große Wecken
- 1925: Die freudlose Gasse (dir. Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
- 1925: Tartuffe (dir. Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau)
- 1925: Varieté (dir. E. A. Dupont)
- 1925: Eifersucht
- 1925: Der Trödler von Amsterdam
- 1925: Die Moral der Gasse
- 1925: Das Haus der Lüge
- 1925: Die Dame aus Berlin
- 1925: Nana (dir. Jean Renoir)
- 1926: Geheimnisse einer Seele
- 1926: Kreuzzug des Weibes
- 1926: Maria, die Geschichte eines Herzens / Das graue Haus
- 1926: The Student of Prague (dir. Henrik Galeen)
- 1926: Überflüssige Menschen
- 1926: Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe
- 1927: Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit
- 1927: Laster der Menschheit / Laster
- 1927: Da hält die Welt den Atem an / Maquillage
- 1927: Die Hose
- 1927: Der fidele Bauer
- 1927: Funkzauber
- 1927: Die Hölle der Jungfrauen
- 1928: Looping the Loop
- 1929: Napoleon auf St. Helena
- 1931: Yorck
- 1932: Mensch ohne Namen
- 1935: Hundert Tage
- 1936: Burgtheater (dir. Willi Forst)
- 1939: Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (dir. Hans Steinhoff)
- 1940: Jud Süß (dir. Veit Harlan)
- 1941: Annelie
- 1942: Zwischen Himmel und Erde
- 1942: Die Entlassung
- 1943: Paracelsus (dir. Georg Wilhelm Pabst)
- 1949: Prämien auf den Tod
- 1950: Der fallende Stern
- 1955: Sohn ohne Heimat
- 1958: Das verräterische Herz (TV)
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- Scherben (1921 Film)
- The Jolly Peasant (1929 Film)
- Decameron Nights (1924 Drama Film)
- Der Schatz (1923 Drama Film)
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- Die Freudlose Gasse (1925 Drama Film)
- Herr Tartuff (1927 Comedy Film)
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