Werner Krauss
Born: 1884-06-23 in Gestungshausen, Sonnefeld, Bavaria, Germany
Died: 1959-10-20
Known For: Acting
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
2011
- Jedermann Remixed as Death (archive footage)
1998
- Universal Horror as (archive footage)
1958
- The Tell-Tale Heart as The Old Man
1957
- Landesschau Baden-Württemberg as self
- Bacchus as Gesandter des Vatikans
1955
- Sohn ohne Heimat as Wilhelm Hartmann
1950
- Prämien auf den Tod as Dr. Schmidt
- The Fallen Star as Lenura / Lenoir
1943
- Paracelsus as Paracelsus
1942
- The Dismissal as Geheimrat von Holstein
- Between Heaven and Earth as Justus Rottwinkel
1941
- Annelie as Katasteramtsrat Reinhold Dörensen
1940
- Süss, the Jew as Rabbi Loew
1939
- Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes as Geheimrat Rudolf Virchow
- Der letzte Appell
1936
- Burg Theatre as Friedrich Mitterer
1935
- Hundert Tage as Napoleon
1932
- The Man Without a Name as Heinrich Martin
1931
- Yorck as General Ludwig Yorck von Wartenburg
1929
- Napoleon at St. Helena as Napoleon
1928
- Die Hölle der Jungfrauen as Mistkowski
- Looping the Loop as Botto
1927
- The Merry Farmer
- The Vice of Humanity as Willibald Cooks
- Die Hose as Theobald Maske
- Radio Magic as Theophil Schimmelpfenning
- Make Up as Kitty Lerron
- Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit as Ibrahim Hulam
1926
- Secrets of a Soul as Martin Fellman
- Nana as Count Muffat
- Tartuffe as Herr Orgon
- The House of Lies as Hjalmar Ekdal
- Superfluous People as Ortspolizist Suka
- The Student of Prague as Scapinelli, Wucherer
- One Does Not Play with Love as Fürst Colalto
- The Wife's Crusade as Der Idiot
- Das graue Haus
1925
- Joyless Street as Josef Geiringer
- Variety
- Jealousy as Mann - Georges Ménard
- The Morals of the Alley as Viehhändler engros
- Der Trödler von Amsterdam as Arent Bergh
- Reveille, das große Wecken
- Die Dame aus Berlin as Anton Zöllner
1924
- Waxworks as Jack the Ripper / Spring-Heeled Jack
- The Film in the Film as Self
- Decameron Nights as Soldan
1923
- The Unknown Tomorrow as Marc Muradock
- The Treasure as Svetelenz
- The Jew of Mestri as Shylock (Mordecai)
- The Ancient Law as Nathan, der Professor
- I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity as Pontius Pilatus
- The Doll Maker of Kiang-Ning
- Between Evening and Morning as Sagan
- Alt Heidelberg as Dr. Jüttner
- Adam und Eva as Eddie Gloon
- Fräulein Raffke as Emil Raffke
1922
- The Burning Soil as Der alte Rog / Old Rog
- Othello as Iago
- Die Beute der Erinnyen
- Nathan der Weise as Nathan
1921
- Shattered as Bahnwärter
- Danton as Robespierre
- Lady Hamilton as Lord William Hamilton
- Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
- Zirkus des Lebens as Philipp Hogger
- Der Tanz um Liebe und Glück
- The House in Dragon Street as Walter
1920
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as Dr. Caligari
- Opfer as Premier
- Johannes Goth
- Ewiger Strom as Ferryman
- Die Frau im Himmel as Tatjana's father
- Die Frau ohne Seele
- Die Kwannon von Okadera as Harlander
1919
- Opium as Nung-Tschang
- Mazeppa, Folk Hero of the Ukraine as Mazeppa
- The Dance of Death as The Cripple
- Prostitution as Mann
- Die Pagode as Dr. Remus
- Die Frau mit den Orchideen
- Rose Bernd as Der alte Bernd
- Das ewige Rätsel
- Spiritismus
- Die Insel der Glücklichen as Dr. Wenning
- Phantome des Lebens
- Das verwunschene Schloß as Bauer Grödner
- Das Mädchen und die Männer
1918
- Es werde Licht! 3. Teil as Waldemar Gorsky
- The Story of Dida Ibsen as Philipp Galen
- Diary of a Lost Woman as Meinert
- Colomba as Gonzales
- Der Prozeß Hauers
- Das Gift der Medici
- Madame d'Ora
1917
1916
- Freitag, der 13. Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil as Prof. Cardallhan
- Zirkusblut
- Tales of Hoffmann as Conte Dapertutto
- The Uncanny House as Albert von Sievers
- Revenge of the Dead as Dorfschulze Paul Horvath
- Der chinesische Götze. Das unheimliche Haus. 3. Teil as Franz Mollheim
- Everyman as Death