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
- Looping the Loop as Botto
- Die Hölle der Jungfrauen as Mistkowski
1927
- The Merry Farmer
- Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit as Ibrahim Hulam
- Die Hose as Theobald Maske
- Make Up as Kitty Lerron
- Radio Magic as Theophil Schimmelpfenning
- The Vice of Humanity as Willibald Cooks
1926
- Nana as Count Muffat
- Secrets of a Soul as Martin Fellman
- The Student of Prague as Scapinelli, Wucherer
- Tartuffe as Herr Orgon
- The House of Lies as Hjalmar Ekdal
- Das graue Haus
- The Wife's Crusade as Der Idiot
- One Does Not Play with Love as Fürst Colalto
- Superfluous People as Ortspolizist Suka
1925
- Jealousy as Mann - Georges Ménard
- Joyless Street as Josef Geiringer
- Variety
- The Morals of the Alley as Viehhändler engros
- Reveille, das große Wecken
- Die Dame aus Berlin as Anton Zöllner
- Der Trödler von Amsterdam as Arent Bergh
1924
- Decameron Nights as Soldan
- Waxworks as Jack the Ripper / Spring-Heeled Jack
- The Film in the Film as Self
1923
- Fräulein Raffke as Emil Raffke
- I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity as Pontius Pilatus
- The Ancient Law as Nathan, der Professor
- Between Evening and Morning as Sagan
- The Jew of Mestri as Shylock (Mordecai)
- The Doll Maker of Kiang-Ning
- The Treasure as Svetelenz
- The Unknown Tomorrow as Marc Muradock
- Adam und Eva as Eddie Gloon
- The Student Prince as Dr. Jüttner
1922
- Othello as Iago
- The Burning Soil as Der alte Rog / Old Rog
- Die Beute der Erinnyen
- Nathan der Weise as Nathan
1921
- Danton as Robespierre
- Lady Hamilton as Lord William Hamilton
- Der Tanz um Liebe und Glück
- Shattered as Bahnwärter
- Christian Wahnschaffe II: Escape from the Golden Dungeon
- The House in Dragon Street as Walter
- Zirkus des Lebens as Philipp Hogger
1920
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as Dr. Caligari
- Johannes Goth
- Opfer as Premier
- Die Frau im Himmel as Tatjana's father
- Ewiger Strom as Ferryman
- Die Kwannon von Okadera as Harlander
- Die Frau ohne Seele
1919
- The Dance of Death as The Cripple
- Opium as Nung-Tschang
- Rose Bernd as Der alte Bernd
- Spiritismus
- Das Mädchen und die Männer
- Mazeppa, Folk Hero of the Ukraine as Mazeppa
- Die Frau mit den Orchideen
- Prostitution as Mann
- Die Insel der Glücklichen as Dr. Wenning
- Das verwunschene Schloß as Bauer Grödner
- Das ewige Rätsel
- Phantome des Lebens
- Die Pagode as Dr. Remus
1918
- Colomba as Gonzales
- The Story of Dida Ibsen as Philipp Galen
- Diary of a Lost Woman as Meinert
- Es werde Licht! 3. Teil as Waldemar Gorsky
- Der Prozeß Hauers
- Das Gift der Medici
- Madame d'Ora
1917
1916
- Zirkusblut
- Everyman as Death
- Tales of Hoffmann as Conte Dapertutto
- Revenge of the Dead as Dorfschulze Paul Horvath
- Der chinesische Götze. Das unheimliche Haus. 3. Teil as Franz Mollheim
- The Uncanny House as Albert von Sievers
- Freitag, der 13. Das unheimliche Haus. 2. Teil as Prof. Cardallhan