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Werner Krauss

Highest Rated: 96% The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919)

Lowest Rated: 67% Joyless Street (1925)

Birthday: Jun 23, 1884

Birthplace: Gestungshausen, Germany

Distinguished stage actor who entered film in the early 1910s and, beginning with "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919), gained international recognition as one of the central performers of German expressionist cinema. Krauss later appeared in several Nazi propaganda films, the most notorious of which was "Jew Suss" (1940).

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Highest-Rated Movies

96% 89% The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
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67% 60% Joyless Street
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Opium
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62% Secrets of a Soul
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The Student of Prague
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50% Waxworks
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32% Jew Süss
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A Royal Scandal
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75% The Burning Soil
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The Ancient Law
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Filmography

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The Falling Star 1950 Lenura / Lenoir Actor Jew Süss 32% 1940 Rabbi Loew/Levy - Oppenheimers Sekretär/Schächter Isaak/seniler Alte Actor A Royal Scandal 1927 Theobald Maske Actor Secrets of a Soul 62% 1926 Martin Fellman Actor The Student of Prague 1926 Scapinelli, Wucherer Actor Nana 67% 1926 Comte Muffat Actor Joyless Street 67% 60% 1925 Actor Waxworks 50% 1924 Jack the Ripper/Spring-Heeled Jack Actor The Ancient Law 1923 Nathan, der Professor Actor Das alte Gesetz (This Ancient Law) 1923 Actor The Burning Soil 75% 1922 Old Rog Actor Othello 1922 Iago Actor Opium 1920 Nung-Tschang Actor The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari 96% 89% 1919 Dr. Caligari Actor
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