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Werner Krauss

Werner Krauss

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

Lowest Rated: 71% 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).

Highest rated movies

96% The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
71% Joyless Street

Photos

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, (aka THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI, aka DAS CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI), Werner Krauss (back), 1920 THE JOYLESS STREET, (aka DIE FREUDLOSE GASSE), Greta Garbo, Werner Krauss, 1925 CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, (aka DAS KABINETT DES DOKTOR CALIGARI), Lil Dagover (extreme left), Werner Krauss (center in black), Conrad Veidt (front, second from right), 1920 CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, (aka DAS KABINETT DES DOKTOR CALIGARI), Werner Krauss, 1920 CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, 1920 CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, (aka DAS KABINETT DES DOKTOR CALIGARI), Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, 1920 THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, (aka THE CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI, aka DAS CABINET DES DR. CALIGARI), Werner Krauss, 1920 HERR TARTUFF, (aka TARTUFFE), Lil Dagover, Werner Krauss, 1926 OTHELLO, Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, 1922 CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI, (aka DAS KABINETT DES DOKTOR CALIGARI), Lil Dagover, Werner Krauss, CVonrad Veidt, 1920 CABINET OF DOCTOR CALIGARI, Lil Dagover, Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, 1920
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Falling Star Lenura / Lenoir (Character) - 1950
No Score Yet 32% Jew Süss Rabbi Loew/Levy - Oppenheimers Sekretär/Schächter Isaak/seniler Alte (Character) - 1940
No Score Yet No Score Yet A Royal Scandal Theobald Maske (Character) - 1927
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Student of Prague Scapinelli, Wucherer (Character) - 1926
No Score Yet 65% Secrets of a Soul Martin Fellman (Character) - 1926
No Score Yet 67% Nana Comte Muffat (Character) - 1926
71% 60% Joyless Street Unknown (Character) - 1925
No Score Yet 50% Waxworks Jack the Ripper/Spring-Heeled Jack (Character) - 1924
No Score Yet No Score Yet The Ancient Law Nathan, der Professor (Character) - 1923
No Score Yet No Score Yet Das alte Gesetz (This Ancient Law) Unknown (Character) - 1923
No Score Yet 86% The Burning Soil Old Rog (Character) - 1922
No Score Yet No Score Yet Othello Iago (Character) - 1922
No Score Yet No Score Yet Opium Nung-Tschang (Character) - 1920
96% 89% The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari Dr. Caligari (Character) - 1919