Harry Baur

Son of a watchmaker and jeweler of Lorraine origin, Harry Baur aspires to become a sailor. After a childhood in Paris, he fled from a religious institution and went to Marseille. After a few months of running away, he was called to order by his mother, who sent him to continue his education in Saint-Nazaire. He then returned to the city of Marseille, where he enrolled in hydrography school but the unruly teenager was not long in being expelled.

His dreams of a sailor gone, Harry Baur turned to acting, even if he was also good at singing. A student at the Marseille Conservatory, he emerged, at 19, with a First Prize for comedy and a Second Prize for tragedy. If he had already played a few small roles, his theatrical career really began in 1907 when Firmin Gémier hired him at the Théâtre Antoine. With his massive presence and his powerful voice, he becomes a star of the boards, creating pieces of Guitry or Tristan Bernard, but is only from afar interested in the Seventh art. From "La Jeunesse de Vidocq" in 1909, he nonetheless turns in about forty silent films.

Harry Baur imposed himself on the big screen with the development of talking cinema in the early 1930s, when he was already 50 years old. Julien Duvivier offered him the role of Jewish banker David Golder in a successful 1931 melodrama, which marked the beginning of a fruitful collaboration. Thanks to the filmmaker, he will notably play the father of Poil de Carotte (1932) and Commissioner Maigret in La Tête d'un homme (1933). A charismatic actor with a taste for disguise, he passes easily from the role of a tramp ("Rotchild") to M. de Tréville in Les Trois mousquetaires. It is another hero of literature who allows him to deliver one of his most applauded performances in 1934: in Les Misérables by Raymond Bernard, a fresco in three parts, he plays an unforgettable Jean Valjean, generous and pathetic.

Of the caliber of a Raimu (which he replaced at the theater in Fanny de Pagnol), Harry Baur shows off his corpulent figure and his gaze sometimes worried and sometimes disturbing in films imbued with Russian culture: Commissioner Porphyre facing the student Pierre Blanchar in Crime and Punishment (1935), he plays a wheat merchant in Les Nuits Moscovites (and in his English-speaking remake!), but also Rasputin (The Imperial Tragedy) and Tsar Paul I (The Patriot). The hero of many historical and biographical films, he plays the Emperor Rudolf in The Golem of his old accomplice Duvivier, Ludwig van Beethoven in front of the camera of Abel Gance (1936) or even "Tarass Bulba". This boat lover impresses in Mollenard, a rabid and wounded privateer captain,

In 1941, Harry Baur appeared in The Assassination of Father Christmas by Christian-Jaque, the first feature film of the Continental, a company financed by German capital but installed on the Champs-Elysées. However, the actor - who debuted in "David Golder" or "The Polish Jew" - is the subject of an anti-Semitic press campaign, to which he responds awkwardly by certifying - supporting documents - that 'he is indeed Aryan. Seen in the company of artists from the Nazi regime who came to Paris, he even signed a contract with Tobis, a German production company. In 1942, at the end of the filming of Symphonie eines Lebens in Berlin, he returned to Paris, where he was arrested by the Gestapo, with his wife, on May 30. After three months of ill-treatment and mental torture, he will be released in September. Very weakened, he died a few months later. Ten years after his death, at the Maison de la Chimie, a great tribute will be paid to him by the profession, from Sacha Guitry to Maurice Chevalier.

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Harry Baur Net Worth 2021

Harry Baur 's revenue is $1.5M in 2021. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Harry Baur and could vary in the range between $766.9K - $1.4M.

Harry Baur Net Worth 2020

Harry Baur 's revenue is $2M in 2020. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Harry Baur and could vary in the range between $722.3K - $2M.

Harry Baur Net Worth 2019

Harry Baur 's revenue is $1.6M in 2019. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Harry Baur and could vary in the range between $923.2K - $1.2M.

Harry Baur Net Worth 2018

Harry Baur 's revenue is $1.2M in 2018. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Harry Baur and could vary in the range between $799.6K - $1.9M.

Harry Baur Net Worth 2017

Harry Baur 's revenue is $1.2M in 2017. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Harry Baur and could vary in the range between $555.3K - $1.6M.

Harry Baur Net Worth 2016

Harry Baur 's revenue is $1.7M in 2016. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Harry Baur and could vary in the range between $674.6K - $1.1M.

Harry Baur Net Worth 2015

Harry Baur 's revenue is $1.5M in 2015. It is an approximate forecast of how rich is Harry Baur and could vary in the range between $572.9K - $1.4M.

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