I think the motion picture industry is a stupid business and I despise acting the scenes in short snatches, one at a time. I hate this film work. I am disgusted with myself. On the stage I could never play a part unless I felt it with all my heart and soul.
Conrad Veidt Quotes
I turned down the first script offered to me, and the second. I lay on my back one day under an umbrella, in the garden, reading the third, and wondered why I had turned down the first.
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| Birth: | 22nd January, 1893 |
| Death: | 3rd April, 1943 |
| Nationality: | German |
| Profession: | Actor |
About
Hans Walter Conrad Veidt was born in Berlin, Germany. He was a German actor best remembered for his roles in films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man Who Laughs, and, after being forced to emigrate to Britain by the rise of Nazism in Germany, his English-speaking roles in The Thief of Bagdad, and, in Hollywood, Casablanca. From 1916 until his death, Veidt appeared in more than 100 films. He had a leading role in Germany's first talking picture, Das Land ohne Frauen.
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