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Werner Krauss was a German stage and film actor who dominated the early 20th century theatre and became a controversial figure for his Nazi collaboration. He starred in expressionist classics like The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Jud Süß, and was praised by Elisabeth Bergner and Oskar Werner.
Werner Krauß was a prominent stage and film actor in the early 20th century, known for his roles in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari and Süss, the Jew. He also participated in antisemitic propaganda films and worked with the Nazis, making him a controversial figure.
Werner Krauss (1884-1959) was a German actor who starred in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) and other films. He was also a Nazi propaganda actor and a minor war criminal.
- January 1, 1
- Gestungshausen, Sonnefeld, Bavaria, Germany
- January 1, 1
- Vienna, Austria
Werner Krauss was a German actor who starred in expressionist films such as The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. He was also a Nazi supporter and a minor war criminal who was convicted and fined after the war.
- June 23, 1884
- October 20, 1959
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...
Tomatometer®Audience ScoreTitleCreditNo Score YetNo Score YetLenura / Lenoir (Character)No Score YetRotten audience score. 32%Rabbi Loew/ Levy - Oppenheimers Sekretär/ ...No Score YetNo Score YetTheobald Maske (Character)No Score YetFresh audience score. 65%Martin Fellman (Character)Werner Krauss (7 June 1900 – 28 August 1976) was a German university professor (Romance studies). [1] During the 1940s he became a political activist and resistance fighter against the Nazi regime. In 1943 he was found guilty of preparing to commit high treason and condemned to death.
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the story of an insane hypnotist (Werner Krauss) who uses a brainwashed somnambulist (Conrad ...