Harry Baur

Initially a stage actor, he was described by film academic Ginette Vincendeau as a corpulent man with a resonant voice, his stagey performance style ranged from the hammy ... to the soberly moving. Baur appeared in about 80 films between 1909 and 1942. He gave an acclaimed performance as the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in the biopic Beethovens Great Love , directed by Abel Gance, and as Jean Valjean in Raymond Bernards version of Les Misrables . He also acted in VictorinHippolyte Jassets silent film, Beethoven , and in La voyante , Sarah Bernhardts last film.

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