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| 1893 | ||||
| 22/1 - | Conrad Veidt is born Hans Walter Conrad Weidt in Potsdam, Germany (some sources give Berlin as Veidt’s birthplace) [ADD] | |||
| 1901 | ||||
| - Veidt’s first taste of moving pictures - on a visit to a picture house with his mother - triggers his love of film. [ADD] | ||||
| 1905 | ||||
| - Graduates bottom of his class of thirteen from Berlin High School. [ADD] | ||||
| 1912 | ||||
| - Studies acting under Max Reinhardt, after being allowed to enrol for free by Albert Blumenreich, an employee of Reinhardt’s. [ADD] | ||||
| 1914 | ||||
| Dec - | Drafted into the German army. [ADD] | |||
| 1915 | ||||
| May - | Despatched to the Eastern Front. While fighting in Warsaw he contracts jaundice and pneumonia and is treated in a military hospital near the Baltic Sea. [ADD] | |||
| 1916 | ||||
| - After receiving an honourable discharge from the army, Veidt returns to Germany and re-joins the Deutsches Theater. [ADD] | ||||
| - Makes his screen debut in Der Weg des Todes (The Road to Death) [ADD] | ||||
| 1918 | ||||
| 18/6 - | Marries cabaret entertainer Gussy Holl [ADD] | |||
| 1919 | ||||
| 28/5 - | Plays possibly the first openly gay character written for the screen in the role of Paul Körner in Richard Oswald’s Andersals die Ander (Different from the Others). The absence of censorship laws in Germany at the time allow the film, a plea for the abolition of laws which prohibited homosexuality, to be made - but censors destroy most copies the following year. [ADD] | |||
| 1920 | ||||
| 26/2 - | Wins international acclaim for his role of the somnambulist in Robert Weine’s Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari. [ADD] | |||
| - Appears opposite an unknown Bela Lugosi in F. W. Murnau’s Der Januskopf., an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. [ADD] | ||||
| 1922 | ||||
| - Divorced from Gussy Holl [ADD] | ||||
| 1923 | ||||
| 18/4 - | Marries Felicitas Radke. [ADD] | |||
| 1925 | ||||
| 10/8 - | Wife Felicitas gives birth to their daughter, Viola Vera. [ADD] | |||
| 1926 | ||||
| - Makes his Hollywood debut in The Beloved Rogue - reportedly at the insistence of leading man John Barrymore. [ADD] | ||||
| 1929 | ||||
| - Returns to Europe following the birth of sound movies, despite being in the running for the lead role in Universal’s Dracula. [ADD] | ||||
| 1932 | ||||
| - Veidt’s regular travels take their toll on his marriage, and he and Felicitas divorce. Veidt initially has custody of their daughter Viola, but decides she will be better cared for by her mother. [ADD] | ||||
| 1933 | ||||
| 30/3 - | Marries Ilona (Lily) Prager, a Jewess. [ADD] | |||
| Apr - | Known as a committed anti-Nazi, - he once reportedly gave his religion as Jewish in response to a government questionnaire - Veidt successfully applies to leave the country. [ADD] | |||
| 1934 | ||||
| Briefly returns to Germany to make Guillaume Tell. Upon learning that he intends to make a film version of Jew Suss for Gaumont-British, the Nazis attempt to hold him as a ’guest of the State’ and inform Gaumont that the actor is too ill to travel. Veidt is only released after a doctor sent by Michael Balcon pronounces him fit to return to England. [ADD] | ||||
| 1939 | ||||
| - Becomes a naturalised British citizen and gives much of his estate to the British war effort. [ADD] | ||||
| 1940 | ||||
| The character of Batman’s arch-enemy The Joker, who is based on Veidt’s appearance in the 1928 film The Man Who Laughs, debuts in the first Batman comic. [ADD] | ||||
| 1943 | ||||
| 3/ 4 - | Dies of a heart attack at the age of 50 while playing golf at the Riviera Country Club in Los Angeles, California with Arthur Field and personal physician Dr. Bergman who pronounces him dead at the scene. [ADD] | |||
| 1998 | ||||
| - His ashes are interred at Golder’s Green Crematorium in London. [ADD] | ||||
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