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Werner Krauss
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23 June 1884 - 20 October 1959
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Werner Kraus (Kraub) (23.6.1884 Gestungshausen - 20.10.1959 Vienna) German actor of theater and cinema. He made his debut in 1904 at the Berlin German Theatre at the Burgtheatre in Vienna. He performed mainly in classical dramaturgy and in plays by F. Wedekind G. Gauntman and others. His first film role was Danertutto (The Tales of Hoffmann, 1916). He became famous for participating in expressionist films - "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919), "The Cabinet of Wax Figures" (1924) in the films "Joyless
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Werner Kraus (Kraub) (23.6.1884 Gestungshausen - 20.10.1959 Vienna) German actor of theater and cinema. He made his debut in 1904 at the Berlin German Theatre at the Burgtheatre in Vienna. He performed mainly in classical dramaturgy and in plays by F. Wedekind G. Gauntman and others. His first film role was Danertutto (The Tales of Hoffmann, 1916). He became famous for participating in expressionist films - "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919), "The Cabinet of Wax Figures" (1924) in the films "Joyless Lane" (1925), "Mr. Tartuf" (1926) and many others. Creativity K. was imbued with deep contradictions - a characteristic actor master of reincarnation who created bright typed images, he at the same time gravitated to grotesque and pathological characters. During the fascist dictatorship in Germany, he starred in the anti-Semitic film The Jew Suess (1940). In the 2nd half of the 50s he performed in the theaters of West Berlin.