Henry Krauss

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Henry Krauss, 1894.
Poster by Faria for the Pathé film La navaja , with Henry Krauss, 1911. Collection EYE Film Instituut Nederland .

Henry Krauss , also Henri Krauss , born as Henri Kraus (born April 26, 1866 in Paris ; † December 15, 1935 there ) was a French actor and director , a veteran of European cinema.

Live and act

Krauss was considered one of the first character stars of the domestic cinema. Before he came to the still largely underdeveloped cinematography, he had been on the Parisian stage for around two decades. He played roles in the pieces Valet de coeur (1893), La peur des coups (1894) and Théroigne de Méricourt (1902).

Krauss began filming regularly from 1908. The production company SCAGL (Société cinématographique des auteurs et gens de lettres) made the compact Parisian one of their house stars and gave him a plethora of prominent leading roles over the next five years, “in which he interprets powerful and full-bodied as well as sensitive and intellectual people Krauss played Buridau in the film adaptation of Alexandre Dumas ' La tour de Nesle , the title hero in the drama Le lépreux de la cité d'Aoste , the Bohémien in L'oiseau s'envole , the Dr. Cezambre in the murder search melodrama La glu and Prince Grégoire III. in Le réveil .

His two interpretations of two characters from Victor Hugo's novels made him a cinema giant of his time (before the First World War ) : Henry Krauss was seen as the first screen quasimodo in Notre Dame de Paris ( The Hunchback of Notre-Dame ) in 1911 then as the mercilessly persecuted by the judiciary Jean Valjean in an early adaptation of Les misérables ( The wretched ). His last star role before the outbreak of war was Étienne Lantier in 1913 in the implementation of Émile Zola's Germinal .

Although still active in front of the camera, Krauss' star as a film actor began to decline rapidly since the war. "In the 20s and 30s his style was considered too pompous and exaggerated". After all, in 1925 , director Julien Duvivier gave the almost 60-year-old artist a prime role again with the father of the title hero Poil de carotte in Rotfuchs . A good two decades after his Jean Valjean in 1913, Henry Krauss also appeared in the first sound film version of the Hugo story, but had to make do with the much smaller role of Mgr. Myriel.

Henry Krauss had worked as a director from time to time since the late war years; however, there were no great successes. In 1925/26 he helped Abel Gance as assistant director on his large-scale Napoleon film.

His son was the film architect Jacques Krauss .

Filmography

as an actor, unless otherwise stated

  • 1908: Marie Stuart
  • 1908: Un duel sous Richelieu
  • 1909: Le bal noir
  • 1909: La tour de Nesle
  • 1909: L'épi
  • 1910: Le berceau vide
  • 1910: L'enfant malade
  • 1910: Le specter de l'autre
  • 1910: L'amour et le temps
  • 1910: Le revenant
  • 1910: Le vieux comédien
  • 1910: La navaja
  • 1911: L'oiseau s'envole
  • 1911: Notre Dame de Paris
  • 1911: La coupable
  • 1912: Un amour de la Du Barry
  • 1912: Les misérables
  • 1913: Germinal
  • 1913: La glu
  • 1913: Le réveil
  • 1914: Le bossu
  • 1914: Quatre-vingt-treize
  • 1915: Frères corses
  • 1917: Un pauvre homme de génie (only direction)
  • 1917: Papa Hulin (also director)
  • 1918: Marion Delorme (also director)
  • 1918: Le chemineau
  • 1919: Le fils de Monsieur Ledoux (also director, screenplay)
  • 1921: Fromont jeune et Risler aîné (also director, screenplay)
  • 1921: Les trois masques (also director, screenplay)
  • 1922: Le bossu
  • 1922: Le diamant noir
  • 1923: Crédo ou La tragédie de Lourdes
  • 1923: Grimaces in the big city (Les ombres qui passent)
  • 1925: Le calvaire de Dona Pia (only direction)
  • 1925: red fox (Poil de carotte)
  • 1927: Napoleon
  • 1928: La symphonie pathétique
  • 1928: The island of the missing (La divine croisière)
  • 1930: Le procureur Hallers
  • 1931: La symphonie pathétique
  • 1934: The Damned (Les Misérables)
  • 1934: Le bonheur du jour

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 482.

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personal data
SURNAME Krauss, Henry
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Krauss, Henri; Kraus, Henri (birth name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor, director, screenwriter
DATE OF BIRTH April 26, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH December 15, 1935
Place of death Paris