
Harry Baur (12 April 1880 – 8 April 1943) was a French actor.
Initially a stage actor, Baur appeared in about 80 films between 1909 and 1942. He gave an acclaimed performance as the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in the biopic Beethoven's Great Love (Un grand amour de Beethoven, 1936), directed by Abel Gance, and as Jean Valjean in Raymond Bernard's version of Les Misérables (1934). He also acted in Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset's silent film, Beethoven (1909), and in La voyante (1923), Sarah Bernhardt's last film.
In 1942, while in Berlin, to star in his last film Symphone eines Lebens, Baur's wife was arrested by the Gestapo and charged with espionage. His effort to secure her release led to his own arrest and torture. He was being falsely labelled as a Jew but confirmed freemason. He was released in April 1943, but died in Paris shortly after in mysterious circumstances.
Academy Award-winning American actor Rod Steiger cited Baur as one of his favorite actors who had exerted a major influence on his craft and career.

L'Évasion de Vidocq
1910 · as Vidocq

Golgotha
1935 · as Hérode

Les Misérables
1934 · as Jean Valjean / Champmathieu

Hatred
1938 · as le capitaine Mollenard

L'Assommoir
1908

Volpone
1941 · as Volpone

Rothchild
1934 · as Rothchild

The Postmaster's Daughter
1938 · as Virine, le maitre de poste

Samson
1936 · as Jacques Brachart

Sarati the Terrible
1937 · as Cesar Sarati

The Red Head
1932 · as Mr. Lepic

Moscow Nights
1934 · as Peter Brioukow

The Golem
1936 · as L'empereur Rodolphe II, roi de Bohème

Who Killed Santa Claus?
1941 · as Gaspard Cornusse

Rasputin
1938 · as Rasputin

Monsieur Lecoq
1914

A Man and His Woman
1934 · as Papon

Moscow Nights
1934 · as Piotr Brioukow