With his spare frame, high cheekbones and wide, thin-lipped mouth, Conrad Veidt seemed destined to play sinister roles, and to many filmgoers, he is primarily known for his two roles: Cesare, the sleep-walking killer in "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" (1919), and Nazi Major Strasser in "Casablanca" (1942). Before his role as Cesare, however, he had made dozens of screen appearances, and before Strasser he had played many sympathetic, even romantic, figures in German and British films. Veidt studied under the legendary Max Reinhardt in Berlin's Deutsches Theater, before being drafted to serve in
