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He also acted in films; his performances are few but indelible, from his matinee-idol turn as the empathetic monk in Carl Theodor Dreyer's The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) to his part as Marat in Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927), in which, at one point, he breaks off a discussion by getting down on all fours and barking like a dog.