Personal Info
Birth date
1885-11-24 (139 Years)
Day of death
1955-05-29
Gender
Male
Known for
Acting
Place of birth
Cologne, Germany
Also known as
Friedrich Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Friedrich Rudolf Klein
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Friedrich Rudolf Klein-Rogge (24 November 1885 – 29 May 1955) was a German film actor. Klein-Rogge is known for playing sinister figures in films in the 1920s and 1930s as well as being a mainstay in director Fritz Lang's Weimar-era films. He is probably best known in popular culture, particularly to English-speaking audiences, for playing the archetypal mad scientist role of C. A. Rotwang in Lang's Metropolis and as the criminal genius Doctor Mabuse.
Filmography
Metropolis
8.105
Overview:
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
7.927
Overview:
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
7.661
Overview:
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.Destiny
7.4
Overview:
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
7.721
Overview:
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
7.653
Overview:
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes the professor's preoccupation with another patient, the criminal genius Dr. Mabuse the hypnotist. When Mabuse's notes are found to be connected with a rash of recent crimes, Commissioner Lohmann must determine how Mabuse is communicating with the criminals, despite conflicting reports on the doctor's whereabouts, and capture him for good.Loves of Casanova
6
Overview:
Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbolizes the decline of the city and its fall into debauchery, manages to escape and, by a circuitous route, arrives in Saint Petersburg, where he will be involved in the many plots that threaten the throne of Czar Peter III…Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
7.487
Overview:
When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.Warning Shadows
6.514
Overview:
During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
8
Overview:
In 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of filmgoers. Working in collaboration with film archivists globally, Moroder supervised a special reconstruction, with color tinting, fewer intertitles and newly restored footage. A pioneer in the field of digital music, Moroder backed this special edition with a throbbing new score, punctuated with pop songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era: Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy and others.Spies
7.4
Overview:
The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
5.8
Overview:
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it. Every fourth child is already sick and the parents must helplessly watch as their young ones die. Now Koch is undertaking to find the cause of the tuberculosis --- something he has already been working on for years --- which has been causing this plague of illness. His work is made more difficult by envy; for example, that of his teacher, who was wounded defending his honor. But his greatest obstacle is the famous Berliner scientist and Reichstag deputy, Privy Councilor Rudolf Virchow: He is extraordinarily skeptical of Koch's theory, that the cause for tuberculosis is a bacteria.The Court Concert
4.6
Overview:
Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.Four Around the Woman
5.906
Overview:
Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past.The Sovereign
5
Overview:
Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies. Determining to start life anew, he falls in love with his secretary Inken (Marianne Hoppe) and impulsively takes a vacation to Italy. Clausen's selfish grown children, not wishing to share their father's affections -- nor his money -- with his new wife-to-be, go to court demanding that Clausen be declared mentally incompetent. Upon finding this out, Clausen flies into a rage, leaving the audience to wonder whether or not he really as gone off his trolley. Der Herrscher was directed by Veit Harlan, more famous (or notorious) for his viciously anti-Semitic Jud Suess (1940).Kora Terry
5.2
Overview:
When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires the Terrys out of necessity, whose parents were successful variety artists, but who had not yet received an engagement themselves. Both are supported by Tobs, a friend of their parents. While blonde Mara Terry arrives punctually for the first rehearsal, her dark-haired sister Kora is late like a diva and acts aloof and snippy. At their first performance together the next day, Kora is overtired from partying the night before. During a dangerous act in which she has to balance her upside-down sister on her head, she becomes careless...The Wandering Image
5.833
Overview:
When Irmgard becomes pregnant of Georg, a free love disciple, she decides, for the sake of her child, to pretend they are married. The secret plan is to wed his twin brother, John, who will pretend to be Georg in front of the priest. Soon after that happens, Georg disappears and is declared dead. Years later Irmgard is trying to escape John, who is obsessed with her. In the mountains she finds a stranger willing to protect her.The Stone Rider
6.125
Overview:
In a distant Teutonic village, people dance and drink merrily celebrating a wedding feast. However, an elderly man tells the villagers that the valley where they live wasn't always happy but sorrowful. This was due to the tyranny of the master of the mountains who ruled the valley despotically.Moral
NYR
Overview:
The double standards of a social class, which pontificates with big words what is proper and improper in the world of morality, while in its heart thinks very differently and acts accordingly.Truxa
5
Overview:
The famous tightrope artist Truxa is drinking at the Artisan bar in New York. He meets a young man, Husen, and gives him his stage name Truxa. He is to take the real Truxa's place at a circus show in Wintergarten, Berlin.The Emperor of California
5.6
Overview:
The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the birthplace of the great California Gold Rush of 1848.Fighting the White Slave Traffic
NYR
Overview:
A young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brought to a brothel in Athens.Die göttliche Jette
5
Overview:
Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian baron, who is worshipping Jette, enables her to audition for Königstädtisches Theater. Although she at first fails with an aria from an opera, Jette wins over the hearts of the board members with her fresh style when she performs a cheeky couplet that was written by Barsch, the stage manager of the suburb theater.The Heart of a Queen
6.2
Overview:
As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen of Scott's eventful reign and death focuses on her emotional perception rather lyrically, with some songs, mainly by her.Menschen vom Varieté
4.5
Overview:
In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a murderous poster on his jealous partner. - Not particularly successful mixture of vaudeville theatre numbers, artiste's destiny and crime film tension, on an average produced and played. A production rotated in Budapest with the popular dancer La Jana.Acting
1984Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis as C.A. Rotwang
1949Witches as Unknown
1942Hochzeit auf Bärenhof as Unknown
1940Kora Terry as Unknown
1940The Heart of a Queen as Unknown
1940Die unvollkommene Liebe as Konsul Henry Rasmus
1939Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes as Rechnungsrat
1939Rheinische Brautfahrt as Landrat
1939Kennwort Machin as Schnellrichter in New York
1939Parkstrasse 13 as Direktor Bremer
1939Menschen vom Varieté as Kommissar Wiedemann
1938Two Women as Unknown
1938Der Katzensteg as Landrat Krotkeim
1937The Yellow Flag as Kapitän Ellis
1937Madame Bovary as Prof. Canivet
1937Die göttliche Jette as Stadtrat Müller
1937The Sovereign as Direktor Bodlfing
1937Truxa as Varieté-Direktor
1936The Court Concert as Oberst Flumms
1936Intermezzo as Ponbiquet
1936Die Stunde der Versuchung as Kriminalrat Brandt
1936Moral as Polizeipräsident von Simbach
1936The Emperor of California as Unknown
1936Der Kosak und die Nachtigall as Dschahid-Bey, Tabakgroßhändler
1936Ein seltsamer Gast as Polizeipräfekt
1935Der Ammenkönig as Herr von Roden
1935Das Einmaleins der Liebe as Unknown
1935The Old and The Young King as Leopold Dessauer
1934Die Frauen vom Tannhof as Jakob Aigner
1934Der Fall Brenken as Bert Benson
1934Paganini as Graf Hédouville, Kurier Napoleons
1934Grenzfeuer as Der Einäugige, ein Schmuggler
1934The Assumption of Hannele as Maurer Mattern
1934Die Welt ohne Maske as Merker
1934Elisabeth und der Narr as Michele
1933The Testament of Dr. Mabuse as Dr. Mabuse
1930Tarakanova as Le Comte Chouvalof
1930The Shark as Vasseur
1929Tu m'appartiens ! as Unknown
1929La maison des hommes vivants as Unknown
1928Die schönste Frau von Paris as Unknown
1928Wolga Wolga as Kosak Hadschi-Ali
1928Mädchenschicksale as Lormand
1928Spies as Haghi
1928Die Sandgräfin as Unknown
1927Das Mädchen aus Frisco as Unknown
1927Die raffinierteste Frau Berlins as William Pitts
1927Tingel Tangel as Don Fabio Coridon
1927Loves of Casanova as Peter III
1927Fighting the White Slave Traffic as Simpat Karamanian / Arut Akkunian
1927The Queen Was in the Parlour as General Kish
1927Der Zigeunerbaron as Unknown
1927Metropolis as C.A. Rotwang
1926Die lachende Grille as Rossini
1926Der rosa Diamant as Unknown
1925Pietro der Korsar as Unknown
1924Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge as King Etzel (Attila)
1924Die Nibelungen: Siegfried as King Etzel
1923Warning Shadows as Unknown
1923Die Prinzessin Suwarin as Cyrus Proctor
1923The Stone Rider as Der Herr vom Berge
1922Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler as Dr. Mabuse
1921Destiny as Dervish / Girolamo
1921Four Around the Woman as Upton
1920The Wandering Image as Georgs Vetter Wil Brand
1920The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari as Criminal (uncredited)
1920Wildes Blut as Unknown
1920Die Schreckensnacht im Irrenhaus Ivoy as Dr. Harry Walker
1919Das Licht am Fenster as Unknown
1919Morphium as Unknown
1913Der Film von der Königin Luise - 1. Abteilung: Die Märtyrerin auf dem Königsthron as Unknown
1913Der Film von der Königin Luise - 2. Abteilung: Aus Preußens schwerer Zeit as Unknown
Writing
1938Sergeant Berry ... Dialogue