Alfred Abel
Birthday: 1879-03-11
Place of Birth: Leipzig, Germany
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alfred Peter Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937) was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film, Metropolis.
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Metropolis
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...
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Phantom
Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over b...
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L'Argent
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock ...
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The Finances of the Grand Duke
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service...
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The Burning Soil
When farmer Rog dies, his eldest Peter takes over the farm while his youngest Johannes is determined...
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Mary
When actress Mary Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence point...
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The Burning Secret
One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerla...
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People Among Us
Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, soci...
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The Congress Dances
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Mettern...
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The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the Grand Hotel, wit...
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Maria, die Magd
An actress and her lawyer husband are so busy that their maid becomes the real mother to their six y...
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Und du mein Schatz fährst mit
Opera singer Maria Seydlitz has just left her fiancé because he put her between the choice of husban...
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A Venetian Night
The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his...
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1914: The Last Days Before the War
The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbr...
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The Court Concert
Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European sta...
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Die Flamme
In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to h...
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Seven Slaps
William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsib...
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The White Demon
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become target...
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Montparnasse Girl
A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and they even make some money for a w...
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Dolly is making a career
Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfrie...
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The Beautiful Adventure
Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin a...
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Mad Love
Richard de la Croix's brother, Andreas, has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite nam...
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Giftgas
Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of...
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Kater Lampe
In the central mountains, an American lady trying to manufacture snowshoes assists a struggling Germ...
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Cagliostro
Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an i...
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Eine Siebzehnjährige
Walter is in love with the 17-year-old Erika, but she raves for older, experienced men. When Walter ...
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Intoxication
Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. Wh...
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The Buddenbrooks
Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adapt...
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Rasputins Liebesabenteuer
Portrays the deep intrigue and mystical fanaticism of the last days of the Romanoffs, when Rasputin,...
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Das tanzende Wien
A cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving...
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Kampf
The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appea...
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The Woman in Flames
Dancing, sports and erotic pursuits are the main ingredients in this drama about the fate of this sc...
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Nights of Terror
The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is...
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Ernst ist das Leben
Fany, an up and coming dancer, is saved by a sculptor during a theatre fire. The two bond, distressi...
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Dudu, ein Menschenschicksal
A wealthy man, a circus clown by profession, tells another man, during a car ride, some excerpts fro...
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Kameraden
Axel and Bertha are a modern, emancipated artist couple in Paris. He is feminine and vain. She is fi...
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Lola Montez
Dancer Lola Montez is the star of Madrid's theaters. All the important men are after her, among them...
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The Vice of Humanity
Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. ...
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Narkose
Young Angélique has a crush on the famous writer René Vernon. One night she follows him, sleeps with...
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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a...
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Wenn Menschen reif zur Liebe werden
A young woman becomes pregnant and is abandoned by her lover, just as her mother had been....
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Der Seele Saiten schwingen nicht
A middle class woman's marriage to a nobleman quickly becomes an unhappy one....
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Ein Blatt im Sturm...doch das Schicksal hat es verweht
The relationship between a painter and his lover fractures after the painter finds out she did not a...
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The White Roses
The actress Thilda Wardier is courted by the wealthy Adam de Rochord, who presents her with a large ...
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Das Opfer der Ellen Larsen
Ellen, the secretary to General Manager Rasmussen, marries her fiancé Norbert Larsen, who also works...
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