Gustav Fröhlich
Birthday: 1902-03-21
Place of Birth: Hannover, Germany
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Gustav Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis. He remained a popular film star in Germany until the 1950s.
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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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Die Sünderin
Going from a dysfunctional family into a life of prostitution, Marina finally finds happiness and co...
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Two Souls
Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the ti...
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What Women Dream
In this pre-WWII German mystery-comedy, a lovely kleptomaniac with a taste for fine jewelry is unabl...
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Asphalt
Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced Ge...
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The Woman Who Did
A young woman doesn't want to get married, but simply live together with the man she loves. This lea...
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Ray of Sunshine
Hans, living in Vienna during the Great Depression, intends to drown himself in the river after losi...
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The Little Town will go to Sleep
In a small town a bag with delicate letters disappears. Many of the residents are worried about thei...
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Gloria
This is the German version of Gloria with Gustav Fröhlich & Brigitte Helm in the leads. A French...
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The Great King
King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Au...
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Barcarole
A young reckless womaniser is trapped one night at his club into a bet with a Mexican that he will w...
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Homecoming
Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a ...
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The Buchholz Family
Based on an 1884 novel by Julius Stinde, it is a family chronicle set in late nineteenth century Ber...
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Stadt Anatol
Based on a 1932 novel City of Anatol by Bernhard Kellermann. The film is set in a small city in the ...
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Inquest
When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that...
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The Fugitive from Chicago
Werner Dux, heir of the big car company "Dux-Werke", is a gambler who has just been arrested in Chic...
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The Immortal Vagabond
Prevented from wedding a postman's daughter (her father prefers she marry a farmer) a Tyrol schoolte...
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Love's Command
During the Austro Hungarian empire, a girl substitutes for her brother in a military academy....
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I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are
An impoverished count has to work as a chauffeur but because of his good looks attracts women, one o...
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The Company's in Love
The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After...
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Adventures in Vienna
Taking place over 12 hours on New Years Eve, a concert pianist murders his wife's lover, then frames...
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Frau Sixta
The story of the upright Mrs. Sixta, who in 1861 ran the post office in a village in the Otztaler Al...
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A Song, A Kiss, A Girl
Peter Franke owns Supraphon record company, which has one main competitor in Lyraphon. As a commerci...
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A Man With a Heart
A story about a series of confusions, in which Paul Ritter, a bank employee, is unaware that the gir...
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The Night of the Great Love
The story, set in Constantinople, of a young man who falls in love with a woman much older than he i...
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Love Whispers
To escape dreary country life, a count travels to Italy with a friend every year. Instead of the al...
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Stradivari
In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owne...
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Incognito
The bored heir to a soap factory is able through pure chance to work incognito in the 153rd branch o...
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Das Konzert
A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's ...
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Clarissa
Clarissa is promoted to department head of Feerenbach's bank. He and bank clerk Lutz both love her. ...
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Oberwachtmeister Schwenke
A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked ...
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Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
Gabriele Bordersen, a woman from a good home, wants to see what real life is like among the common f...
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Die Stunde der Versuchung
Irene is unhappy because her lawyer husband Dr. Leuttern never has time for her. Womanizer Mac Norri...
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A Night of Change
Nacht der Verwandlung (A Night of Change) stars Gustav Froelich as a globe-circling aviator, a chara...
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Liebesleute
Baron von Goret is an impoverished landowner, whose estate is about to go into receivership. And so...
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Von Liebe reden wir später
The beautician Angela Bell, a well-off middle-aged lady, and the respected fashion doctor Prof. Chri...
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A Waltz by Strauss
Musical extravaganza, also filmed in a French language version, based on the life of Johann Strauss....
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Gitta entdeckt ihr Herz
In a small Hungarian village, a priest discovers a girl named Gitta who can sing beautifully. He tak...
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Der große Preis
The moral is simple: keep your mouth shut, especially when you're working during the wartime in a fa...
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Paths in Twilight
Three homeless youths commit petty crimes to get by in the difficult time just after the end of WW2 ...
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This Man Belongs to Me
Country doctor Wilhelm Löhnefink has had enough of being a bachelor and goes looking for a wife....
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Racoczy-Marsch
Hungary, 1925. A young lieutenant of the Hungarian army Fröhlich falls in love with his captain's si...
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The Eleven Devils
Die elf Teufel / The Eleven Devils was made in Berlin in the summer of 1927, in the last throes of t...
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We're switching to Hollywood
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who ...
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The Green Alley
An ill-fated love affair between a brothel waitress and a doctor's son....
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Angst - Die schwache Stunde einer Frau
"The Fear of an Unfaithful Woman" - Inge Duhan lives with her husband, the lawyer Erich Duhan, and h...
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Kismet
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to r...
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Eva and the Grasshopper
Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, fal...
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The Holy Flames
This is the German-language version of 1929's "The Sacred Flame", from the W. Somerset Maugham play,...
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Fire in the Opera House
It begins with a Tannhäuser performance and ends with the premiere of The Tales of Hoffmann. In betw...
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Die Pflicht zu schweigen
The Duty to Remain Silent (German: Die Pflicht zu schweigen) is a 1928 German silent drama film dire...
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The Master of Nuremberg
The clerk of Nuremberg wants to use his position to marry the young Evchen, but she does not love hi...
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Torreani
Acrobat assumes identity of jailed fellow-artist to take over a theatre which had been bequeathed to...
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Money Governs the World
In this French set comedy, five million francs change hands one weekend between a man pretending to ...
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Hurrah! I'm Alive!
Pieter Kruis runs a grocer's shop in a small Dutch town, with which he and his wife Johanne can hard...
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Agitated Woman
The aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and must ...
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