Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Birthday: 1885-11-24
Place of Birth: Cologne, Germany
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.
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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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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl...
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
After a detective is assaulted by thugs and placed in an asylum run by Professor Baum, he observes t...
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Destiny
As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is seques...
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The Heart of a Queen
As the title "The Queen's Heart" suggests, this early German black and white version of Mary Queen o...
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You Belong to Me
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Menschen vom Varieté
In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art sh...
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Warning Shadows
During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th cen...
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Spies
The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lad...
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Der Film von der Königin Luise - 1. Abteilung: Die Märtyrerin auf dem Königsthron
In this three part recreation of the life of Queen Louise of Prussia specific historical moments ,su...
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Der Film von der Königin Luise - 2. Abteilung: Aus Preußens schwerer Zeit
French revolutionaries had swept into Prussia to wreak havoc, and now Napoleon marches in to inflict...
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The Wandering Image
When Irmgard becomes pregnant from Georg, a free-love disciple, she decides, for the sake of her chi...
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Tarakanova
Tarakanova is a 1930 French historical drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Édith Jéh...
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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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Der Ammenkönig
Rather coarse, pre-War comedy about a Markgraf -- Heinrich XXVI -- who bathes in the springs of the ...
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The Yellow Flag
An adventurer, Peter Diercksen, travels to South America to guide an expedition into the jungle. How...
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Madame Bovary
The country doctor Dr. Bovary has married a beautiful, sensual woman named Emma....
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Moral
The double standards of a social class, which pontificates with big words what is proper and imprope...
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Die göttliche Jette
Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin s...
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Kora Terry
When Bartos, the director of the Odeon variety theater, cancels an artist at short notice, he hires ...
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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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Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his dis...
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Truxa
The famous tightrope artist Truxa is drinking at the Artisan bar in New York. He meets a young man, ...
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Witches
The deceased owner of a medieval castle stipulated the following in his will: The heir to his mighty...
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Elisabeth und der Narr
Elisabeth is subject of a girl's boarding school run by the nuns. The village idiot Michele adores h...
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The Stone Rider
In a distant Teutonic village, people dance and drink merrily celebrating a wedding feast. However, ...
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The Old and The Young King
The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became kn...
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The Sovereign
Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emi...
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The Emperor of California
The film follows the life story of Johann Augustus Suter, the owner of Sutter's Mill, famous as the ...
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Mädchenschicksale
About exciting and everyday stories and dreams in the life of young and inexperienced girls....
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Kennwort Machin
The cashier, Jürgen Borb, has already worked for 10 years at Dadag in Hamburg and is an example for ...
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Fighting the White Slave Traffic
A young woman in Berlin is offered a job at a night club in Budapest. There she is abducted and brou...
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Parkstrasse 13
The beautiful Evelyne Schratt, who has many admirerers, and whose two husbands both died under myste...
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Das Einmaleins der Liebe
Identities are changed in the Austrian countryside. A simple woman does this to test the affections ...
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Four Around the Woman
Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake a...
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Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther an...
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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to a...
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Loves of Casanova
Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbol...
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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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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
The French language production of Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse....
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