Biography
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.
Movies & TV Shows
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Metropolis (1927) — C.A. Rotwang
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) — Criminal (uncredited)
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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) — Dr. Mabuse
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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) — Dr. Mabuse
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Destiny (1921) — Dervish / Girolamo
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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) — King Etzel
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Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924) — King Etzel (Attila)
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Spies (1928) — Haghi
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Warning Shadows (1923)
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Four Around the Woman (1921) — Upton
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The Wandering Image (1920) — Georgs Vetter Wil Brand
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Loves of Casanova (1927) — Peter III
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The Stone Rider (1923) — Der Herr vom Berge
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The Heart of a Queen (1940)
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The Court Concert (1936) — Oberst Flumms
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Madame Bovary (1937) — Prof. Canivet
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Kora Terry (1940)
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The Kaiser of California (1936)
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Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes (1939) — Rechnungsrat
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Wedding in Barenhof (1942)
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Truxa (1937) — Varieté-Direktor
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The Assumption of Hannele (1934) — Maurer Mattern
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The Old and The Young King (1935) — Leopold Dessauer
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Wibbel the Tailor (1939) — Pangdich
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The Sovereign (1937) — Direktor Bodlfing
- A Strange Guest (1936) — Polizeipräfekt
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Kennwort Machin (1939) — Schnellrichter in New York
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Menschen vom Varieté (1939) — Kommissar Wiedemann
- Tarakanova (1930) — Le Comte Chouvalof
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The Valley of Love (1935) — Herr von Roden
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The Yellow Flag (1937) — Kapitän Ellis
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Die göttliche Jette (1937) — Stadtrat Müller
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Elisabeth and the Jester (1934) — Michele
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Parkstrasse 13 (1939) — Direktor Bremer
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Love's Arithmetic (1935)
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Pietro der Korsar (1925)
- Wildes Blut (1920)
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Morphium (1919)
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You Belong to Me (1929) — Burat-Laussade
- The Shark (1930) — Vasseur