
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Born November 24, 1885 · Cologne, Germany
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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The Valley of Love

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

Loves of Casanova

Parkstrasse 13

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

Wedding in Barenhof

Truxa

Die göttliche Jette

After Midnight

The Assumption of Hannele

Spies

The Hour of Temptation

Fighting the White Slave Traffic

Kora Terry

Die unvollkommene Liebe

Love's Arithmetic

Elisabeth and the Jester

The Wandering Image

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Border Patrol

You Belong to Me

Das Licht am Fenster

Die Prinzessin Suwarin

The Old and The Young King

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes

Four Around the Woman

The Yellow Flag

Das Geheimnis der Irren

The Heart of a Queen

The Court Concert

Kennwort Machin

Pietro der Korsar

Warning Shadows

The Stone Rider

Paganini

The Queen Was in the Parlour

Wibbel the Tailor

The Cossack and the Nightingale

Dissatisfied Woman

The Kaiser of California

Mädchenschicksale

Die lachende Grille

Madame Bovary

The Sovereign

Witches

Morphium




