
Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Known for Acting · 76 credits
- Born
- 1885-11-24
- Died
- 1955-05-29
- Place of birth
- Cologne, Germany
- Also known as
- Friedrich Rudolf Klein-Rogge · Friedrich Rudolf Klein
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.
Known For
Movies (76)

Metropolis
1927
as C.A. Rotwang

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
as Criminal (uncredited)

The Valley of Love
1935
as Herr von Roden
The Gypsy Baron
1927
Two Women
1938

Wedding in Barenhof
1942
Tarakanova
1930
as Le Comte Chouvalof

Menschen vom Varieté
1939
as Kommissar Wiedemann

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
1924
as King Etzel
Die Sandgräfin
1928

Destiny
1921
as Dervish / Girolamo

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933
as Dr. Mabuse

Parkstrasse 13
1939
as Direktor Bremer

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
1922
as Dr. Mabuse

Loves of Casanova
1927
as Peter III
Tingel Tangel
1927
as Don Fabio Coridon

Truxa
1937
as Varieté-Direktor

After Midnight
1938
Cat Walk
1937
as Landrat Krotkeim

The Wandering Image
1920
as Georgs Vetter Wil Brand

Die göttliche Jette
1937
as Stadtrat Müller

Kora Terry
1940
Rheinische Brautfahrt
1939
as Landrat

The Assumption of Hannele
1934
as Maurer Mattern
Wildes Blut
1920

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
1924
as King Etzel (Attila)

Die unvollkommene Liebe
1940
as Konsul Henry Rasmus

Spies
1928
as Haghi

The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933
as Dr. Mabuse
La maison des hommes vivants
1929
Wolga Wolga
1928
as Kosak Hadschi-Ali

Die Prinzessin Suwarin
1923
as Cyrus Proctor

Love's Arithmetic
1935

Four Around the Woman
1921
as Upton
Der rosa Diamant
1926

Das Licht am Fenster
1919
Die Schreckensnacht im Irrenhaus Ivoy
1920
as Dr. Harry Walker

Fighting the White Slave Traffic
1927
as Simpat Karamanian / Arut Akkunian
The Tannhof Women
1934
as Jakob Aigner

You Belong to Me
1929
as Burat-Laussade
Das Mädchen aus Frisco
1927

Warning Shadows
1923

The Hour of Temptation
1936
as Kriminalrat Brandt

Border Patrol
1934
as Der Einäugige, ein Schmuggler

Wibbel the Tailor
1939
as Pangdich

The Court Concert
1936
as Oberst Flumms

The Heart of a Queen
1940

Robert Koch, der Bekämpfer des Todes
1939
as Rechnungsrat

Madame Bovary
1937
as Prof. Canivet

The Stone Rider
1923
as Der Herr vom Berge

The Sovereign
1937
as Direktor Bodlfing

Paganini
1934
as Graf Hédouville, Kurier Napoleons

The Kaiser of California
1936

Elisabeth and the Jester
1934
as Michele

Morphium
1919

Kennwort Machin
1939
as Schnellrichter in New York

The Old and The Young King
1935
as Leopold Dessauer

Dissatisfied Woman
1936
as Professor der Nervenklinik
A Strange Guest
1936
as Polizeipräfekt
Der Fall Brenken
1934
as Bert Benson

Die lachende Grille
1926
as Rossini
The World Without a Mask
1934
as Merker
Intermezzo
1936
as Ponbiquet

The Yellow Flag
1937
as Kapitän Ellis

Witches
1949
Moral
1936
as Polizeipräsident von Simbach

The Queen Was in the Parlour
1927
as General Kish

Mädchenschicksale
1928
as Lormand

The Cossack and the Nightingale
1936
as Dschahid-Bey, Tabakgroßhändler
The Shark
1930
as Vasseur

Pietro der Korsar
1925
Der Film von der Königin Luise - 2. Abteilung: Aus Preußens schwerer Zeit
1913
Der Film von der Königin Luise - 1. Abteilung: Die Märtyrerin auf dem Königsthron
1913

Die schönste Frau von Paris
1928

Das Geheimnis der Irren
1919
Die raffinierteste Frau Berlins
1927
as William Pitts
About Rudolf Klein-Rogge
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. With 76 credits spanning from 1913 to 1949, Rudolf Klein-Rogge has appeared in 76 films and 0 TV shows.
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- Metropolis (1927) — as C.A. Rotwang
- The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) — as Criminal (uncredited)
- The Valley of Love (1935) — as Herr von Roden
- The Gypsy Baron (1927)
- Two Women (1938)
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