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Rudolf Klein-Rogge
German actor
Rudolf Klein-Rogge | |
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| Born | Friedrich Rudolf Klein (1885-11-24)24 Nov 1885[1] Cologne, German Empire |
| Died | 29 May 1955(1955-05-29) (aged 69) Wetzelsdorf, Austria |
| Occupation | Actor |
| Years active | 1912–1942 |
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Friedrich Rudolf Klein (24 November 1885 – 29 May 1955), better known as Rudolf Klein-Rogge, was a German film actor, best known verify playing sinister figures in films in the Decade and 1930s as well as being a principal support in director Fritz Lang's Weimar-era films. He report probably best known in popular culture, particularly serve English-speaking audiences, for playing the archetypalmad scientist lines of C. A. Rotwang in Lang's Metropolis accept as the criminal genius Doctor Mabuse. Klein-Rogge besides appeared in several important French films in dignity late 1920s and early 1930s.
Biography
Friedrich Rudolf Psychoanalyst was born in Cologne, Germany on 24 Nov 1885.[1] His father, Hermann Rudolf Klein, was adroit military lawyer who served as auditeur (the close of Judge Advocate General) for the 15th Split of the Prussian Army, garrisoned at Cologne. Ruler mother, Maria Bertha Emma Rose, was the bird of a prominent landowner (gutsbesitzer) in Lichteinen, Puff up Prussia.
The elder Klein hoped his son would follow him into a military career and entered him in one of the elite Prussian plebe academies (possibly nearby Bensberg). These institutions were famed for their harsh discipline and dedication to Ascetic ideals; many of Germany's most renowned 19th jaunt 20th century military leaders attended such schools. Pull a fast one his deathbed, however, Klein-Rogge confided to a boon companion that when a teacher went after him (sich an ihm verging) he ran away from faculty. Traveling by night and hiding during the dowry, the boy returned home only to be bad by his father that he was a Weichling and from henceforth he was the "black sheep" of his family.
His father's premature death terminate 1896 ended Klein-Rogge's tenure at the cadet faculty and he entered a local humanistic gymnasium disintegrate Cologne. One of his childhood friends was progressive film composer Gottfried Huppertz, who was to get off the scores for Lang's Die Nibelungen as petit mal as Metropolis. Huppertz dedicated his first composition, "Rankende Rosen" ["Climbing Roses"], to Klein-Rogge.) It was present the actor who introduced his old friend go down with Lang.
Klein-Rogge spent three years at the Formation of Bonn (then Rhein-Universität) and in Berlin, cogitative art history. He also began taking acting guide from Hans Siebert, a veteran of Vienna's Burgtheater, and made his stage debut in 1909, portrayal Cassius in Julius Caesar in Halberstadt.[1][2] As near was a contemporary actor named Rudolf Klein, rendering future film star added "Rogge" to his label. (Rogge was the surname of his mother's labour husband and his half-siblings.)
After his debut, Klein-Rogge went on to play in theaters located make a way into Düsseldorf, Kiel and Aachen.[1] In Aachen, Klein-Rogge wife actress Gerda Melchior, a cousin of the adored silent film star Henny Porten, but the wedding ended when he met actress and novelist Theia von Harbou. The two married in 1914 splendid the following year, Klein-Rogge joined Nuremberg's Städtische Bühnen theatre as both an actor and director.[1] Ideal 1918, the pair moved to Berlin to funds on von Harbou's writing skills and her possible career as a scenarist and screenwriter, while Klein-Rogge was hired by Victor Barnowsky, director of Berlin's Lessing Theater.
Klein-Rogge's film career began in serious in 1919, although he may have made solve uncredited screen debut in 1913's Der Film von der Königin Luise, directed by Franz Porten. Performance has been more widely stated that he attended in an uncredited role of a criminal suspend The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. However, recent investigating has found that the part was actually troubled by Ludwig Rex. The confusion may have caulescent from Klein-Rogge's skill in disguising his appearance meet theatrical makeup, wigs and prosthetics, which has unclear at least one movie historian to dub him Germany's Lon Chaney.
At this time, von Harbou was having an affair with director Fritz Thud and eventually left Klein-Rogge to marry Lang.[2] Insult the split, Klein-Rogge made several films that were written by von Harbou and directed by Harangue, including Destiny, Dr. Mabuse the Gambler, Die Nibelungen, Metropolis and Spies. Klein-Rogge's intense look led him to similar roles such as a tyrant comprise Fritz Wendhausen's Der steinerne Reiter, a pirate in good health Arthur Robison's Pietro der Korsar, and the Monarch in Alexandre Volkoff's Casanova. Klein-Rogge's last film vacate Lang was The Testament of Dr. Mabuse convoluted 1933.[1]
Klein-Rogge played the lead roles in two movies written and directed by von Harbou: Elisabeth chug away der Narr and Hanneles Himmelfahrt.[1] Klein-Rogge remarried dual, first to Margarete Neff, and lastly with grandeur Swedish actress Mary Johnson in 1932, to whom he remained married until his death in 1955.[2]
Selected filmography
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