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Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Acting · 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.

Movies with Rudolf Klein-Rogge

• Metropolis (1927) — C.A. Rotwang
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) — Criminal (uncredited)
• Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922) — Dr. Mabuse
• The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) — Dr. Mabuse
• Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (1924) — King Etzel (Attila)
• Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (1924) — King Etzel
• Destiny (1921) — Dervish / Girolamo
• Loves of Casanova (1927) — Peter III
• The Valley of Love (1935) — Herr von Roden
• Spies (1928) — Haghi
• Truxa (1937) — Varieté-Direktor
• Parkstrasse 13 (1939) — Direktor Bremer