Still of Alfred Abel and Rudolf Klein-Rogge in Metropolis (1927)
Caption: Still of Alfred Abel and Rudolf Klein-Rogge in Metropolis (1927)
Actor, Director, Miscellaneous Crew
Born: March 12, 1879
Star sign: Pisces
Known for: Metropolis (1927), Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922), Phantom (1922), Mary (1931)
Source: IMDB
This elegant actor of the golden age of German cinema appeared in several masterpieces, before the cameras of such inspired geniuses as Lang, Lubitsch and Murnau. Vocation had come rather late in his life, though. Abel was indeed already 33 when he made his first film. Beforehand, he had been a forester, a gardener and a shopkeeper. But one day, ...