1. Friedrich Rudolf Klein, better known as Rudolf Klein-Rogge, was a German film actor, best 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.
11 Facts About Rudolf Klein-Rogge
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Rudolf Klein-Rogge 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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Friedrich Rudolf Klein-Rogge Klein was born in Cologne, Germany on 24 November 1885.
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Rudolf Klein-Rogge's father, Hermann Rudolf Klein, was a military lawyer who served as for the 15th Division of the Prussian Army, garrisoned at Cologne.
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On his deathbed Rudolf Klein-Rogge confided to a friend that when a teacher went after him he ran away from school.
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Rudolf Klein-Rogge spent three years at the University of Bonn and in Berlin, studying art history.
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Rudolf Klein-Rogge began taking acting lessons from Hans Siebert, a veteran of Vienna's Burgtheater, and made his stage debut in 1909, playing Cassius in Julius Caesar in Halberstadt.
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In 1918, the pair moved to Berlin to capitalize on von Harbou's writing skills and her budding career as a scenarist and screenwriter, while Rudolf Klein-Rogge was hired by Victor Barnowsky, director of Berlin's Lessing Theater.
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Rudolf Klein-Rogge's intense look led him to similar roles such as a tyrant in Fritz Wendhausen's Der steinerne Reiter, a pirate in Arthur Robison's Pietro der Korsar, and the Czar in Alexandre Volkoff's Casanova.
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Rudolf Klein-Rogge played the lead roles in two films written and directed by von Harbou: Elisabeth und der Narr and Hanneles Himmelfahrt.
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Rudolf Klein-Rogge remarried twice, first to Margarete Neff, and lastly with the Swedish actress Mary Johnson in 1932, to whom he remained married until his death in 1955.