
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.


as C.A. Rotwang
1927

as Criminal (uncredited)
1920

1942

as Stadtrat Müller
1937

as Herr von Roden
1935
as Don Fabio Coridon
1927

1949

as Haghi
1928

1940
as Le Comte Chouvalof
1930

as Kommissar Wiedemann
1939
as Polizeipräsident von Simbach
1936

1949

1942

1940

1940

as Konsul Henry Rasmus
1940

as Rechnungsrat
1939
as Landrat
1939

as Schnellrichter in New York
1939

as Pangdich
1939

as Direktor Bremer
1939

as Kommissar Wiedemann
1939
1938

1938
as Landrat Krotkeim
1937

as Kapitän Ellis
1937

as Prof. Canivet
1937

as Stadtrat Müller
1937

as Direktor Bodlfing
1937

as Varieté-Direktor
1937

as Oberst Flumms
1936
as Ponbiquet
1936

as Professor der Nervenklinik
1936

as Kriminalrat Brandt
1936
as Polizeipräsident von Simbach
1936