Alfred Abel
Acting
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Alfred Peter Abel (12 March 1879 – 12 December 1937) was a German film actor, director, and producer. He appeared in more than 140 silent and sound films between 1913 and 1938. His best-known performance was as Joh Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film, Metropolis.
Born: March 11, 1879
Place of Birth: Leipzig, Germany
Known For
Viennese Waltz
Viennese Waltz or Johann Strauss, Royal and Imperial Court Musician is a 1932 German historical musical film directed by Conrad Wiene and starring Michael Bohnen, Lee Parry and Paul Hörbiger.
Metropolis
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
People Among Us
Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski, the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
Mad Love
Richard de la Croix's brother, Andreas, has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A friend takes Richard to the Odeon to meet her, but when Sappho actually meets him, he is unaware that she is the woman who drove Andreas to be institutionalised. Sappho genuinely falls in love with Richard, and decides to leave her vampy ways and her older lover behind her so that she can have him.
The Congress Dances
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.
L'Argent
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
The Trunks of Mr. O.F.
In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the Grand Hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms. This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is.
Phantom
Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.
The Finances of the Grand Duke
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.
Filmography
as Daffinger
as Astor Terbanks
as Großindustrieller William Liners
as Bankier Sparrenberg
as Dichter Knips
as Dr. Winter, Alices Mann, Rechtsanwalt
as Vater
as Der Mann
as Jan Hendriks
as Wagemann
as Gorre
as Mr. Palmer
as Graf d'Eguzon
as Jack Matting
as Graf Laboudèle
as Bürgermeister
as Georg von Zamokki
as König von Sachsen
as Mr. Knast
as Guide
as Sir John Menier
as Leopold Graf Berchtold
as Eberhard
as Jean
as Prince of Rohan
as Gellony
as Alphonse Gunderman
as Generaladjutant Sablin
as Johann Strauss Vater
as Dichter
as Mangol
as Radcliffe
as Johann 'Joh' Fredersen
as Chopin
as Helmuth Köhler
as Dr. Lothar Reimers
as Hans Fennhofer
as Philipp Collin, alias Professor Pelotard
as Christian Buddenbrook
as Kipman
as Gaston
as Lorenz Lubota
as Count Told
as Ludwig von Lellewel
as Parfen
as Andreas de la Croix
as Frank Cunning
as Axel
as Gaston, ein Schriftsteller
as Der Baron
as Juan
as Madons, criminal
as Kurt von Altenstein
as Holger
as Alfred
as Anselmus Aselmeyer