ACTOR

Gustav Fröhlich

1902 - 1987

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Gustav Friedrich Fröhlich (21 March 1902 – 22 December 1987) was a German actor and film director. He landed secondary roles in a number of films and plays before landing his breakthrough role of Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's 1927 film Metropolis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gustav Fröhlich has received more than 360,150 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gustav Fröhlich is the 2,321st most popular actor (down from 1,891st in 2019), the 3,067th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,533rd in 2019) and the 73rd most popular German Actor.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.10

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  • 2.24

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gustav Fröhlich ranks 2,321 out of 13,578. Before him are Kelly Rutherford, David Rasche, Ng Man-tat, Patrick Bruel, Will Patton, and William Berger. After him are Maia Morgenstern, David Cassidy, Timothy Hutton, Francesca Neri, Kevin Hagen, and Barry Bostwick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Gustav Fröhlich ranks 145. Before him are Bobby Jones, Luis Cernuda, Princess Françoise of Orléans, Anthony Asquith, Nikolay Kamov, and K. Shivaram Karanth. After him are Khuang Aphaiwong, Max Abegglen, Thomas E. Dewey, Mitrofan Nedelin, Jack Sharkey, and Ferdinand Marian. Among people deceased in 1987, Gustav Fröhlich ranks 109. Before him are Hermann Lang, Donn F. Eisele, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Bengt Strömgren, Stanisław Szukalski, and Sachchidananda Vatsyayan. After him are Adile Naşit, Norman McLaren, Cornelis Vreeswijk, Arkady Raikin, Georges Franju, and Bronisława Wajs.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gustav Fröhlich ranks 3,067 out of 7,253. Before him are Albert of Aix (1060), Heinrich Scheidemann (1596), Eberhard IV, Count of Württemberg (1388), John Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1594), Ricarda Huch (1864), and Magdalena Sibylla of Saxe-Weissenfels (1648). After him are Ottmar Mergenthaler (1854), Albrecht Ritschl (1822), Enno III, Count of East Frisia (1563), Christian II, Prince of Anhalt-Bernburg (1599), Ernst von Glasersfeld (1917), and Frederick Louis, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1619).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Gustav Fröhlich ranks 73. Before him are Elga Andersen (1935), Wolfgang Preiss (1910), Karl Valentin (1882), Franka Potente (1974), Marcel Ophüls (1927), and Elmar Wepper (1944). After him are Cornelia Froboess (1943), Meryem Uzerli (1983), Michael Ballhaus (1935), Eric Braeden (1941), Susan Blakely (1948), and Henny Porten (1890).

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Television and Movie Roles

Metropolis
Freder Fredersen
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.
Feb 6o 19278.1 / 10
Giorgio Moroder's Metropolis
Freder Fredersen
In 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of filmgoers. Working in collaboration with film archivists globally, Moroder supervised a special reconstruction, with color tinting, fewer intertitles and newly restored footage. A pioneer in the field of digital music, Moroder backed this special edition with a throbbing new score, punctuated with pop songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era: Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy and others.
Aug 10o 19848.1 / 10
Asphalt
Wachtmeister Albert Holk
One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love story set in the traffic-strewn Berlin of the late 1920s. Starring the delectable Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Asphalt is a luxuriously produced UFA classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of traffic.
Mar 12o 19297.2 / 10