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Alfred Abel

1879 - 1937

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alfred Abel is the 3,876th most popular actor (down from 2,744th in 2019), the 4,233rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,472nd in 2019) and the 119th most popular German Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Alfred Abel ranks 3,876 out of 13,578Before him are Patrick Bergin, Tsuru Aoki, Margarita Xirgu, Rance Howard, Ratna Pathak, and Ed Wynn. After him are Gladys Cooper, Tarık Akan, Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieślak, Lily Pons, Taheyya Kariokka, and Genevieve Cortese.

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Among people born in 1879, Alfred Abel ranks 168Before him are Rafael Erich, Émile Champion, Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, Wladimir Aïtoff, Antti Tulenheimo, and Beals Wright. After him are Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Archduchess Maria Christina of Austria, Pierre Cérésole, Benjamin Christensen, Cyril Scott, and Will Rogers. Among people deceased in 1937, Alfred Abel ranks 131Before him are Meliton Balanchivadze, Titsian Tabidze, Jean de Brunhoff, Alexander Chayanov, Victor Laloux, and Robert Borden. After him are Walter Burley Griffin, Wilhelm Weinberg, Anastasios Metaxas, Clarence Clark, Juan Campisteguy, and Bolesław Leśmian.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Alfred Abel ranks 4,235 out of 7,253Before him are Emanuel Geibel (1815), Karl Georg Christian von Staudt (1798), Ingrid Gulbin (1943), Frederick I, Count Palatine of Simmern (1417), Georg von Habsburg (1964), and Hans Zender (1936). After him are James Krüss (1926), Joseph Vilsmaier (1939), Jutta Rüdiger (1910), Margot Hielscher (1919), Joachim Ringelnatz (1883), and Hugo von Mohl (1805).

Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Alfred Abel ranks 119Before him are Hannelore Elsner (1942), Sandra Hüller (1978), Christian Berkel (1957), Heike Makatsch (1971), Horst Frank (1929), and Mathieu Carrière (1950). After him are Otto Waalkes (1948), Ilse Steppat (1917), Susanne Lothar (1960), Curt Bois (1901), August Wilhelm Iffland (1759), and Martina Gedeck (1961).