Adolf Klein

Adolf Klein
Born	15 August 1847 Vienna, Austrian Empire
Died	11 March 1931 (1931-03-12) (aged 83) Berlin, Weimar Germany
Occupation(s)	Film actor Stage actor
Years active	1916-1931 (film)

Adolf Klein (15 August 1847 – 11 March 1931) was an Austrian actor and theatre director. Klein appeared in around sixty films, mainly during the silent era. He appeared in a number of the epics made by the German film industry during the early 1920s such as his role as Cardinal Wolsey in Ernst Lubitsch's Anna Boleyn (1920).

Selected filmography

• Dr. Hart's Diary (1917)
• The Mirror of the World (1918)
• Veritas vincit (1919)
• Anna Boleyn (1920)
• Lady Hamilton (1921)
• Ilona (1921)
• Phantom (1922)
• Fridericus Rex (1922)
• The Black Cover (1922)
• Frauenmoral (1923)
• The Last Battle (1923)
• Rivals (1923)
• Judith (1923)
• Carlos and Elisabeth (1924)
• A Free People (1925)
• Bismarck (1925)
• Wood Love (1925)
• Shadows of the Metropolis (1925)
• Shadow of the World City (1925)
• The City of Temptation (1925)
• Maytime (1926)
• The Great Duchess (1926)
• Bismarck 1862-1898 (1927)
• 1914 (1931)

Bibliography

• Fletcher, Stella. Cardinal Wolsey: A Life in Renaissance Europe. Continuum, 2009.

External links

• Adolf Klein at IMDb