Carl de Vogt
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Actor
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who starred in four of Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...
's early films. He attended the acting school in Cologne
Cologne
Cologne is Germany's fourth-largest city , and is the largest city both in the Germany Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia and within the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan Area, one of the major European metropolitan areas with more than ten million inhabitants.Cologne is located on both sides of the...
, Germany. Together with acting he was also active as a singer and recorded several discs. His greatest hit was "Der Fremdenlegionär". An extremely successful actor in his early career, he died in relative obscurity in 1970.
In 1919 and 1920, de Vogt starred in director Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-American filmmaker, screenwriter, and occasional film producer and actor. One of the best known émigrés from Germany's school of Expressionism, he was dubbed the "Master of Darkness" by the British Film Institute...
's two-part Spiders
The Spiders (film)
The Spiders is a adventure film directed by Fritz Lang. It was released in two parts in 1919 and 1920.-Synopsis:In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of...
films opposite actresses Lil Dagover
Lil Dagover
Lil Dagover was a German stage, film and television actress whose career spanned nearly six decades.-Early life:...
and Ressel Orla.
de Vogt was married to the German film actress Cläre Lotto, and the couple had a son Karl Franz de Vogt (born May 14, 1917).
Selected filmography
- Die RattenDie RattenDie Ratten is a 1955 West German drama film directed by Robert Siodmak. It is an adaptation of the play by Gerhart Hauptmann which transferred the story in the early fifties, shortly after the Second World War...
(1955) - Die TodeskarawaneCaravan of Death (film)Caravan of Death is a 1920 silent German film directed by Josef Stein and featuring Carl de Vogt as Kara Ben Nemsi. Béla Lugosi played a supporting role...
(19201920 in filmThe year 1920 in film involved some significant events.-Events:* November 27 - The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks opens.-Top grossing films :-Films released in 1920:U.S.A. unless stated*The $1,000,000 Reward...
) - Auf den Trümmern des ParadiesesOn the Brink of ParadiseOn the Brink of Paradise is a 1920 German film directed by Josef Stein and featuring Carl de Vogt in the title role of Kara Ben Nemsi. Béla Lugosi appeared in a supporting role...
(1920) - Die TeufelsanbeterThe Devil WorshippersThe Devil Worshippers is a six-chapter 1920 silent German film directed by Marie Luise Droop and featuring Carl de Vogt in the title-role of Kara Ben Nemsi. Later horror-star Béla Lugosi is being seen in one of his first supporting roles in a film...
(1920) - Der Herr der LiebeMaster of LoveDer Herr der Liebe is a 1919 silent film directed in Germany by Fritz Lang. It was his second film after Halbblut. The film starred Carl de Vogt and Gilda Langer, stars of Lang's debut feature.-Synopsis:...
(1919) - Die SpinnenThe Spiders (film)The Spiders is a adventure film directed by Fritz Lang. It was released in two parts in 1919 and 1920.-Synopsis:In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of...
(1919/20)