Gustav Fröhlich
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Gustav 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. He remained a popular film star in Germany until the 1950s.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.8519 |
| Birthday | 1902-03-21 |
| Place of Birth | Hannover, Germany |
| Also Known As | Gustav Froelich, |
1927
Metropolis
8.095/3045
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 savi...
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Metropolis
1951
Die Sünderin
5/8
Going from a dysfunctional family into a life of prostitution, Marina finally finds happiness and comfort with unsuccessful artist Alexander. However,...
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Die Sünderin
1930
Two Souls
0/0
Gustav Froehlich and Charlotte Susa play Rochus and Judith, the zwei menschen (two humans) of the title. Rochus' domineering mother insists that he en...
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Two Souls
1954
Rosen aus dem Süden
0/0
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Rosen aus dem Süden
1933
What Women Dream
8.4/5
In this pre-WWII German mystery-comedy, a lovely kleptomaniac with a taste for fine jewelry is unable to resist temptation. Strangely, every time she...
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What Women Dream
1948
Das verlorene Gesicht
0/0
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Das verlorene Gesicht
1929
Asphalt
7.27/50
Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons a...
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Asphalt
1925
The Woman Who Did
0/0
A young woman doesn't want to get married, but simply live together with the man she loves. This leads to problems when the man dies and she's left wi...
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The Woman Who Did
1933
Ray of Sunshine
5.7/8
Hans, living in Vienna during the Great Depression, intends to drown himself in the river after losing his livelihood. While there he meets a girl nam...
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Ray of Sunshine
1954
The Little Town will go to Sleep
1/1
In a small town a bag with delicate letters disappears. Many of the residents are worried about their written messages. A clever sculptor uses the opp...
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The Little Town will go to Sleep
1931
Gloria
7.7/3
This is the German version of Gloria with Gustav Fröhlich & Brigitte Helm in the leads. A French version was filmed simultaneously with André Lugu...
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Gloria
1942
The Great King
6.9/7
King Frederick II (aka "Frederick the Great") of Prussia is engaged in a major battle against the Austrian army at Kunersdorf, and things aren't going...
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The Great King
1935
Barcarole
0/0
A young reckless womaniser is trapped one night at his club into a bet with a Mexican that he will win his wife before morning. There will be a duel i...
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Barcarole
1928
Homecoming
6.3/11
Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany...
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Homecoming
1946
Sag die Wahrheit
0/0
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Sag die Wahrheit
1944
The Buchholz Family
5.5/4
Based on an 1884 novel by Julius Stinde, it is a family chronicle set in late nineteenth century Berlin.
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The Buchholz Family
1952
Haus des Lebens
0/0
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Haus des Lebens
1944
Neigungsehe
0/0
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Neigungsehe
1936
Stadt Anatol
5/3
Based on a 1932 novel City of Anatol by Bernhard Kellermann. The film is set in a small city in the Balkans, where the discovery of oil leads to a maj...
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Stadt Anatol
1931
Inquest
0/0
When a prostitute is murdered in a cheap Berlin boarding house, an investigating judge suspects that the killer is her boyfriend, unaware that his own...
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Inquest
1934
The Fugitive from Chicago
5.2/2
Werner Dux, heir of the big car company "Dux-Werke", is a gambler who has just been arrested in Chicago for shooting a cardsharper. While in jail, he...
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The Fugitive from Chicago
1930
The Immortal Vagabond
0/0
Prevented from wedding a postman's daughter (her father prefers she marry a farmer) a Tyrol schoolteacher succeeds instead in having an opera of his a...
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The Immortal Vagabond
1931
My Leopold
7.5/2
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My Leopold
1931
Love's Command
0/0
During the Austro Hungarian empire, a girl substitutes for her brother in a military academy.
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Love's Command
1940
Alles Schwindel
0/0
After living in the tropics for five years, Peter Asfeld returns to Amsterdam and wants to marry his childhood friend Julia Vermehren. However, his fu...
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Alles Schwindel
1932
Under False Flag
0/0
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Under False Flag
1951
Stips
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Stips
1932
I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are
0/0
An impoverished count has to work as a chauffeur but because of his good looks attracts women, one of them wealthy enough to solve his problem.
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I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are
1939
Alarm auf Station III
4.3/3
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Alarm auf Station III
1932
The Company's in Love
6.1/8
The story follows a movie crew who is filming a musical in a small and idyllic alpine village. After their temperamental leading lady drops out of the...
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The Company's in Love
1941
Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub
5/4
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Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub
1952
Adventures in Vienna
8.3/5
Taking place over 12 hours on New Years Eve, a concert pianist murders his wife's lover, then frames an innocent man.
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Adventures in Vienna
1949
Diese Nacht vergess ich nie
0/0
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Diese Nacht vergess ich nie
1938
Frau Sixta
0/0
The story of the upright Mrs. Sixta, who in 1861 ran the post office in a village in the Otztaler Alps right on the Italian border. When her husband...
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Frau Sixta
1953
Ehe für eine Nacht
0/0
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Ehe für eine Nacht
1932
A Song, A Kiss, A Girl
5/4
Peter Franke owns Supraphon record company, which has one main competitor in Lyraphon. As a commercial strategy Peter gets engaged to her counter part...
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A Song, A Kiss, A Girl
1932
A Man With a Heart
0/0
A story about a series of confusions, in which Paul Ritter, a bank employee, is unaware that the girl he's fallen in love with is the daughter of his...
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A Man With a Heart
1933
The Night of the Great Love
1/2
The story, set in Constantinople, of a young man who falls in love with a woman much older than he is, and her daughter falls in love with him also. A...
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The Night of the Great Love
1935
Love Whispers
3/1
To escape dreary country life, a count travels to Italy with a friend every year. Instead of the alleged purchase of horses, the reason he gives to h...
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Love Whispers
1935
Stradivari
5/4
In 1914 a Hungarian officer inherits a Stradivarius which is believed to bring back luck to its owner. He and his Italian fiancée are separated by the...
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Stradivari
1936
Incognito
5/1
The bored heir to a soap factory is able through pure chance to work incognito in the 153rd branch of the business. While doing so, he falls in love w...
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Incognito
1936
Die unmögliche Frau
0/0
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Die unmögliche Frau
1944
Das Konzert
5/6
A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four...
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Das Konzert
1937
Gleisdreieck
5/3
Dark love story.
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Gleisdreieck
1941
Clarissa
5/3
Clarissa is promoted to department head of Feerenbach's bank. He and bank clerk Lutz both love her. When she falls for Lutz she soon is led to believe...
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Clarissa
1956
Der erste Frühlingstag
0/0
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Der erste Frühlingstag
1939
Renate im Quartett
5.4/5
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Renate im Quartett
1935
Oberwachtmeister Schwenke
5/2
A pretty girl helps a popular Berlin policeman solve the murders of a woman he knew and the crooked banker the victim worked for.
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Oberwachtmeister Schwenke
1935
Leutnant Bobby, der Teufelskerl
0/0
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Leutnant Bobby, der Teufelskerl
1937
Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
5/1
Gabriele Bordersen, a woman from a good home, wants to see what real life is like among the common folk. With her stewardess Fanny Flint and the tour...
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Gabriele eins, zwei, drei
1940
Ihr Privatsekretär
0/0
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Ihr Privatsekretär
1936
Die Stunde der Versuchung
0/0
Irene is unhappy because her lawyer husband Dr. Leuttern never has time for her. Womanizer Mac Norris slyly benefits from her depression and lures her...
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Die Stunde der Versuchung
1935
A Night of Change
5/3
Nacht der Verwandlung (A Night of Change) stars Gustav Froelich as a globe-circling aviator, a character clearly based on America's Wiley Post. While...
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A Night of Change
1934
Abenteuer eines jungen Herrn in Polen
0/0
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Abenteuer eines jungen Herrn in Polen
1942
Mit den Augen einer Frau
0/0
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Mit den Augen einer Frau
1935
Liebesleute
5/3
Baron von Goret is an impoverished landowner, whose estate is about to go into receivership. And so, for that reason, he wishes to marry off his son...
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Liebesleute
1953
Von Liebe reden wir später
0/0
The beautician Angela Bell, a well-off middle-aged lady, and the respected fashion doctor Prof. Christian Hollmann would like to get married, but ther...
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Von Liebe reden wir später
1937
Alarm in Peking
0/0
Set against the backdrop of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion...
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Alarm in Peking
1944
Der große Preis
0/0
The moral is simple: keep your mouth shut, especially when you're working during the wartime in a factory, which produces racing cars only, or someone...
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Der große Preis
1940
Herz geht vor Anker
0/0
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Herz geht vor Anker
1950
This Man Belongs to Me
5/1
Country doctor Wilhelm Löhnefink has had enough of being a bachelor and goes looking for a wife.
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This Man Belongs to Me
1932
Gitta entdeckt ihr Herz
0/0
In a small Hungarian village, a priest discovers a girl named Gitta who can sing beautifully. He takes Gitta with him and turns her into a celebrated...
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Gitta entdeckt ihr Herz
1948
Paths in Twilight
0/0
Three homeless youths commit petty crimes to get by in the difficult time just after the end of WW2 in Germany. When they become suspects in a murder...
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Paths in Twilight
1943
Tolle Nacht
5/5
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Tolle Nacht
1956
Vergiß wenn Du kannst
0/0
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Vergiß wenn Du kannst
1960
...und keiner schämte sich
5/1
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...und keiner schämte sich
1931
A Waltz by Strauss
0/0
Musical extravaganza, also filmed in a French language version, based on the life of Johann Strauss.
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A Waltz by Strauss
1949
Der große Fall
0/0
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Der große Fall
1954
Ball of the Nations
0/0
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Ball of the Nations
1940
Herz – modern möbliert
5/4
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Herz – modern möbliert
1933
Racoczy-Marsch
0/0
Hungary, 1925. A young lieutenant of the Hungarian army Fröhlich falls in love with his captain's sister, Vilma Horn. While his superior agrees to the...
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Racoczy-Marsch
1927
The Eleven Devils
6/3
Die elf Teufel / The Eleven Devils was made in Berlin in the summer of 1927, in the last throes of the silent movie era. But Die elf Teufel strikes on...
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The Eleven Devils
1948
Eine alltägliche Geschichte
0/0
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Eine alltägliche Geschichte
1931
We’re Switching to Hollywood
4.8/4
A German reporter visits Hollywood and is escorted through the MGM Studio by a German nobleman, who is working there as an extra. They meet and speak...
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We’re Switching to Hollywood
1938
The Stars Shine
6.2/6
German all-star musical from 1938 that was a big commercial success.
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The Stars Shine
1938
Die kleine und die große Liebe
5/2
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Die kleine und die große Liebe
1928
The Green Alley
0/0
An ill-fated love affair between a brothel waitress and a doctor's son.
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The Green Alley
1938
In geheimer Mission
0/0
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In geheimer Mission
1928
Angst - Die schwache Stunde einer Frau
4.3/7
"The Fear of an Unfaithful Woman" - Inge Duhan lives with her husband, the lawyer Erich Duhan, and her little daughter Susi in Berlin. Inge is a very...
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Angst - Die schwache Stunde einer Frau
1931
Kismet
0/0
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the ca...
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Kismet
1936
Die Entführung
0/0
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Die Entführung
1928
Der Fremdenlegionär
0/0
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Der Fremdenlegionär
1929
Hochverrat
0/0
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Hochverrat
1928
Jahrmarkt des Lebens
0/0
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Jahrmarkt des Lebens
1931
The Holy Flames
0/0
This is the German-language version of 1929's "The Sacred Flame", from the W. Somerset Maugham play, shot by Warner Bros. in Hollywood with a German-s...
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The Holy Flames
1927
Eva and the Grasshopper
8/1
Mary and Eva are best friends, although they couldn't be more different. Armand, Mary's fiancee, falls in love with the seductive Eva, who is busy bec...
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Eva and the Grasshopper
1930
Fire in the Opera House
5/1
It begins with a Tannhäuser performance and ends with the premiere of The Tales of Hoffmann. In between a young ingénue cast in her first big role, th...
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Fire in the Opera House
1928
Die Pflicht zu schweigen
0/0
The Duty to Remain Silent (German: Die Pflicht zu schweigen) is a 1928 German silent drama film directed by Carl Wilhelm and starring Marcella Albani,...
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Die Pflicht zu schweigen
1927
Die Frau die nicht nein sagen kann
0/0
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Die Frau die nicht nein sagen kann
1927
Die leichte Isabell
0/0
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Die leichte Isabell
1927
The Master of Nuremberg
0/0
The clerk of Nuremberg wants to use his position to marry the young Evchen, but she does not love him and to avoid this marriage she asks the village...
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The Master of Nuremberg
1951
Torreani
0/0
Acrobat assumes identity of jailed fellow-artist to take over a theatre which had been bequeathed to him. He is suspected of murdering the acrobat but...
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Torreani
1925
Schiff in Not
0/0
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Schiff in Not
1925
Friesenblut
0/0
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Friesenblut
1929
The Burning Heart
0/0
A young composer and inventor meets a poverty stricken singer.
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The Burning Heart
1923
Paganini
0/0
Historical film about Italian musician Niccolo Paganini.
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Paganini
1933
Money Governs the World
0/0
In this French set comedy, five million francs change hands one weekend between a man pretending to be a millionaire and a woman pretending to be a Ru...
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Money Governs the World
1928
Hurrah! I'm Alive!
0/0
Pieter Kruis runs a grocer's shop in a small Dutch town, with which he and his wife Johanne can hardly feed themselves. Nonetheless, he is satisfied w...
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Hurrah! I'm Alive!
1927
Agitated Woman
0/0
The aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and must evade the advances of several overbearing men. Thi...
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Agitated Woman
1934
Gardez le sourire
6.125/4
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Gardez le sourire
1939
Adieu Vienne
0/0
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Adieu Vienne
1981
Pommi Stern
0/0
A young singer wants to make it big.
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