Adolf Klein

{{short description|Austrian actor}} {{use dmy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox person | image = Adolf Klein (cropped).jpg | name = Adolf Klein | birth_date = {{birth date|1847|8|15|df=y}} | birth_place = Vienna, Austrian Empire | death_date = {{death date and age|1931|3|11|1847|8|15|df=y}} | death_place = Berlin, Weimar Germany | other_names = | occupation = {{ubl|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).<ref>Fletcher p. 191</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Dr. Hart's Diary'' (1917) * ''The Mirror of the World'' (1918) * ''The Seeds of Life'' (1918) * ''Veritas Vincit'' (1919) * ''The Panther Bride'' (1919) * ''The Loves of Käthe Keller'' (1919) * ''Anna Boleyn'' (1920) * ''Uriel Acosta'' (1920) * ''The Secret of the Mummy'' (1921) * ''Lady Hamilton'' (1921) * ''Ilona'' (1921) * ''The Adventuress of Monte Carlo'' (1921) * ''The Amazon'' (1921) * ''The Inheritance of Tordis'' (1921) * ''The Maharaja's Favourite Wife'' (1921) * ''The Passion of Inge Krafft'' (1921) * ''The Women of Gnadenstein'' (1921) * ''The Three Aunts'' (1921) * ''Phantom'' (1922) * ''Fridericus Rex'' (1922) * ''The Black Cover'' (1922) * ''Frauenmoral'' (1923) * ''The Last Battle'' (1923) *''Rivals'' (1923) * ''Judith'' (1923) * ''The Hungarian Princess'' (1923) * ''Carlos and Elisabeth'' (1924) * ''Strong Winds'' (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)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * {{cite book | last = Fletcher | first = Stella | title = Cardinal Wolsey: A Life in Renaissance Europe | publisher = Continuum | year = 2009 | location = London | isbn = 978-1-84725-245-6 }}

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0458635}}

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