Alfred Abel(1879-1937)
- Actor
- Director
- Additional Crew
This elegant actor of the golden age of German cinema appeared in
several masterpieces, before the cameras of such inspired geniuses as
Lang, Lubitsch and Murnau. Vocation had come rather late in his life,
though. Abel was indeed already 33 when he made his first film.
Beforehand, he had been a forester, a gardener and a shopkeeper. But
one day, while watching a film with Asta Nielsen, he was struck by
revelation. He decided at once to become an actor and with the help of
Nielsen in person he started a fruitful screen career. He also wrote
and directed a few films. He died too soon aged only 57, but having
honored the German screen with his noble, dignified figure in more than
a hundred pictures.
