Alfred Abel

Alfred Abel was born on Mar 12, 1879 in Germany. Alfred Abel's big-screen debut came with The Burning Soil directed by F.W. Murnau in 1922, strarring Ludwig von Lellewel. Alfred Abel is known for Kater Lampe directed by Veit Harlan, Suse Graf stars as Lotte Hempel and Albert Lieven as Fritz Neumerkel - Schnitzergeselle. The upcoming new movie Alfred Abel plays is Kater Lampe which will be released on Apr 22, 1938.

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.