Rudolf Lettinger

Rudolf Lettinger
Born	26 October 1865 Hamburg, German Empire
Died	21 March 1937 (aged 71) Berlin-Schöneberg, Nazi Germany
Occupation	Film actor
Years active	1883-1931

Rudolf Lettinger (26 October 1865 in Hamburg – 21 March 1937 in Berlin-Schöneberg) was a German stage and film actor. He made his stage debut in 1883 when he played the role of Kosinsky in Friedrich Schiller's drama The Robbers. Some of his more prominent roles in his prestigious stage career were Cyrano de Bergerac and Gessler in William Tell. He also worked with acclaimed stage director Max Reinhardt. In 1912, Lettinger played his first film role in Das Geheimnis von Monte Carlo. Lettinger appeared in over 90 films until 1931, mostly as a supporting actor. His best-known film is perhaps The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920), where Lettinger portrayed Dr. Olsen.

Selected filmography

• Harakiri (1919)
• The Mistress of the World Part VIII (1920)
• The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
• Whitechapel (1920)
• Madame Récamier (1920)
• Napoleon und die kleine Wäscherin (1920)
• The Brothers Karamazov (1921)
• Nathan the Wise (1922)
• Quarantäne (1923)
• The Great Unknown (1924)
• Women of Luxury (1925)
• The Circus Princess (1925)
• The Man on the Comet (1925)
• The Woman with That Certain Something (1925)
• Bismarck (1925)
• The Hanseatics (1925)
• The Great Opportunity (1925)
• The Young Man from the Ragtrade (1926)
• The Fallen (1926)
• Young Blood (1926)
• The Catwalk (1927)
• Bismarck 1862-1898 (1927)
• The Great Adventuress (1928)
• Volga Volga (1928)
• Luther (1928)
• Emil and the Detectives (1931)

Bibliography

• Jung, Uli & Schatzberg, Walter. Beyond Caligari: The Films of Robert Wiene. Berghahn Books, 1999.

External links

• Rudolf Lettinger at the Internet Movie Database