--- name: "Gustav Fröhlich" canonical: "https://film.one/person/gustav-frohlich" fi1m_id: "gustav-frohlich" imdb_id: "nm0297054" tmdb_id: 74 wikidata_id: "Q65496" roles: ["Actor"] born: "21 March 1902" died: "22 December 1987" reviewed_on_fi1m: 1 average_as: "actor" average_over: 1 updated: "2026-09-17T23:22:43.330612+00:00" licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL." --- # Gustav Fröhlich ## Identity Gustav Fröhlich - **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/gustav-frohlich - **Type:** Person - **Fi1m ID:** gustav-frohlich - **IMDb ID:** nm0297054 - **TMDB ID:** 74 - **Wikidata ID:** Q65496 - **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Fr%C3%B6hlich, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65496, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0297054/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74 Actor. Born 21 March 1902 in Hannover, Germany. Died 22 December 1987. ## Details - **Work:** Actor - **Born:** 21 March 1902, Hannover, Germany - **Died:** 22 December 1987 - **Also known as:** Gustav Froelich - **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustav_Fr%C3%B6hlich, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q65496, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0297054/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/74 ## Streaming the US now - **The Roku Channel:** [*Metropolis*](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md) (87) For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country. ## Biography Gustav Fröhlich was a German actor and film director. Born in Hanover, he worked briefly as a newspaper editor and author of popular novels before entering the theatre. He made his film debut in the early 1920s and appeared in secondary roles in several silent films. Fröhlich achieved his breakthrough as Freder Fredersen in Fritz Lang's *Metropolis* (1927). He continued as a leading man in German cinema through the 1930s and 1940s, appearing in films such as *Asphalt* (1929), and later directed several features. He received the German Film Award for Lifetime Achievement in 1973 and made occasional screen appearances until the early 1980s. *Sources: en.wikipedia.org, filmportal.de, imdb.com.* ## On Fi1m (1) - *Metropolis* (1927), Fi1m 87, as Freder Fredersen — [page](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md) ## Complete filmography (107) Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page. - *Die Laurents* (1981), series, as Guillaume Gaillard - *Pommi Stern* (1981), as Old Man - *Das Kriminalmuseum* (1963), series, as Herr Eggers - *...und keiner schämte sich* (1960), as Dr. Lebrecht - *Vergiß wenn Du kannst* (1956), as Dr.Georg Sudeny, ihr Gatte - *Der erste Frühlingstag* (1956), as Paul Frank - *Seine Tochter ist der Peter* (1955), Director - *Ball of the Nations* (1954), as Percy Buck - *The Little Town will go to Sleep* (1954), as Peter Bruck - *Rosen aus dem Süden* (1954), as Julien de Costa - *Von Liebe reden wir später* (1953), as Jonny Pitter - *Ehe für eine Nacht* (1953), as Pedro - *Haus des Lebens* (1952), as Dr. Peter Haidt - *Adventures in Vienna* (1952), as Toni Sponer - *Torreani* (1951), as Erich Holsten · Director - *Stips* (1951), as Dr. Klaus Michael Dirkhoff, genannt Stips - *Die Sünderin* (1951), as Alexander - *Die Lüge* (1950), Director - *This Man Belongs to Me* (1950), as Dr. Wilhelm Löhnefink - *Der große Fall* (1949), as Cerberus, der Tausendsassa - *Der Bagnosträfling* (1949), Director - *Diese Nacht vergess ich nie* (1949), as Dr. Paul Schröter - *Eine alltägliche Geschichte* (1948), as Bernd Falkenhagen - *The Lost Face* (1948), as Dr. Thomas Martin - *Paths in Twilight* (1948), as Otto Lukas · Director - *Tell the Truth* (1946), as Peter Hellmer - *Leb’ wohl, Christina* (1945), Director - *Das Konzert* (1944), as Dr.Jura - *The Grand Prix* (1944), as Westhoff - *Marriage of Affection* (1944), as Frauenarzt Dr. Franz Wrenzchen - *The Buchholz Family* (1944), as Frauenarzt Dr. Franz Wrenzchen - *Tolle Nacht* (1943), as Peter - *With the Eyes of a Woman* (1942), as Paul von Detky - *The Great King* (1942), as Sgt. Treskow - *Sechs Tage Heimaturlaub* (1941), as Unteroffizier Werner Holt - *Clarissa* (1941), as Lutz Bornhoff - *Herz geht vor Anker* (1940), as Fritz Ullmann - *Herz – modern möbliert* (1940), as Thomas Ostenhoff - *Alles Schwindel* (1940), as Peter Graf von Asfeld - *Her Private Secretary* (1940), as Der Privatsekretär - *Adieu Vienne* (1939), as Franz Mansfield - *Alarm at Station III* (1939), as Arne Kolk, Zollwachtmeister - *Renata in the Quartet* (1939), as Kurt Kielmansdorf - *Secret Mission* (1938), as Jan Jenssen, Steuermann - *Frau Sixta* (1938), as Markus - *Die kleine und die große Liebe* (1938), as Prinz Louis Alexander alias Dr. Alexander Bordam - *The Stars Shine* (1938), as Gast - *Gabriele eins, zwei, drei* (1937), as Der Ingenieur - *Alarm in Peking* (1937), as Oberleutnant Brock - *Gleisdreieck* (1937), as Hans Scheffler - U-Bahn-Beamter - *Stadt Anatol* (1936), as Jacques Gregor - *The Hour of Temptation* (1936), as Rechtsanwalt Dr. Leuttern - *Incognito* (1936), as Severin Matthias - *Die unmögliche Frau* (1936), as Ingenieur Wiegand - *Die Entführung* (1936), as Gerard Frehel - *Love Whispers* (1935), as Peter von Ronan - *Liebesleute* (1935), as Hermann v. Goren - *A Devil of a Fellow* (1935), as Leutnant Bobby Tompson - *Stradivari* (1935), as Sándor Teleki - *A Night of Change* (1935), as Frank Cornelius - *Barcarole* (1935), as Eugen Colloredo - *Top Sergeant Schwenke* (1935), as Oberwachtmeister Willi Schwenke - *Love and Alarum* (1934), as Leutnant von Keller · Director - *Gardez le sourire* (1934), Actor - *The Fugitive from Chicago* (1934), as Michael Nissen - *Rakoczi March* (1933), as Oberleutnant Tarjan · Director - *Money Governs the World* (1933), as Léon Saval - *Ray of Sunshine* (1933), as Hans - *The Night of the Great Love* (1933), as Holger Rhon - *What Women Dream* (1933), as Walter König - *A Man with Heart* (1932), as Paul Ritter - *I Do Not Want to Know Who You Are* (1932), as Robert Lindt, eigentlich Graf Lerchenau - *A Song, A Kiss, A Girl* (1932), as Peter Franke - *Gitta Discovers Her Heart* (1932), as Peter, Komponist - *The Company's in Love* (1932), as Werner Loring jr. - stellvertr. Direktor der Ideal Tonfilm - *Under False Flag* (1932), as Hauptmann Herbert Frank - *My Leopold* (1931), as Rudolf Starke - *Love's Command* (1931), as Leutnant von Lorenz - *A Waltz by Strauss* (1931), as Johann Strauß - der Sohn - *Gloria* (1931), as Georg Köhler - *The Holy Flames* (1931), as Walter Taylor - *Inquest* (1931), as Fritz Bernt, Student - *Kismet* (1931), Actor - *Two Souls* (1930), Actor - *Fire in the Opera House* (1930), as Richard Faber - *The Immortal Vagabond* (1930), as Hans Ritter - *Hochverrat* (1929), as Wassil Gurmai - *Asphalt* (1929), as Wachtmeister Albert Holk - *The Burning Heart* (1929), as Georg Wittig - *Hurrah! I'm Alive!* (1928), as Hendrik Hansen - *Homecoming* (1928), as Karl - *Fear* (1928), as Francard - *Die Pflicht zu schweigen* (1928), as Gerhard - *Der Fremdenlegionär* (1928), as Martin Frey - *Jahrmarkt des Lebens* (1928), Actor - *The Green Alley* (1928), as Gustav Brenner - *The Eleven Devils* (1927), as Tommy, der Mittelstürmer - *The Master of Nuremberg* (1927), as Walter von Stolzing - *Agitated Woman* (1927), as Alexander Radny - *Eva and the Grasshopper* (1927), as Armand Noret - *Die leichte Isabell* (1927), Actor - *Metropolis* (1927), as Freder Fredersen — Fi1m 87, [page](https://film.one/film/metropolis.md) - *Die Frau die nicht nein sagen kann* (1927), as Edgar Jefferson - *The Woman Who Did* (1925), as James Compson - *Schiff in Not* (1925), as Harry Petersen - *Friesenblut* (1925), as Jörg Larsen Fischer - *Paganini* (1923), as Franz Von Liszt ## Gallery - ![Gustav Fröhlich](https://film.one/media/person/104026/gallery-0459900f1206.jpg) Gustav Fröhlich — Fortepan/Farkas Jenő adományozó, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Gustav_Fr%C3%B6hlich_%281938%29.jpg/1280px-Gustav_Fr%C3%B6hlich_%281938%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Annabella and Gustav Fröhlich in Sonnenstrahl](https://film.one/media/person/104026/gallery-697df834a2e2.jpg) Annabella and Gustav Fröhlich in Sonnenstrahl — Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/52/Annabella_and_Gustav_Fr%C3%B6hlich_-_Sonnenstrahl_%281933%29_%2852282911699%29.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail_unscaled) - ![Bolváry Géza rendező, laki Farkas Jenő cigányprímás és Gustav Fröhlich színész a Stradivári c. film forgatásán (1938)](https://film.one/media/person/104026/gallery-d701515de73c.jpg) Bolváry Géza rendező, laki Farkas Jenő cigányprímás és Gustav Fröhlich színész a Stradivári c. film forgatásán (1938) — Fortepan/Farkas Jenő adományozó, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6d/Bolv%C3%A1ry_G%C3%A9za%2C_Farkas_Jen%C5%91_%C3%A9s_Gustav_Fr%C3%B6hlich.jpg/1280px-Bolv%C3%A1ry_G%C3%A9za%2C_Farkas_Jen%C5%91_%C3%A9s_Gustav_Fr%C3%B6hlich.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gustav Fröhlich 4818/1 Ufa Ross-Verlag (1930)](https://film.one/media/person/104026/gallery-cc52b641481d.jpg) Gustav Fröhlich 4818/1 Ufa Ross-Verlag (1930) — Gregor Harlip (–1945), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://thumb.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Gustav_Froehlich_4818-1_Ufa_Harlip_Ross-Verlag.jpg/1280px-Gustav_Froehlich_4818-1_Ufa_Harlip_Ross-Verlag.jpg?utm_source=commons.wikimedia.org&utm_campaign=imageinfo&utm_content=thumbnail) - ![Gustav Fröhlich](https://film.one/media/person/104026/gallery-3b1a0ffad0b8.jpg) Gustav Fröhlich — Image via TMDB ## Awards ### Other awards — 1 won - Filmband in Gold 1973: Filmband in Gold (won) *From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.* --- © Fi1m Ltd. 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