Carl de Vogt, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Carl de Vogt

German actor

Date of Birth: 14-Sep-1885

Place of Birth: Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

Date of Death: 16-Feb-1970

Profession: film actor

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Carl de Vogt (14 September 1885 – 16 February 1970) was a German film actor who starred in four of Fritz Lang's early films.
He attended the acting school in Cologne, Germany.
Together with acting he was also active as a singer and recorded several discs.
His greatest hit was "Der Fremdenlegionär".
An extremely successful actor in his early career, he died in relative obscurity in 1970. In 1919 and 1920, de Vogt starred in director Fritz Lang's two-part Spiders films opposite actresses Lil Dagover and Ressel Orla.
In 1932, in the early sound era, he played the Prussian hero Major Schill in the big-budget historical film The Eleven Schill Officers. De Vogt was married to the German film actress Cläre Lotto, and the couple had a son Karl Franz de Vogt (born 14 May 1917).
He was a member of the NSDAP and the Sturmabteilung.