High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Wolf-Egbert Klapproth (aka Wolf K. Roth) (b. August 22, 1945 in Torgau, Germany) is a German theatre and television actor. He was born in Torgau, where his family had fled during World War II. He was raised and educated in Bremen. In 1961 he moved to the United States and graduated from the Edsel Ford High School in Detroit, Michigan. He spent the next months travelling through the Midwest of the US.