Fritz Klein is a professional Abraham Lincoln impersonator.
During the filming of Lost River: Lincoln's Secret Weapon (2010), there was a photograph
taken to be used so that a painter could reconstruct a copy of the
original painting by Francis Carpenter of the signing of the
Emancipation Proclamation. From looking at a print of the original
Carpenter painting, Klein immediately assessed his make-up option. "I
need the 'high' hair," he said.
Klein, who was born in 1948, has been impersonating/portraying President Abraham Lincoln since he was 28 years old. He began, therefore, in the United States' Bi-Centennial year, 1976.