ACTOR

Harry Baur

1880 - 1943

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Harry Baur (12 April 1880 – 8 April 1943) was a French actor. Initially a stage actor, Baur appeared in about 80 films between 1909 and 1942. He gave an acclaimed performance as the composer Ludwig van Beethoven in the biopic Beethoven's Great Love (Un grand amour de Beethoven, 1936), directed by Abel Gance, and as Jean Valjean in Raymond Bernard's version of Les Misérables (1934). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Harry Baur has received more than 66,409 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Harry Baur is the 2,972nd most popular actor (up from 3,242nd in 2019), the 3,586th most popular biography from France (up from 3,595th in 2019) and the 214th most popular French Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 66k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.43

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Harry Baurs by language

Over the past year Harry Baur has had the most page views in the with 37,133 views, followed by English (7,768), and Russian (1,690). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Hungarian (79.46%), Egyptian Arabic (66.12%), and Bulgarian (65.77%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Harry Baur ranks 2,972 out of 13,578. Before him are Doris Roberts, Dennis Weaver, John Phillip Law, Dagmar Lassander, Zendaya, and Barry Jackson. After him are John Thaw, Pamela Tiffin, Andrew Robinson, Nick Cassavetes, Gordon Liu, and Andréa Parisy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1880, Harry Baur ranks 122. Before him are Samuel Jones, Jeannette Rankin, Walter Short, Eugen Slutsky, Richard Oswald, and Dmitry Karbyshev. After him are Carl Schuricht, Tom Mix, Alexander Bogomazov, W. C. Fields, Elizabeth Christ Trump, and Nikolai Podvoisky. Among people deceased in 1943, Harry Baur ranks 130. Before him are Yemelyan Yaroslavsky, W. S. Van Dyke, Bernhard Lichtenberg, Curt Haase, Henner Henkel, and Rutka Laskier. After him are Tōson Shimazaki, Richard Sears, Fats Waller, Anita Augspurg, Henri-Jean Guillaume Martin, and Kočo Racin.

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In France

Among people born in France, Harry Baur ranks 3,586 out of 6,770. Before him are Anna Gavalda (1970), Hugh VIII of Lusignan (1106), Baude Cordier (1364), Alain Barrière (1935), Henriette d'Angeville (1794), and Hilary of Arles (401). After him are Jacques Fatton (1925), Gaston Gallimard (1881), Gérard Collomb (1947), Jacques Herbrand (1908), Andréa Parisy (1935), and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe (1940).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Harry Baur ranks 214. Before him are Michel Aumont (1936), Anny Duperey (1947), Bulle Ogier (1939), Jehanne D'Alcy (1865), Edwige Feuillère (1907), and Ludivine Sagnier (1979). After him are Andréa Parisy (1935), Roger Carel (1927), Josiane Balasko (1950), David Belle (1973), Viviane Romance (1912), and Daniel Duval (1944).

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Television and Movie Roles

Les Misérables
Jean Valjean / Champmathieu
The lives of numerous people over the course of 20 years in 19th century France, weaved together by the story of an ex-convict named Jean Valjean on the run from an obsessive police inspector, who pursues him for only a minor offense.
Feb 9o 19347.798 / 10
A Man's Neck
Commissaire Jules Maigret
Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.
Feb 18o 19336.342 / 10
Un carnet de bal
Alain Regnault
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.
Sep 9o 19377.44 / 10