ACTOR

Anton Diffring

1916 - 1989

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Anton Diffring (born Alfred Pollack; 20 October 1916 – 19 May 1989) was a German actor. He had an extensive film and television career in the United Kingdom from the 1940s to the 1980s, latterly appearing in international films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Diffring has received more than 609,567 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Anton Diffring is the 3,189th most popular actor (up from 3,864th in 2019), the 3,795th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,911th in 2019) and the 110th most popular German Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 610k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Anton Diffrings by language

Over the past year Anton Diffring has had the most page views in the with 72,276 views, followed by German (13,724), and Italian (8,179). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Volapük (195.31%), Afrikaans (55.45%), and Korean (26.67%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Anton Diffring ranks 3,189 out of 13,578. Before him are Kenneth Welsh, Stephen Collins, Ed Begley, Henry Ian Cusick, Elias Koteas, and Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė. After him are Alain Souchon, Akira Terao, Gorden Kaye, Inger Stevens, Yūjirō Ishihara, and Clémence Poésy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Anton Diffring ranks 153. Before him are Françoise Giroud, Jack Arnold, Arie van Vliet, Evelyn Keyes, Paul Halmos, and Dom Mintoff. After him are Werner Bischof, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Svend Asmussen, Jenő Fock, Franco Fabrizi, and Torsten Hägerstrand. Among people deceased in 1989, Anton Diffring ranks 158. Before him are Nikolai Grinko, Hilmar Baunsgaard, Luiz Gonzaga, Henri Sauguet, Huey P. Newton, and Jean-Michel Charlier. After him are János Farkas, Kaj Franck, Archduchess Charlotte of Austria, Tirumalai Krishnamacharya, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, and Harold Jeffreys.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anton Diffring ranks 3,795 out of 7,253. Before him are Ernest, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1655), Friedrich von Esmarch (1823), Friedrich Theodor Vischer (1807), Georg Hermann Quincke (1834), Albrecht Haushofer (1903), and Uwe Rahn (1962). After him are Princess Caroline of Great Britain (1713), Frederick IV, Duke of Brunswick-Lüneburg (1574), Hermann Zapf (1918), Albert Betz (1885), Friedrich Gernsheim (1839), and Albrecht Thaer (1752).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Anton Diffring ranks 110. Before him are Gustav Knuth (1901), Otto Waalkes (1948), Jean-Marc Barr (1960), Irm Hermann (1942), Holger Meins (1941), and Nur Fettahoğlu (1980). After him are Friedrich Ludwig Schröder (1744), Petra Schürmann (1933), Albert Bassermann (1867), Mathieu Carrière (1950), Peter Carsten (1928), and Dora Gerson (1899).

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Television and Movie Roles

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