ACTOR

Anton Walbrook

1896 - 1967

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Adolf Anton Wilhelm Wohlbrück (19 November 1896 – 9 August 1967) was an Austrian actor who settled in the United Kingdom under the name Anton Walbrook. A popular performer in Austria and pre-war Germany, he left in 1936 out of concerns for his own safety and established a career in British cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anton Walbrook has received more than 462,869 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Anton Walbrook is the 5,040th most popular actor (down from 4,070th in 2019), the 916th most popular biography from Austria (down from 762nd in 2019) and the 51st most popular Austrian Actor.

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  • 47.08

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.16

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Anton Walbrook ranks 5,040 out of 13,578. Before him are Coleen Gray, Tony Lo Bianco, Freddie Jones, Marni Nixon, Stubby Kaye, and Bella Thorne. After him are Ben Chaplin, Dorothy Provine, Kane Hodder, Eduardo Noriega, Ken Uehara, and Kevin Gage.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Anton Walbrook ranks 210. Before him are Lotte Jacobi, Jack Pickford, Walter Breuning, Alberto Vargas, Alexander Brailowsky, and Sirarpie Der Nersessian. After him are Ethel Waters, Tommy Johnson, Kim Myeong-sun, George Parker, Giuseppe Enrici, and Luiz Vinhaes. Among people deceased in 1967, Anton Walbrook ranks 213. Before him are Rexhep Mitrovica, Péter Tóth, Bert Lahr, Alfred Felber, György Bródy, and Phyllis Johnson. After him are Hans Jacob Nielsen, Vilho Tuulos, Renzo De Vecchi, Michael J. Adams, Fridrikh Ermler, and Ulderico Sergo.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Anton Walbrook ranks 916 out of 1,424. Before him are Riane Eisler (1931), Josef Hassmann (1910), Eva Rueber-Staier (1951), Walter Rudin (1921), Josef Smistik (1905), and Adolf Kainz (1903). After him are Kurt Oppelt (1932), Franz West (1947), Herwig Wolfram (1934), Ruth Klüger (1931), Norbert Hofer (1971), and Felix Kaspar (1915).

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Among ACTORS In Austria

Among actors born in Austria, Anton Walbrook ranks 51. Before him are Willi Forst (1903), Sybil Danning (1952), Bibi Besch (1942), Danny Nucci (1968), Dietmar Schönherr (1926), and Eva Rueber-Staier (1951). After him are Oscar Homolka (1898), Maria Rohm (1945), Walter Slezak (1902), Eddie Polo (1875), Turhan Bey (1922), and Luise Ullrich (1910).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Red Shoes
Boris Lermontov
In this classic drama, Vicky Page is an aspiring ballerina torn between her dedication to dance and her desire to love. While her imperious instructor, Boris Lermontov, urges to her to forget anything but ballet, Vicky begins to fall for the charming young composer Julian Craster. Eventually Vicky, under great emotional stress, must choose to pursue either her art or her romance, a decision that carries serious consequences.
Sep 6o 19488 / 10
La Ronde
Raconteur - le meneur de jeu
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
Sep 27o 19507.426 / 10
Gaslight
Paul Mallen (as Anton Wahlbrook)
Twenty years removed from Alice Barlow's murder by a thief looking for her jewels, newlyweds Paul and Bella Mallen move into the very house where the crime was committed. Retired detective B.G. Rough, who worked on the Barlow case, is still in the area and grows suspicious of Paul, who he feels bears a striking resemblance to one of Barlow's relatives. Rough must find the truth before the killer can strike again and reclaim his bounty.
Aug 31o 19407.1 / 10