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Bibi Besch

1942 - 1996

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Bibi Besch (born Bibiana Maria Köchert; February 1, 1942 – September 7, 1996) was an Austrian-American film, television, and stage actress. She is best known for her portrayal of Dr. Carol Marcus in the science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bibi Besch has received more than 1,284,672 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Bibi Besch is the 4,567th most popular actor (up from 5,328th in 2019), the 869th most popular biography from Austria (down from 858th in 2019) and the 47th most popular Austrian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Bibi Besches by language

Over the past year Bibi Besch has had the most page views in the with 169,467 views, followed by German (16,651), and Italian (5,983). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Italian (210.97%), Uzbek (190.57%), and Malay (130.94%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Bibi Besch ranks 4,567 out of 13,578. Before her are Balraj Sahni, Alison Doody, Maria Bonnevie, Willy Birgel, Robert Guillaume, and Aruna Irani. After her are Kate Bruce, Signe Hasso, Kazuya Nakai, Joe Alwyn, Kristofer Hivju, and Campbell Scott.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Bibi Besch ranks 457. Before her are Antoni Piechniczek, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Heidemarie Wieczorek-Zeul, Clara Nunes, Alexander Kalyagin, and Fernando Atzori. After her are John E. Blaha, Françoise Dürr, Lima, Pedro Morales, John Seale, and Colin Groves. Among people deceased in 1996, Bibi Besch ranks 225. Before her are Charles Jewtraw, Jurandir de Freitas, Wolfgang Koeppen, Bernard Edwards, Robert Nisbet, and Bai Yang. After her are Maati Bouabid, Adelaide Lambert, Arthur Rudolph, Zainab Biisheva, Alfredo Nobre da Costa, and Bill Monroe.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Bibi Besch ranks 869 out of 1,424. Before her are Alfred Teinitzer (1929), Wilhelm Karl Ritter von Haidinger (1795), Johann Urbanek (1910), Robert Lowie (1883), Anna von Mildenburg (1872), and Leopold Hofmann (1905). After her are Robert Sara (1946), Christl Haas (1943), Marianne Hainisch (1839), Christian Schwarz-Schilling (1930), Otto Stapf (1857), and Fritzi Burger (1910).

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Among ACTORS In Austria

Among actors born in Austria, Bibi Besch ranks 47. Before her are Liane Haid (1895), Hans Moser (1880), La Jana (1905), O. W. Fischer (1915), Willi Forst (1903), and Sybil Danning (1952). After her are Danny Nucci (1968), Dietmar Schönherr (1926), Eva Rueber-Staier (1951), Anton Walbrook (1896), Oscar Homolka (1898), and Maria Rohm (1945).

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Television and Movie Roles

Tremors
Megan - The Doctor's Wife
Hick handymen Val McKee and Earl Bassett can barely eke out a living in the Nevada hamlet of Perfection, so they decide to leave town -- despite an admonition from a shapely seismology coed who's picking up odd readings on her equipment. Before long, Val and Earl discover what's responsible for those readings: 30-foot-long carnivorous worms with a proclivity for sucking their prey underground.
Jan 19o 19906.882 / 10
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Dr. Carol Marcus
It is the 23rd century. The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this inspection may well be the last space mission of his career. But Khan is back. Aided by his exiled band of genetic supermen, Khan - brilliant renegade of 20th century Earth - has raided Space Station Regula One, stolen a top secret device called Project Genesis, wrested control of another Federation Starship and sets out in pursuit of the Enterprise, determined to let nothing stand in the way of his mission: kill Admiral Kirk... even if it means universal Armageddon.
Jun 4o 19827.5 / 10
Who's That Girl
Ms. Worthington
An uptight New York tax lawyer gets his life turned upside down, all in a single day, when he's asked to escort a feisty and free-spirited female ex-convict whom asks him to help prove her innocence of her crime.
Aug 7o 19875.5 / 10