1906 - 1996
Brigitte Helm (born Brigitte Gisela Eva Schittenhelm, 17 March 1908 – 11 June 1996) was a German actress, best remembered for her dual role as Maria and her double named Futura, in Fritz Lang's 1927 silent film, Metropolis. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brigitte Helm has received more than 447,714 page views. Her biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Brigitte Helm is the 876th most popular actor (up from 998th in 2019), the 1,318th most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,512th in 2019) and the 18th most popular German Actor.
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Among actors, Brigitte Helm ranks 876 out of 9,996. Before her are Michael Rooker, Sterling Hayden, Macaulay Culkin, Ralph Bellamy, Helen McCrory, and Dolores del Río. After her are Lou Ferrigno, Robert Patrick, Ljubiša Samardžić, River Phoenix, Chadwick Boseman, and Elsa Martinelli.
1955 - Present
HPI: 59.00
Rank: 870
1916 - 1986
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 871
1980 - Present
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 872
1904 - 1991
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 873
1968 - 2021
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 874
1905 - 1983
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 875
1906 - 1996
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 876
1951 - Present
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 877
1958 - Present
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 878
1936 - 2017
HPI: 58.94
Rank: 879
1970 - 1993
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 880
1977 - 2020
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 881
1935 - 2017
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 882
Among people born in 1906, Brigitte Helm ranks 74. Before her are John Dickson Carr, Nelson Goodman, Princess Theodora of Greece and Denmark, Janet Gaynor, Walter Rauff, and Ivan Chernyakhovsky. After her are Gusztáv Sebes, Carlo Scarpa, Zhou Youguang, Lillian Asplund, John Carradine, and Markos Vafeiadis. Among people deceased in 1996, Brigitte Helm ranks 60. Before her are Green Boots, Lucio Fulci, Piet Hein, Lars Ahlfors, Alain Poher, and Robert, Archduke of Austria-Este. After her are Albert R. Broccoli, Shūsaku Endō, František Plánička, Nicu Ceaușescu, Toru Takemitsu, and Frida Boccara.
1906 - 1977
HPI: 59.62
Rank: 68
1906 - 1998
HPI: 59.53
Rank: 69
1906 - 1969
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 70
1906 - 1984
HPI: 59.37
Rank: 71
1906 - 1984
HPI: 59.05
Rank: 72
1906 - 1945
HPI: 59.04
Rank: 73
1906 - 1996
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 74
1906 - 1986
HPI: 58.88
Rank: 75
1906 - 1978
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 76
1906 - 2017
HPI: 58.76
Rank: 77
1906 - 2006
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 78
1906 - 1988
HPI: 58.37
Rank: 79
1906 - 1992
HPI: 58.31
Rank: 80
HPI: 59.28
Rank: 54
1927 - 1996
HPI: 59.20
Rank: 55
1905 - 1996
HPI: 59.08
Rank: 56
1907 - 1996
HPI: 59.07
Rank: 57
1909 - 1996
HPI: 59.01
Rank: 58
1915 - 1996
HPI: 58.99
Rank: 59
1906 - 1996
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 60
1909 - 1996
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 61
1923 - 1996
HPI: 58.90
Rank: 62
1904 - 1996
HPI: 58.86
Rank: 63
1951 - 1996
HPI: 58.85
Rank: 64
1930 - 1996
HPI: 58.84
Rank: 65
1940 - 1996
HPI: 58.83
Rank: 66
Among people born in Germany, Brigitte Helm ranks 1,318 out of 6,142. Before her are Rudolf Caracciola (1901), August von Kotzebue (1761), Frederick Francis I, Grand Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1756), Karl-Otto Apel (1922), Marian Gold (1954), and Johann Friedrich Böttger (1682). After her are Franciscus Sylvius (1614), Georg Kaiser (1878), Prince Charles of Prussia (1801), Princess Anna of Prussia (1836), Otto Kumm (1909), and John Polanyi (1929).
1901 - 1959
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,312
1761 - 1819
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,313
1756 - 1837
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,314
1922 - 2017
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,315
1954 - Present
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1,316
1682 - 1719
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1,317
1906 - 1996
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1,318
1614 - 1672
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1,319
1878 - 1945
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 1,320
1801 - 1883
HPI: 58.93
Rank: 1,321
1836 - 1918
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 1,322
1909 - 2004
HPI: 58.92
Rank: 1,323
1929 - Present
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 1,324
Among actors born in Germany, Brigitte Helm ranks 18. Before her are Karlheinz Böhm (1928), Nastassja Kinski (1961), Horst Tappert (1923), Lale Andersen (1905), Karin Schubert (1944), and Gottfried John (1942). After her are Hildegard Knef (1925), Max Schreck (1879), Til Schweiger (1963), Lilli Palmer (1914), Karin Dor (1938), and Erika Mann (1905).
1928 - 2014
HPI: 61.31
Rank: 12
1961 - Present
HPI: 61.10
Rank: 13
1923 - 2008
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 14
1905 - 1972
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 15
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 16
1942 - 2014
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 17
1906 - 1996
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 18
1925 - 2002
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 19
1879 - 1936
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 20
1963 - Present
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 21
1914 - 1986
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 22
1938 - 2017
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 23
1905 - 1969
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 24