ACTOR

Curd Jürgens

1915 - 1982

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Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (13 December 1915 – 18 June 1982) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was well known for playing Ernst Udet in Des Teufels General. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Curd Jürgens has received more than 1,216,566 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Curd Jürgens is the 362nd most popular actor (up from 379th in 2019), the 609th most popular biography from Germany (up from 623rd in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Actor.

Curd Jürgens is most famous for his role as Major Heinrich Strasser in the 1965 James Bond film "Thunderball."

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  • 1.2M

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  • 64.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.50

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.19

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Curd Jürgens ranks 362 out of 13,578. Before him are Emil Jannings, Jeff Goldblum, Mithun Chakraborty, Alec Baldwin, Helena Bonham Carter, and Marie Laforêt. After him are Kate Winslet, George Peppard, Diana Rigg, Bill Bixby, Juliette Gréco, and Fanny Ardant.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Curd Jürgens ranks 25. Before him are Hu Yaobang, Jerome Bruner, Aung San, Sviatoslav Richter, Fred Hoyle, and Saul Bellow. After him are Charles H. Townes, Les Paul, Robert Hofstadter, Clifford Shull, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., and Aziz Nesin. Among people deceased in 1982, Curd Jürgens ranks 34. Before him are Hugo Theorell, Gilles Villeneuve, Jiro Horikoshi, William Giauque, Mikhail Suslov, and Stanford Moore. After him are Ivan Bagramyan, Hans Selye, Władysław Gomułka, Cevdet Sunay, Bachir Gemayel, and Helen of Greece and Denmark.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Curd Jürgens ranks 609 out of 7,253. Before him are Sandra (1962), Rudolf von Jhering (1818), Carl Gustav Jacob Jacobi (1804), Julia Drusilla (16), Arno Breker (1900), and Karl Wolff (1900). After him are Max Reger (1873), Johann Reuchlin (1455), Wolfgang Schäuble (1942), Georg Jellinek (1851), Bert Trautmann (1923), and Chlodwig, Prince of Hohenlohe-Schillingsfürst (1819).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Curd Jürgens ranks 4. Before him are Marlene Dietrich (1901), Bruce Willis (1955), and Simone Signoret (1921). After him are Magda Schneider (1909), Udo Kier (1944), Jürgen Prochnow (1941), Karlheinz Böhm (1928), Nastassja Kinski (1961), Hildegard Knef (1925), Luise Rainer (1910), and Horst Buchholz (1933).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Spy Who Loved Me
Karl Stromberg
Russian and British submarines with nuclear missiles on board both vanish from sight without a trace. England and Russia both blame each other as James Bond tries to solve the riddle of the disappearing ships. But the KGB also has an agent on the case.
Jul 7o 19776.794 / 10
The Enemy Below
Kapitän von Stolberg
The crew of the American destroyer escort, the USS Haynes, detects a German U-Boat—resulting in a prolonged, deadly battle of wits.
Dec 25o 19577 / 10
Battle of Britain
Baron von Richter
In 1940, the Royal Air Force fights a desperate battle against the might of the Luftwaffe for control of the skies over Britain, thus preventing the Nazi invasion of Britain.
Sep 15o 19696.8 / 10