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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 1,142,213 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Curd Jürgens is the 379th most popular actor (up from 410th in 2019), the 623rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 655th in 2019) and the 5th 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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  • 64.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.31

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Curd Jürgens ranks 379 out of 9,996. Before him are Marina Vlady, John Goodman, Emma Thompson, Gian Maria Volonté, Diana Rigg, and Françoise Dorléac. After him are Roy Scheider, Desmond Llewelyn, Frances Farmer, Chow Yun-fat, Gloria Swanson, and Richard Griffiths.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Curd Jürgens ranks 26. Before him are Aung San, Sviatoslav Richter, Saul Bellow, Fred Hoyle, Hu Yaobang, and Les Paul. After him are Charles H. Townes, Robert Hofstadter, Norman Foster Ramsey Jr., Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Shoichi Yokoi, and Robert A. Dahl. Among people deceased in 1982, Curd Jürgens ranks 33. Before him are Mikhail Suslov, Hugh Everett III, Ivan Bagramyan, Hugo Theorell, Helen of Greece and Denmark, and Georges Perec. After him are Cevdet Sunay, John Belushi, Stanford Moore, Władysław Gomułka, Thelonious Monk, and Jiro Horikoshi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Curd Jürgens ranks 623 out of 6,142. Before him are William IV, Grand Duke of Luxembourg (1852), Manfred Eigen (1927), Maximilian III Joseph, Elector of Bavaria (1727), Adam of Bremen (null), August Horch (1868), and Franz Stuck (1863). After him are Fritz Perls (1893), Erich Priebke (1913), Johannes Rau (1931), August Bebel (1840), Hans Morgenthau (1904), and Reinhard Gehlen (1902).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Curd Jürgens ranks 5. Before him are Marlene Dietrich (1901), Bruce Willis (1955), Simone Signoret (1921), and Jürgen Prochnow (1941). After him are Hardy Krüger (1928), Magda Schneider (1909), Gert Fröbe (1913), Horst Buchholz (1933), Emmy Göring (1893), Udo Kier (1944), and Karlheinz Böhm (1928).

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