ACTOR

Fritz Wepper

1941 - 2024

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Fritz Wepper (17 August 1941 – 25 March 2024) was a German film and television actor. He is best known for his role as Inspector Harry Klein in the long-running crime series Derrick (1974–1998). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fritz Wepper has received more than 274,027 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Fritz Wepper is the 1,898th most popular actor (down from 1,895th in 2019), the 2,605th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,542nd in 2019) and the 57th most popular German Actor.

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  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Fritz Wepper ranks 1,898 out of 13,578Before him are Dita Von Teese, Mitch Pileggi, Christina Ricci, Rob Schneider, Françoise Fabian, and Miranda Richardson. After him are Véra Clouzot, Frances Sternhagen, Larry Semon, Nicola Di Bari, Carmen Electra, and Eric Stoltz.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Fritz Wepper ranks 191Before him are Sarah Miles, George P. Cosmatos, Lothar Emmerich, Captain Beefheart, Chubby Checker, and Bohdan Stupka. After him are Salvador Sadurní, Hagen Kleinert, Jesse Jackson, Dana Ivey, Francisco Jara, and Dag Solstad. Among people deceased in 2024, Fritz Wepper ranks 146Before him are Paul Di'Anno, Thomas P. Stafford, Louis Gossett Jr., Alberto Colombo, Péter Eötvös, and Jim Abrahams. After him are Josip Manolić, Christopher Priest, Francisco Jara, Marlena Shaw, Richard S. Hamilton, and Anatoli Polivoda.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Fritz Wepper ranks 2,605 out of 7,253Before him are Ivica Račan (1944), Toni Turek (1919), Prince Louis Charles of Prussia (1773), Franz Reuleaux (1829), Charles I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken-Birkenfeld (1560), and Gottschalk of Orbais (805). After him are Erich Ribbeck (1937), Master Francke (1380), Rolf Hochhuth (1931), Hans Thoma (1839), Rudi Altig (1937), and Jacob Christian Schäffer (1718).

Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Fritz Wepper ranks 57Before him are Hans Albers (1891), Heinz Rühmann (1902), Andrzej Seweryn (1946), Helmut Griem (1932), Rosa Albach-Retty (1874), and Götz George (1938). After him are Walter Gotell (1924), Gedeon Burkhard (1969), Pam Ferris (1948), George Dzundza (1945), Sibel Kekilli (1980), and Angela Winkler (1944).