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Gottfried John

1942 - 2014

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Gottfried John (German: [ˈjoːn]; 29 August 1942 – 1 September 2014) was a German stage, screen, and voice actor. A longtime collaborator of Rainer Werner Fassbinder, John appeared in nine of his films between 1975 and 1981, the year before Fassbinder's death, including Eight Hours Don't Make a Day, Mother Küsters Goes to Heaven, Despair, The Marriage of Maria Braun, and Berlin Alexanderplatz. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gottfried John has received more than 453,916 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Gottfried John is the 1,051st most popular actor (down from 819th in 2019), the 1,578th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,241st in 2019) and the 30th most popular German Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.64

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.45

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gottfried John ranks 1,051 out of 13,578. Before him are Katina Paxinou, Alain Cuny, Olivia Hussey, Wallace Shawn, Jonathan Hyde, and Dean Cain. After him are Mary Steenburgen, Yvonne De Carlo, Marcia Cross, Kiefer Sutherland, Keira Knightley, and Richard Schiff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Gottfried John ranks 138. Before him are Geneviève Bujold, Robert H. Grubbs, Muslim Magomayev, Vasily Alekseyev, Christopher A. Sims, and Silvia Federici. After him are Carole King, John McLaughlin, Tasuku Honjo, Janusz Korwin-Mikke, Étienne Balibar, and Mirjana Marković. Among people deceased in 2014, Gottfried John ranks 83. Before him are Sabah, Malcolm Glazer, Karl Albrecht, Larry Scott, Ralph H. Baer, and Joan Rivers. After him are B. K. S. Iyengar, Run Run Shaw, Riz Ortolani, Mike Nichols, Milan Galić, and Louis Zamperini.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Gottfried John ranks 1,578 out of 7,253. Before him are Bruno Streckenbach (1902), Hans Speidel (1897), Oswald Achenbach (1827), Eric Voegelin (1901), Wolfgang, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1526), and Matthias Kleinheisterkamp (1893). After him are Marianne Weber (1870), Heiner Müller (1929), Gertrude of Hohenberg (1225), Maria Anna Sophia of Saxony (1728), August Leskien (1840), and Richard Glücks (1889).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Gottfried John ranks 30. Before him are Anne Wiazemsky (1947), Max Schreck (1879), Brigitte Helm (1906), Erdoğan Atalay (1966), Conrad Veidt (1893), and Karin Dor (1938). After him are Michael Fassbender (1977), Otto Sander (1941), Christian Oliver (1972), Countess Marie Larisch von Moennich (1858), Elke Sommer (1940), and Uta Hagen (1919).

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