ACTOR

Hans Christian Blech

1915 - 1993

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Hans Christian Blech (20 February 1915 – 5 March 1993) was a German film, stage and television character actor who found success in both Germany and Hollywood. He made his English film debut in the 1951 picture Decision Before Dawn. In this and many of his other Hollywood films, he played a German soldier. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Christian Blech has received more than 261,446 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Hans Christian Blech is the 2,773rd most popular actor (up from 2,959th in 2019), the 3,501st most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,434th in 2019) and the 95th most popular German Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 260k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.99

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.04

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Hans Christian Bleches by language

Over the past year Hans Christian Blech has had the most page views in the with 35,307 views, followed by English (27,732), and French (6,634). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Volapük (189.40%), Egyptian Arabic (159.26%), and Latin (132.18%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Hans Christian Blech ranks 2,773 out of 13,578. Before him are Toni Servillo, Jacques Lecoq, Vladimir Etush, Eve Meyer, Dominic Monaghan, and Ignacio López Tarso. After him are Ulla Jacobsson, Cathy O'Donnell, Richard Bremmer, Franca Rame, Lynn Cohen, and Tyne Daly.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Hans Christian Blech ranks 129. Before him are Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, Eddie Bracken, Albert O. Hirschman, Vítězslava Kaprálová, M. F. Husain, and John Tukey. After him are Wilhelm Gliese, Zulfiya, Taheyya Kariokka, Norman Wisdom, Kurt Aland, and Amedeo Biavati. Among people deceased in 1993, Hans Christian Blech ranks 133. Before him are Moses Gunn, Edward Bernard Raczyński, Nicanor Zabaleta, Karl Mai, Thurgood Marshall, and Friedrich Dickel. After him are Valentina Grizodubova, Wilhelm Gliese, Yuri Bezmenov, Mick Ronson, Mieczysław Horszowski, and Max August Zorn.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hans Christian Blech ranks 3,501 out of 7,253. Before him are Dominic Monaghan (1976), John Casimir, Prince of Anhalt-Dessau (1596), Robert von Mohl (1799), Christopher II, Margrave of Baden-Rodemachern (1537), Hildegard Behrens (1937), and Friedrich Josias, Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1918). After him are Hermann Muhs (1894), Heinrich Anton de Bary (1831), Lotte Lehmann (1888), Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833), Erich Salomon (1886), and Paul Dessau (1894).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Hans Christian Blech ranks 95. Before him are Fahriye Evcen (1986), Brunhilde Pomsel (1911), Judith Malina (1926), Alfred Abel (1879), Siegfried Rauch (1932), and Dominic Monaghan (1976). After him are Margit Carstensen (1940), Iris Berben (1950), Ingrid Caven (1938), Ilse Steppat (1917), Michel Auclair (1922), and Sybille Schmitz (1909).

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Television and Movie Roles

Battle of the Bulge
Conrad
In the winter of 1944, the Allied Armies stand ready to invade Germany at the coming of a New Year. To prevent it, Hitler orders an all-out offensive to re-take French territory and capture the major port city of Antwerp.
Dec 16o 19656.927 / 10
Wrong Move
Laertes
Six days in the life of Wilhelm: a detached man without qualities. He wants to write, so his mother gives him a ticket to Bonn, telling him to live. On the train he meets an older man, an athlete in the 1936 Olympics, and his mute teen companion, Mignon. She's an acrobat in market squares for spare change.
Jun 29o 19756.838 / 10
The Longest Day
Maj. Werner Pluskat
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Sep 25o 19627.6 / 10