ACTOR

Hardy Krüger

1928 - 2022

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Hardy Krüger (German: [haːɐ̯.di ˈkʁyː.ɡɐ] ; born Eberhard August Franz Ewald Krüger; 12 April 1928 – 19 January 2022) was a German actor and author who appeared in more than 60 films from 1944 onwards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hardy Krüger has received more than 1,366,388 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). Hardy Krüger is the 617th most popular actor (down from 459th in 2019), the 978th most popular biography from Germany (down from 721st in 2019) and the 13th most popular German Actor.

Hardy Krüger is most famous for his role in the film "The Bridge on the River Kwai" as Colonel Saito.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.75

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Hardy Krügers by language

Over the past year Hardy Krüger has had the most page views in the with 150,236 views, followed by English (128,639), and French (29,720). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Volapük (246.04%), Haitian (144.83%), and Galician (103.50%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Hardy Krüger ranks 617 out of 13,578. Before him are Shelley Duvall, James Gandolfini, Benicio del Toro, Jim Belushi, Stanley Tucci, and Richard S. Castellano. After him are Bernard Hill, James Cagney, Cornel Wilde, Pierre Brice, Shelley Winters, and Steve Reeves.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Hardy Krüger ranks 61. Before him are Geert Hofstede, Li Peng, Zulfikar Ali Bhutto, Elliott Erwitt, Carl Woese, and Jacques Rivette. After him are Giampiero Boniperti, Gene Sharp, Joe Jackson, Musa al-Sadr, Hans Modrow, and Manfred Rommel. Among people deceased in 2022, Hardy Krüger ranks 56. Before him are Louise Fletcher, Meat Loaf, Antonio Inoki, Arata Isozaki, Valeri Polyakov, and James Lovelock. After him are Stanislav Shushkevich, Issei Sagawa, Robert Curl, Siniša Mihajlović, Ricardo Bofill, and Jean-Jacques Sempé.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Hardy Krüger ranks 978 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Joachim Becher (1635), Christian Gottfried Ehrenberg (1795), Alfred Weber (1868), Franz Ziereis (1905), Joseph Karl Stieler (1781), and Christoph Martin Wieland (1733). After him are Albert of Riga (1165), Countess Augusta Reuss of Ebersdorf (1757), Albert I, Duke of Bavaria (1336), Princess Marianne of the Netherlands (1810), Frederick IV, Duke of Holstein-Gottorp (1671), and Reinhard Scheer (1863).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Hardy Krüger ranks 13. Before him are Jürgen Prochnow (1941), Karlheinz Böhm (1928), Nastassja Kinski (1961), Hildegard Knef (1925), Luise Rainer (1910), and Horst Buchholz (1933). After him are Emmy Göring (1893), Gert Fröbe (1913), Karin Schubert (1944), Lale Andersen (1905), Horst Tappert (1923), and Erika Mann (1905).

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Television and Movie Roles

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