ACTOR

Heinz Rühmann

1902 - 1994

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Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (German: [haɪnts ˈʁyːman] ; 7 March 1902 – 3 October 1994) was a German film actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1926 and 1993. He is one of the most famous and popular German actors of the 20th century, and is considered a German film legend. Rühmann is best known for playing the part of a comic ordinary citizen in film comedies such as Three from the Filling Station and The Punch Bowl. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Heinz Rühmann has received more than 270,082 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Heinz Rühmann is the 1,744th most popular actor (down from 1,684th in 2019), the 2,416th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,295th in 2019) and the 52nd most popular German Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Heinz Rühmann ranks 1,744 out of 13,578Before him are Robert Brown, Sidse Babett Knudsen, Paolo Bonacelli, Kenneth Tsang, Mabel Normand, and Simone Simon. After him are Robert Pattinson, Mie Hama, Charles Vanel, Peter Alexander, Adriana Asti, and Andre Braugher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Heinz Rühmann ranks 116Before him are Josep Lluís Sert, Fuad Chehab, Karl Menger, Thelma Ritter, Ralph Richardson, and Alexander Mach. After him are Albert Anastasia, Hans von Dohnanyi, Mortimer J. Adler, Andrew Irvine, Regina Jonas, and Peng Zhen. Among people deceased in 1994, Heinz Rühmann ranks 116Before him are Walter Lantz, Antoine Pinay, Mehmed Orhan, Mario Brega, Yeshayahu Leibowitz, and Massimo Troisi. After him are Enrique Líster, Woody Strode, Giovanni Spadolini, Manfred Wörner, Claude Akins, and Derek Jarman.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinz Rühmann ranks 2,416 out of 7,253Before him are Johann Nikolaus von Hontheim (1701), Friedrich Christian Diez (1794), Heinrich Bär (1913), Joseph, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1789), Astrid Kirchherr (1938), and Princess Hermine of Anhalt-Bernburg-Schaumburg-Hoym (1797). After him are Wilhelm Schmidt (1868), Anna Schäffer (1882), John I, Count Palatine of Zweibrücken (1550), Philipp Ludwig Statius Müller (1725), Sahra Wagenknecht (1969), and Karlheinz Deschner (1924).

Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Heinz Rühmann ranks 52Before him are Werner Krauss (1884), Marianne Sägebrecht (1945), Sebastian Koch (1962), Martin Lawrence (1965), Rudolf Klein-Rogge (1885), and Hans Albers (1891). After him are Andrzej Seweryn (1946), Helmut Griem (1932), Rosa Albach-Retty (1874), Götz George (1938), Fritz Wepper (1941), and Walter Gotell (1924).