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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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  • 4.77

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Heinz Rühmann ranks 1,744 out of 13,578. Before 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 116. Before 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 116. Before 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 7,253. Before 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).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Heinz Rühmann ranks 52. Before 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).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Punch Bowl
Dr. Johannes Pfeiffer/Hans Pfeiffer
Die Feuerzangenbowle from Director Helmut Weiss is based on the novel by the same name from Heinrich Spoerl and Hans Reimann that has turned into a cult German film. The film tells the story of a writer Johannes Pfeiffer who goes undercover as a student in a high school after his friends told him that he missed out on a great life experience since he was home schooled.
Jan 28th 19447.192 / 10
It Happened in Broad Daylight
Oberleutnant Matthäi
The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
Jun 9th 19587.3 / 10
The Captain from Kopenick
Wilhelm Voigt
The 1956 movie based on the theater play by Carl Zuckmayer based on the true story of cobbler Wilhelm Voigt who dressed up as a German military officer and, with the help of unsuspecting soldiers, took over the city hall in Köpenick and confiscated the city's purse.
Aug 15th 19567.2 / 10