ACTOR

Henny Porten

1890 - 1960

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Frieda Ulricke "Henny" Porten (7 January 1890 – 15 October 1960) was a German actress and film producer of the silent era, and Germany's first major film star. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henny Porten has received more than 62,695 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Henny Porten is the 2,450th most popular actor (down from 2,401st in 2019), the 3,199th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,015th in 2019) and the 79th most popular German Actor.

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  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.40

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  • 3.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Henny Porten ranks 2,450 out of 13,578Before her are Bruno Kirby, Thomas Gibson, Rufus Sewell, Anita Björk, Bodil Ipsen, and Marion Davies. After her are Aldo Fabrizi, Yuen Wah, Jean Servais, Michelle Fairley, Emília Vášáryová, and Kyra Sedgwick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Henny Porten ranks 122Before her are Michał Rola-Żymierski, Ahmad Kasravi, Princess Dagmar of Denmark, Fritz Busch, Elizabeth Bolden, and André-Louis Danjon. After her are Dion Fortune, Walter Hasenclever, Elia Abu Madi, Sigurd Hoel, André Gobert, and Helge Løvland. Among people deceased in 1960, Henny Porten ranks 100Before her are Johan Gunnar Andersson, Mitrofan Nedelin, Eric Temple Bell, Friedrich Kirchner, Yury Olesha, and Erich Neumann. After her are Sigurd Hoel, Knud Enemark Jensen, Catherine Desnitski, Joseph Vendryes, Harry Schell, and Alexander Mountbatten, 1st Marquess of Carisbrooke.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Henny Porten ranks 3,199 out of 7,253Before her are Alfred Schwarzmann (1912), Margaret of Bavaria, Electress Palatine (1456), Abraham a Sancta Clara (1644), Eberhard August Wilhelm von Zimmermann (1743), Dorothea Maria of Anhalt (1574), and Friedrich Kohlrausch (1840). After her are Martin Winterkorn (1947), Hans-Jörg Butt (1974), Karl Mollweide (1774), Boris Pistorius (1960), Jacques Ignace Hittorff (1792), and Frederick III, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1699).

Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Henny Porten ranks 79Before her are Gustav Fröhlich (1902), Cornelia Froboess (1943), Meryem Uzerli (1983), Michael Ballhaus (1935), Eric Braeden (1941), and Susan Blakely (1948). After her are Sandra Hüller (1978), Anita Berber (1899), Horst Frank (1929), Carola Neher (1900), Dieter Hallervorden (1935), and Richard Sammel (1960).