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Horst Buchholz

1933 - 2003

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Horst Werner Buchholz (4 December 1933 – 3 March 2003) was a German actor who appeared in more than 60 feature films from 1951 to 2002. During his youth, he was sometimes called "the German James Dean". He is perhaps best known in English-speaking countries for his roles as Chico in The Magnificent Seven (1960), as a communist in Billy Wilder's One, Two, Three (1961), and as Dr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Horst Buchholz has received more than 1,868,651 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Horst Buchholz is the 515th most popular actor (up from 651st in 2019), the 804th most popular biography from Germany (up from 976th in 2019) and the 9th most popular German Actor.

Horst Buchholz is most famous for his role as Captain Hans von Witzland in the movie "The Sound of Music."

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  • 26

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  • 5.81

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  • 2.30

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Horst Buchholz ranks 515 out of 9,996Before him are Robert Carlyle, Shelley Winters, Jennifer Jones, Carl Weathers, Mel Ferrer, and Gert Fröbe. After him are Mark Wahlberg, Michel Galabru, Cillian Murphy, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, and Gena Rowlands.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Horst Buchholz ranks 50Before him are Paul J. Crutzen, Richard R. Ernst, Jayne Mansfield, Samora Machel, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, and John Gurdon. After him are Willie Nelson, Jeremy Brett, Bobby Robson, Henri, Count of Paris, Ali Shariati, and Mohammad-Ali Rajai. Among people deceased in 2003, Horst Buchholz ranks 31Before him are Franco Modigliani, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Luciano Berio, Nǃxau ǂToma, Zoran Đinđić, and David Dacko. After him are Bernard Katz, Bertram Brockhouse, Alberto Sordi, Celia Cruz, Frank Sheeran, and Edgar F. Codd.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Horst Buchholz ranks 804 out of 6,142Before him are Herbert Kroemer (1928), Agnes of Merania (1175), Günther Prien (1908), Johann Adolph Hasse (1699), Carl-Heinrich von Stülpnagel (1886), and Gert Fröbe (1913). After him are Frank Wedekind (1864), Gustav Radbruch (1878), Albert V, Duke of Bavaria (1528), Friedrich Georg Wilhelm von Struve (1793), Pavlo Skoropadskyi (1873), and Bernard Katz (1911).

Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Horst Buchholz ranks 9Before him are Simone Signoret (1921), Jürgen Prochnow (1941), Curd Jürgens (1915), Hardy Krüger (1928), Magda Schneider (1909), and Gert Fröbe (1913). After him are Emmy Göring (1893), Udo Kier (1944), Karlheinz Böhm (1928), Nastassja Kinski (1961), Horst Tappert (1923), and Lale Andersen (1905).

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