ACTOR

Johannes Heesters

1903 - 2011

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Johan Marius Nicolaas Heesters (5 December 1903 – 24 December 2011), known professionally as Johannes Heesters, was a Dutch actor of stage, television and film, as well as a vocalist of numerous recordings and performer on the concert stage with a career dating back to the 1920s. He worked as an actor until his death and is one of the oldest performing entertainers in history, performing shortly before his death at the age of 108. Heesters was almost exclusively active in the German-speaking world from the mid-1930s and became a film star in Nazi Germany, which later led to controversy in his native country. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Johannes Heesters has received more than 271,881 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Johannes Heesters is the 945th most popular actor (down from 931st in 2019), the 216th most popular biography from Netherlands (down from 199th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Dutch Actor.

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  • 52

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  • 2.63

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  • 5.44

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Johannes Heesters ranks 945 out of 13,578. Before him are Michelle Rodriguez, Ryan Reynolds, Corinne Cléry, Audrey Tautou, Catherine O'Hara, and Ann-Margret. After him are Marthe Keller, Lucy Liu, Arletty, Brigitte Helm, Helena Rojo, and Conchata Ferrell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Johannes Heesters ranks 75. Before him are Joan Robinson, Sadegh Hedayat, Fritz Bauer, Waldemar Hoven, Kim Chaek, and Maria Reiche. After him are Henry Corbin, Werner Best, Bob Hope, Karl Eberhard Schöngarth, Charlotte Perriand, and Yevgeny Mravinsky. Among people deceased in 2011, Johannes Heesters ranks 70. Before him are Daniel Bell, Richard Hamilton, Baruch Samuel Blumberg, Cliff Robertson, Itamar Franco, and Yelena Bonner. After him are Ferenc Mádl, Tom Gehrels, Masahiro Hamazaki, Michael Gough, Paul Baran, and Vasily Alekseyev.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Johannes Heesters ranks 216 out of 1,646. Before him are Wim Jansen (1946), Antonis Mor (1519), Abraham Kuyper (1837), Samuel Dirksz van Hoogstraten (1627), Peter Stuyvesant (1612), and Willem van Aelst (1627). After him are Anton Geesink (1934), Cornelis van Haarlem (1562), Tjalling Koopmans (1910), Johan van Oldenbarnevelt (1547), L. E. J. Brouwer (1881), and Countess Louise Juliana of Nassau (1576).

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Among ACTORS In Netherlands

Among actors born in Netherlands, Johannes Heesters ranks 5. Before him are Rutger Hauer (1944), Sylvia Kristel (1952), Famke Janssen (1964), and Jeroen Krabbé (1944). After him are Carel Struycken (1948), Fons Rademakers (1920), Nina Foch (1924), Herman van Veen (1945), Derek de Lint (1950), Carice van Houten (1976), and Maruschka Detmers (1962).

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Television and Movie Roles

Otto - The Movie
Clochard
East Friesian Otto moves to the big city Hamburg. There he gets into trouble with a loan shark and needs to find a way to impress his love interest Silvia.
Jul 19o 19856.488 / 10
The Beggar Student
Symon Rymanowicz / Herzog Kasimir
To take a revenge on countess Laura, who slapped him at his proposal, the Governor of the occupied Poland gets her fall in love with a poor student, and exposes him during wedding banquet.
Aug 6o 19365.6 / 10
1½ Knights - In Search of the Ravishing Princess Herzelinde
Wissenschaftler
The story of Lanze who is in love with the princess. One day the princess is kidnapped by the Dark Knight and Lanze starts his journey to rescue her. But he is not alone because Erdal, a turk, joins him on his journey.
Dec 17o 20084.366 / 10