ACTOR

Karl Valentin

1882 - 1948

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Karl Valentin (IPA: ['falɛntiːn], born Valentin Ludwig Fey, 4 June 1882 in Munich – 9 February 1948 in Planegg) was a Bavarian comedian. He had significant influence on German Weimar culture. Valentin starred in many silent films in the 1920s, and was sometimes called the "Charlie Chaplin of Germany". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Karl Valentin has received more than 156,227 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Karl Valentin is the 2,241st most popular actor (down from 2,162nd in 2019), the 2,990th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,827th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Actor.

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  • 160k

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  • 53.40

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.70

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Karl Valentin ranks 2,241 out of 13,578. Before him are Ona Munson, Cliff Curtis, Peter Strauss, Adam Baldwin, Peter MacNicol, and Carmen Salinas. After him are Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, Irène Jacob, Ottavia Piccolo, Kathy Baker, Geoffrey Lewis, and Temuera Morrison.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1882, Karl Valentin ranks 131. Before him are Halil Kut, Károly Huszár, Joseph Cardijn, Hugh Dowding, Maurice Germot, and Fiorello H. La Guardia. After him are Huseyn Javid, Holland Smith, Nicolae Titulescu, José Vasconcelos, Geraldine Farrar, and Kazimierz Bartel. Among people deceased in 1948, Karl Valentin ranks 99. Before him are Princess Marie Louise of Hanover, Georgios Tsolakoglou, Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, Leo White, Unity Mitford, and Pavel Rybalko. After him are Charles Evans Hughes, Alfred Kerr, Vicente Huidobro, Monteiro Lobato, Henri-Alexandre Deslandres, and Kan Kikuchi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Karl Valentin ranks 2,990 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Johann Georg of Hohenzollern (1932), Rudolf Stammler (1856), Princess Charlotte of Saxe-Meiningen (1751), Thilo Sarrazin (1945), Menahem Pressler (1923), and John IV, Duke of Bavaria (1437). After him are Duchess Elisabeth Alexandrine of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1869), Johann Baptist Cramer (1771), Johannes Dieckmann (1893), August Batsch (1761), Richard Ruoff (1883), and Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen (1763).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Karl Valentin ranks 69. Before him are Angela Winkler (1944), Ralf Moeller (1959), Sonja Ziemann (1926), Anne Buydens (1919), Elga Andersen (1935), and Wolfgang Preiss (1910). After him are Franka Potente (1974), Marcel Ophüls (1927), Elmar Wepper (1944), Gustav Fröhlich (1902), Cornelia Froboess (1943), and Meryem Uzerli (1983).

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