ACTOR

Lya Lys

1908 - 1986

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Lya Lys (born Nathalie Margoulis; May 18, 1908 – June 2, 1986) was a German-born American actress. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lya Lys has received more than 64,361 page views. Her biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Lya Lys is the 6,283rd most popular actor, the 5,256th most popular biography from Germany and the 219th most popular German Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 64k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.64

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.94

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Lya Lys ranks 6,283 out of 13,578. Before her are Richard Grieco, Aleksandr Bashirov, Park Eun-hye, Anjanette Comer, Keith Andes, and Mehmood. After her are Adam Goldberg, Jeanne Cooper, Imanol Arias, Lola Dueñas, Eleanor Bron, and Jim Hanks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Lya Lys ranks 363. Before her are Marcel Pinel, Aleksandr Zarkhi, Mae Questel, Kurt Neumann, Robert Pearce, and Sulo Nurmela. After her are Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana, Dragutin Najdanović, John Brinck, Alberto Zozaya, Heinz Pollay, and Vladimir I. Georgiev. Among people deceased in 1986, Lya Lys ranks 259. Before her are Yaşar Erkan, Hans Pesser, Robert Alda, Erik Svensson, James Fifer, and Alfonso Thiele. After her are Sara Sadíqova, Vladimir I. Georgiev, Una Merkel, Alan Jay Lerner, Sonny Terry, and Heather Angel.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Lya Lys ranks 5,256 out of 7,253. Before her are Moon Ga-young (1996), Bernhard Germeshausen (1951), Josef Ludwig von Armansperg (1787), Bernhard Langer (1957), Inge Helten (1950), and Dietmar Danner (1950). After her are Arthur Schuster (1851), Bärbel Bas (1968), Wolfgang Stark (1969), Herbert Schade (1922), Helmut Rix (1926), and Max Schöne (1880).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Lya Lys ranks 219. Before her are Uwe Ochsenknecht (1956), Allison Mack (1982), Katharine Cornell (1893), Justus von Dohnányi (1960), Grethe Weiser (1903), and Moon Ga-young (1996). After her are Sabine Moussier (1966), Ewald Balser (1898), Mady Rahl (1915), Danna García (1978), Dolly Haas (1910), and Inge Keller (1923).

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Television and Movie Roles

L'Âge d'or
The Woman
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
Nov 28o 19306.8 / 10
The Return of Doctor X
Angela
When news reporter Walter Garrett arrives at the hotel room of bombshell actress Angela Merrova to conduct an interview, he finds her dead from multiple stab wounds. He returns with the police to find the hotel empty and the body vanished. Garrett writes about the incident but is fired when Merrova, alive and well, goes to the paper to complain. Now his only chance to get his job back is to find the truth, which involves the grisly scheme of a madman.
Nov 23o 19396 / 10
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Erika Wolf
FBI agent Ed Renard investigates the pre-War espionage activities of the German-American Bund.
May 6o 19396 / 10