ACTOR

Marcel Ophüls

1927 - Today

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Marcel Ophuls (German: [ˈɔfʏls]; born 1 November 1927) is a German-French documentary film maker and former actor, best known for his films The Sorrow and the Pity and Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marcel Ophüls has received more than 109,922 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Marcel Ophüls is the 2,295th most popular actor (up from 2,865th in 2019), the 3,036th most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,387th in 2019) and the 71st most popular German Actor.

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  • 53.25

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  • 19

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  • 5.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Marcel Ophüls ranks 2,295 out of 13,578. Before him are Sabine Azéma, Tony Leung Ka-fai, Thomas Haden Church, John Hannah, Kiti Mánver, and Franciszek Pieczka. After him are Liz Sheridan, Judith Light, Meena Kumari, Sage Stallone, Anna Faris, and Akihiro Miwa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Marcel Ophüls ranks 171. Before him are Megumu Tamura, Erich Probst, Franco Maria Malfatti, Víctor Rodríguez Andrade, Endel Tulving, and Martha Chase. After him are Werner Liebrich, Ales Adamovich, Lee Konitz, Yutaka Taniyama, Josef Posipal, and Ahmadou Kourouma.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Marcel Ophüls ranks 3,036 out of 7,253. Before him are Johann Melchior Molter (1696), John VII, Duke of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1558), Theodoric of Freiberg (1250), Karl-Heinz Riedle (1965), Heinrich von Brentano (1904), and Augustus, Duke of Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg (1772). After him are Carl Peters (1856), Peter Stein (1937), Karlheinz Förster (1958), Horst Szymaniak (1934), Fritz Bleyl (1880), and Princess Mathilde of Bavaria (1877).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Marcel Ophüls ranks 71. Before him are Sonja Ziemann (1926), Anne Buydens (1919), Elga Andersen (1935), Wolfgang Preiss (1910), Karl Valentin (1882), and Franka Potente (1974). After him are Elmar Wepper (1944), Gustav Fröhlich (1902), Cornelia Froboess (1943), Meryem Uzerli (1983), Michael Ballhaus (1935), and Eric Braeden (1941).

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Television and Movie Roles

Lola Montès
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after having been the lover of various important men.
Dec 23o 19556.8 / 10
Love at Twenty
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Jun 22o 19626.7 / 10
Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
Self
Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupied France during World War II, Barbie would escape—with U.S. help—to South America in 1951, where he lived until a global manhunt led to his 1983 arrest and subsequent trial.
Nov 1o 19887 / 10