ACTOR

Mario Adorf

1930 - Today

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Mario Adorf (German: [ˈmaː.ʁio ˈaː.dɔʁf] ; born 8 September 1930) is a German actor, considered to be one of the great veteran character actors of European cinema. Since 1954, he has played both leading and supporting roles in over 200 film and television productions, among them the 1979 Oscar-winning film The Tin Drum. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mario Adorf has received more than 332,351 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Mario Adorf is the 897th most popular actor (down from 822nd in 2019), the 132nd most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 121st in 2019) and the 4th most popular Swiss Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 59.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mario Adorf ranks 897 out of 13,578. Before him are Miki Manojlović, Jeffrey DeMunn, Tatsuya Nakadai, Norman Reedus, Halit Ergenç, and Jill Ireland. After him are Colin Farrell, Michel Serrault, Karen Grassle, Barbara Hershey, Lotte Lenya, and James Mason.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Mario Adorf ranks 93. Before him are Barbara, Son Sen, Ernst Albrecht, Ed White, Saad Al-Salim Al-Sabah, and Michal Kováč. After him are Edgar Mitchell, Hilderaldo Bellini, Frank Drake, Harvey Milk, Itamar Franco, and Mauro Ramos.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Mario Adorf ranks 132 out of 1,015. Before him are Margareta of Romania (1949), Judith of Habsburg (1271), Alfonsina Storni (1892), Johann Geiler von Kaysersberg (1445), Antoine-Henri Jomini (1779), and Heinrich Bullinger (1504). After him are Emil Abderhalden (1877), Frank Martin (1890), Sophie Taeuber-Arp (1889), Marthe Keller (1945), Rodolphe Töpffer (1799), and Jost Amman (1539).

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Among ACTORS In Switzerland

Among actors born in Switzerland, Mario Adorf ranks 4. Before him are Bruno Ganz (1941), Ursula Andress (1936), and Emil Jannings (1884). After him are Marthe Keller (1945), Michel Simon (1895), Vincent Perez (1964), Liselotte Pulver (1929), Daniel Bernhardt (1965), David Bennent (1966), Sofia Milos (1969), and Lukas Ammann (1912).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Tin Drum
Alfred Matzerath
Oskar Matzerath is a very unusual boy. Refusing to leave the womb until promised a tin drum by his mother, Agnes, Oskar is reluctant to enter a world he sees as filled with hypocrisy and injustice, and vows on his third birthday to never grow up. Miraculously, he gets his wish. As the Nazis rise to power in Danzig, Oskar wills himself to remain a child, beating his tin drum incessantly and screaming in protest at the chaos surrounding him.
May 2o 19796.9 / 10
The Italian Connection
Luca Canali
When a shipment of heroin disappears between Italy and New York, a small-time pimp in Milan is framed for the theft. Two professional hitmen are dispatched from New York to find him, but the real thieves want to get rid of him before the New York killers get to him to eliminate any chance of them finding out he's the wrong man.
Sep 2o 19727.1 / 10
The Bird with the Crystal Plumage
Berto Consalvi
An American writer living in Rome witnesses an attempted murder that is connected to an ongoing killing spree in the city, and conducts his own investigation despite himself and his girlfriend being targeted by the killer.
Feb 27o 19707.2 / 10