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Max Schreck

1879 - 1936

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Friedrich Gustav Maximilian Schreck (6 September 1879 – 20 February 1936), known professionally as Max Schreck, was a German actor, best known for his lead role as the vampire Count Orlok in the film Nosferatu (1922). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Max Schreck has received more than 2,080,898 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Max Schreck is the 930th most popular actor (down from 913th in 2019), the 1,394th most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,373rd in 2019) and the 25th most popular German Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 65.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.44

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Max Schreck ranks 930 out of 13,578. Before him are Anne Wiazemsky, Jack Black, Lee J. Cobb, Vincent D'Onofrio, Jennifer Grey, and Vera Miles. After him are John Turturro, Sebastian Shaw, Kenny Baker, Cesar Romero, Hou Hsiao-hsien, and Jesper Christensen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Max Schreck ranks 50. Before him are Adolf Strauss, Wanda Landowska, Boris Savinkov, Marius Jacob, Paul Poiret, and Ethel Barrymore. After him are Huda Sha'arawi, Bedřich Hrozný, Edward Steichen, Kartini, Max Emmerich, and Hisaichi Terauchi. Among people deceased in 1936, Max Schreck ranks 57. Before him are Alexander Berkman, Carl Stumpf, Kikunae Ikeda, Saitō Makoto, Anna Boch, and Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime. After him are Basil Zaharoff, Gyula Gömbös, Mikhail Tomsky, Takahashi Korekiyo, Mehmet Akif Ersoy, and Martin Lowry.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Max Schreck ranks 1,394 out of 7,253. Before him are Annemarie Schimmel (1922), Fabian von Schlabrendorff (1907), Anne Wiazemsky (1947), Francis Josias, Duke of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld (1697), Friedrich Wilhelm Raiffeisen (1818), and Claudia Schiffer (1970). After him are Christian I, Elector of Saxony (1560), Rudolf Erich Raspe (1736), André Previn (1929), Lothar de Maizière (1940), Walter Kasper (1933), and Georg Wilhelm Steller (1709).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Max Schreck ranks 25. Before him are Erika Mann (1905), Thomas Kretschmann (1962), Til Schweiger (1963), Christiane F. (1962), Diane Kruger (1976), and Anne Wiazemsky (1947). After him are Brigitte Helm (1906), Erdoğan Atalay (1966), Conrad Veidt (1893), Karin Dor (1938), Gottfried John (1942), and Michael Fassbender (1977).

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