1879 - 1936
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 1,398,752 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Max Schreck is the 916th most popular actor (up from 1,038th in 2019), the 1,373rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,572nd in 2019) and the 20th most popular German Actor.
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Among actors, Max Schreck ranks 916 out of 9,996. Before him are Lee Remick, Matthew Perry, Jennifer Grey, Gary Busey, Kathleen Turner, and Grace Zabriskie. After him are Stewart Granger, David Graf, Olga Knipper, Til Schweiger, Randolph Scott, and Anne Parillaud.
1935 - 1991
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 910
1969 - Present
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 911
1960 - Present
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 912
1944 - Present
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 913
1954 - Present
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 914
1941 - Present
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 915
1879 - 1936
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 916
1913 - 1993
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 917
1950 - 2001
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 918
1868 - 1959
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 919
1963 - Present
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 920
1898 - 1987
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 921
1960 - Present
HPI: 58.62
Rank: 922
Among people born in 1879, Max Schreck ranks 49. Before him are Huda Sha'arawi, Knud Rasmussen, Margaret Sanger, Wanda Landowska, William Beveridge, and Paul Poiret. After him are Edward Steichen, Bedřich Hrozný, Hisaichi Terauchi, Adolf Strauss, Alfred Korzybski, and Nikolai Medtner. Among people deceased in 1936, Max Schreck ranks 52. Before him are Wilhelm Gustloff, José Sanjurjo, Infante Alfonso Carlos, Duke of San Jaime, Bertha Pappenheim, Duan Qirui, and Marcel Grossmann. After him are Kikunae Ikeda, Basil Zaharoff, Carl Stumpf, Mikhail Tomsky, Edward Bach, and Mehmet Akif Ersoy.
1879 - 1947
HPI: 59.75
Rank: 43
1879 - 1933
HPI: 59.51
Rank: 44
1879 - 1966
HPI: 59.50
Rank: 45
1879 - 1959
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 46
1879 - 1963
HPI: 59.11
Rank: 47
1879 - 1944
HPI: 58.97
Rank: 48
1879 - 1936
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 49
1879 - 1973
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 50
1879 - 1952
HPI: 58.57
Rank: 51
1879 - 1946
HPI: 58.54
Rank: 52
1879 - 1973
HPI: 58.10
Rank: 53
1879 - 1950
HPI: 57.58
Rank: 54
1879 - 1951
HPI: 57.14
Rank: 55
1895 - 1936
HPI: 60.37
Rank: 46
1872 - 1936
HPI: 60.16
Rank: 47
1849 - 1936
HPI: 60.08
Rank: 48
1859 - 1936
HPI: 59.81
Rank: 49
1865 - 1936
HPI: 59.42
Rank: 50
1878 - 1936
HPI: 59.35
Rank: 51
1879 - 1936
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 52
1864 - 1936
HPI: 58.56
Rank: 53
1849 - 1936
HPI: 58.32
Rank: 54
1848 - 1936
HPI: 58.13
Rank: 55
1880 - 1936
HPI: 57.87
Rank: 56
1886 - 1936
HPI: 57.76
Rank: 57
1873 - 1936
HPI: 57.63
Rank: 58
Among people born in Germany, Max Schreck ranks 1,373 out of 6,142. Before him are William I, Elector of Hesse (1743), Friedrich Hund (1896), Maria Josepha Amalia of Saxony (1803), Conrad II of Italy (1074), Siegfried Kracauer (1889), and Prince Adalbert of Prussia (1884). After him are Duchess Helene of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1814), Hans Driesch (1867), John George IV, Elector of Saxony (1668), Til Schweiger (1963), Axel Honneth (1949), and Hartmann von Aue (1160).
1743 - 1821
HPI: 58.70
Rank: 1,367
1896 - 1997
HPI: 58.69
Rank: 1,368
1803 - 1829
HPI: 58.68
Rank: 1,369
1074 - 1101
HPI: 58.67
Rank: 1,370
1889 - 1966
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,371
1884 - 1948
HPI: 58.66
Rank: 1,372
1879 - 1936
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 1,373
1814 - 1858
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 1,374
1867 - 1941
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 1,375
1668 - 1694
HPI: 58.64
Rank: 1,376
1963 - Present
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 1,377
1949 - Present
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 1,378
1160 - 1210
HPI: 58.60
Rank: 1,379
Among actors born in Germany, Max Schreck ranks 20. Before him are Horst Tappert (1923), Lale Andersen (1905), Karin Schubert (1944), Gottfried John (1942), Brigitte Helm (1906), and Hildegard Knef (1925). After him are Til Schweiger (1963), Lilli Palmer (1914), Karin Dor (1938), Erika Mann (1905), Elke Sommer (1940), and Anne Wiazemsky (1947).
1923 - 2008
HPI: 60.55
Rank: 14
1905 - 1972
HPI: 60.40
Rank: 15
1944 - Present
HPI: 59.38
Rank: 16
1942 - 2014
HPI: 59.36
Rank: 17
1906 - 1996
HPI: 58.95
Rank: 18
1925 - 2002
HPI: 58.91
Rank: 19
1879 - 1936
HPI: 58.65
Rank: 20
1963 - Present
HPI: 58.63
Rank: 21
1914 - 1986
HPI: 58.51
Rank: 22
1938 - 2017
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 23
1905 - 1969
HPI: 58.30
Rank: 24
1940 - Present
HPI: 58.27
Rank: 25
1947 - 2017
HPI: 58.21
Rank: 26