ACTOR

Mischa Auer

1905 - 1967

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Mischa Auer (born Mikhail Semyonovich Unkovsky, Russian: Михаил Семёнович Унковский; 17 November 1905 – 5 March 1967) was a Russian-born American actor who moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s. He first appeared in film in 1928. Auer had a long career playing in many of the era's best known films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mischa Auer has received more than 320,463 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Mischa Auer is the 4,336th most popular actor (down from 4,216th in 2019), the 1,738th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,626th in 2019) and the 93rd most popular Russian Actor.

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.28

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  • 3.26

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mischa Auer ranks 4,336 out of 13,578. Before him are Connie Britton, Susan Clark, Alan Ritchson, Nita Naldi, Jimmy Durante, and Michael Lerner. After him are Leticia Calderón, Freddie Bartholomew, Patrick Malahide, Jan Nowicki, Priscilla Lane, and Susan George.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Mischa Auer ranks 255. Before him are Juan Hilario Marrero, Hendrik Wade Bode, Georges Grignard, Stanisław Mazur, Michael Tippett, and Lev Schnirelmann. After him are Vera Panova, Emerich Vogl, La Jana, Boris Ponomarev, Franco Albini, and Fausto dos Santos. Among people deceased in 1967, Mischa Auer ranks 187. Before him are Sig Ruman, Reginald Punnett, Ramón Zabalo, Fritz Schäffer, Georges Berger, and Percy Hodge. After him are Gerhard Ritter, Stanley Morison, Fausto Acke, Angela Piskernik, Juan Luque de Serrallonga, and Marcello Bertinetti.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mischa Auer ranks 1,738 out of 3,761. Before him are Alexander Fersman (1883), Nikolai Tikhonov (1896), Vladimir Nazlymov (1945), Viktor Zhdanovich (1938), Nikolay Burdenko (1876), and Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929). After him are Sergey Obraztsov (1901), Leonid Sobolev (1844), Vera Panova (1905), Boris Parygin (1930), Sergei Solovyov (1944), and Mikhail Kozakov (1934).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Mischa Auer ranks 93. Before him are Iya Savvina (1936), Valeri Zolotukhin (1941), Marina Ladynina (1908), Irina Alfyorova (1951), Andrei Smirnov (1941), and Oleg Anofriyev (1930). After him are Semyon Farada (1933), Lev Durov (1931), Maria Andreyeva (1868), Rostislav Plyatt (1908), Tatyana Vasilyeva (1947), and Yekaterina Vasilyeva (1945).

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Television and Movie Roles

You Can't Take It with You
Boris Kolenkhov
Alice, the only relatively normal member of the eccentric Sycamore family, falls in love with Tony Kirby, but his wealthy banker father and snobbish mother strongly disapprove of the match. When the Kirbys are invited to dinner to become better acquainted with their future in-laws, things don't turn out the way Alice had hoped.
Sep 1st 19387.5 / 10
And Then There Were None
Nikita "Nikki" Starloff
Ten strangers are summoned to a remote island and while they are waiting for the mysterious host to appear, a recording levels serious accusations at each of the guests. Soon they start being murdered, one by one. As the survivors try to keep their wits, they reach a disturbing conclusion: one of them must be the killer.
Oct 31st 19457 / 10
Destry Rides Again
Boris
Tom Destry, son of a legendary frontier peacekeeper, doesn’t believe in gunplay. Thus he becomes the object of widespread ridicule when he rides into the wide-open town of Bottleneck, the personal fiefdom of the crooked Kent.
Nov 30th 19397.151 / 10