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Nils Asther

1897 - 1981

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Nils Anton Alfhild Asther (17 January 1897 – 19 October 1981) was a Swedish actor active in Hollywood from 1926 to the mid-1950s, known as "the male Greta Garbo". Between 1916 and 1963 he appeared in over seventy feature films, sixteen of which were produced in the silent era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nils Asther has received more than 265,944 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Nils Asther is the 4,661st most popular actor (up from 4,852nd in 2019), the 467th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 473rd in 2019) and the 28th most popular Danish Actor.

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  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.71

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Nils Asther ranks 4,661 out of 9,996. Before him are Tauno Palo, Ken Foree, Marin Hinkle, Paprika Steen, John P. Ryan, and Christine Estabrook. After him are Marília Pêra, Keiko Awaji, McLean Stevenson, Paola Pitagora, Chantal Lauby, and Jocelyn Brando.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Nils Asther ranks 218. Before him are Martti Marttelin, Aaro Pajari, Antonio Campolo, Hansa Jivraj Mehta, Ville Pörhölä, and Douglas Hartree. After him are Luis Batlle Berres, Gerhard Lamprecht, Władysław Broniewski, Knudåge Riisager, Adolph Deutsch, and Jackson Scholz. Among people deceased in 1981, Nils Asther ranks 181. Before him are Robert Moses, Malcolm MacDonald, Tadeusz Baird, Donald Wills Douglas Sr., Hermann Pilnik, and Álvaro Cunqueiro. After him are Josef Silný, Delfo Cabrera, Beulah Bondi, Ruby Payne-Scott, Aníbal Ciocca, and Gregory Breit.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Nils Asther ranks 467 out of 893. Before him are Ole Madsen (1934), Johannes Schmidt (1877), Gustav Winckler (1925), Jens Christian Christensen (1856), Tage Reedtz-Thott (1839), and Paprika Steen (1964). After him are Halfdan T. Mahler (1923), Ivan Joseph Martin Osiier (1888), Ernst Schultz (1879), Kim Vilfort (1962), Michael Pedersen Friis (1857), and Pilou Asbæk (1982).

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Among ACTORS In Denmark

Among actors born in Denmark, Nils Asther ranks 28. Before him are Sofie Gråbøl (1968), Bodil Ipsen (1889), Thomas Bo Larsen (1963), Vivi Bach (1939), Ole Ernst (1940), and Paprika Steen (1964). After him are Pilou Asbæk (1982), Holger Juul Hansen (1924), Jens Albinus (1965), Deepika Padukone (1986), Roland Møller (1972), and Claes Bang (1967).

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