ACTOR

Ossi Oswalda

1897 - 1947

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Ossi Oswalda (born Oswalda Amalie Anna Stäglich, 2 February 1898 – 7 March 1947) was a German actress, who mostly appeared in silent films, many of which were early films of German filmmaker Ernst Lubitsch. Her characters were often eccentric, spoiled, and child-like. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ossi Oswalda has received more than 50,851 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Ossi Oswalda is the 4,825th most popular actor (up from 5,713th in 2019), the 4,697th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,531st in 2019) and the 172nd most popular German Actor.

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.92

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  • 2.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ossi Oswalda ranks 4,825 out of 13,578. Before her are David A. R. White, Jim Hutton, Gregory Walcott, Junko Takeuchi, Bill Skarsgård, and Barbara Rush. After her are Albert Préjean, Nikolai Gubenko, Ally Walker, Sharlto Copley, Laura San Giacomo, and Peter Gilmore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Ossi Oswalda ranks 243. Before her are Pedro Vallana, Louis Wirth, Adolph Deutsch, Knudåge Riisager, Mikhail Yefremov, and Blind Willie Johnson. After her are Oskar Olsen, Lya Mara, Antonio Campolo, Jean Cassou, Ulises Poirier, and Ferruccio Novo. Among people deceased in 1947, Ossi Oswalda ranks 167. Before her are Anna von Mildenburg, R. B. Bennett, Georg Schnéevoigt, Frederick Russell Burnham, José Pardo y Barreda, and Albert Bruce Jackson. After her are Edwin Hedley, Riichi Yokomitsu, Frank Heller, Ellsworth Huntington, August Blom, and Nikolai Chebotaryov.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ossi Oswalda ranks 4,697 out of 7,253. Before her are Karl Moritz Schumann (1851), Christa Stubnick (1933), Wolf Erlbruch (1948), Norbert Nigbur (1948), Theodore Thomas (1835), and Gerd Wessig (1959). After her are Jürgen Möllemann (1945), Theodor Ludwig Wilhelm von Bischoff (1807), Friedrich Christoph Dahlmann (1785), Manfred Kokot (1948), Peter Gilmore (1931), and Claudia Roth (1955).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Ossi Oswalda ranks 172. Before her are Nina Hoss (1975), Karl Dall (1941), Juliane Köhler (1965), Gisela Uhlen (1919), Jeri Ryan (1968), and Reinhold Schünzel (1886). After her are Peter Gilmore (1931), Ulrich Matthes (1959), LeVar Burton (1957), André Hennicke (1958), Hanns Kräly (1884), and Werner Peters (1918).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Doll
Ossi / The Doll
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
Dec 5th 19197.4 / 10
I Don't Want to Be a Man
Ossi
A teenage tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun. She quickly discovers that being the opposite sex isn’t as easy as she had hoped for. What ensues is a gender-bending comedy decades ahead of its time.
Oct 1st 19186.4 / 10
The Oyster Princess
Ossi, his daughter
A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must be seen to be believed.
Jun 26th 19196.8 / 10