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Paul Leni

1885 - 1929

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Paul Leni (born Paul Josef Levi; 8 July 1885 – 2 September 1929) was a German filmmaker and a key figure in German Expressionism, making Hintertreppe (1921) and Waxworks (1924) in Germany, and The Cat and the Canary (1927), The Chinese Parrot (1927), The Man Who Laughs (1928), and The Last Warning (1928) in the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Leni has received more than 120,218 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Paul Leni is the 12,726th most popular politician (down from 10,811th in 2019), the 3,910th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,176th in 2019) and the 1,076th most popular German Politician.

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  • 2.41

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Among POLITICIANS

Among politicians, Paul Leni ranks 12,726 out of 19,576Before him are Edward Fortunatus, Hunter Biden, Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg, Flavia Maxima Constantia, Brent Scowcroft, and Ranulf I of Aquitaine. After him are Piankh, Flavia Titiana, Kalpana Datta, Ibrahim Mohamed Solih, Antonio Nariño, and Francisco Pascual Obama Asue.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Paul Leni ranks 156Before him are Egon Wellesz, Zhou Zuoren, Sophia Parnok, Louise Bryant, Nadezhda Udaltsova, and Richmond K. Turner. After him are Mae Murray, Giovanni Martinelli, Emmy Hennings, Jaafar Al-Askari, Felicjan Sławoj Składkowski, and Charles Daniels. Among people deceased in 1929, Paul Leni ranks 92Before him are Otto Binswanger, Ernest Mason Satow, Julio Antonio Mella, Basil III of Constantinople, Cornelis Lely, and Pascal Dagnan-Bouveret. After him are Sadhu Sundar Singh, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Heinrich Zille, Arno Holz, Lillie Langtry, and Léon Delacroix.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Paul Leni ranks 3,910 out of 7,253Before him are Eduard August von Regel (1815), Jaki Liebezeit (1938), Christian Albrecht Jensen (1792), Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg (1656), Franz Roth (1946), and Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897). After him are Blasius Merrem (1761), Ian Ashley (1947), August Böckh (1785), Udo Voigt (1952), Grete Stern (1904), and Friederike Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt (1698).

Among POLITICIANS In Germany

Among politicians born in Germany, Paul Leni ranks 1,076Before him are Princess Marie Anne of Saxe-Altenburg (1864), Ernest Frederick I, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1681), Maximilian von Montgelas (1759), Alice Weidel (1979), Friedrich Wilhelm III, Duke of Saxe-Altenburg (1657), and Johanna Magdalena of Saxe-Altenburg (1656). After him are Udo Voigt (1952), Martin Mutschmann (1879), Leopold II, Prince of Lippe (1796), Duke Eugen of Württemberg (1846), Prince August of Württemberg (1813), and Otto Graf Lambsdorff (1926).