ACTOR

Robert Z'Dar

1950 - 2015

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Robert James Zdarsky (June 3, 1950 – March 30, 2015), better known by his stage name Robert Z'Dar, was an American character actor and film producer, best known for his role as officer Matt Cordell in the cult horror film Maniac Cop (1988) and its two sequels, as well as appearances in Tango & Cash and Samurai Cop. Z'Dar worked mainly in low-budget B movies and direct-to-video features, but occasionally in mainstream Hollywood films and television. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Robert Z'Dar has received more than 1,819,820 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Z'Dar is the 3,088th most popular actor (up from 3,803rd in 2019), the 4,677th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,794th in 2019) and the 1,394th most popular American Actor.

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  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Robert Z'Dar ranks 3,088 out of 13,578. Before him are Han Hyo-joo, Otto Waalkes, Jonathan Ke Quan, W. C. Fields, Nicole Courcel, and Frédéric Diefenthal. After him are Carey Lowell, Claude Dauphin, Clive Revill, Toshio Furukawa, Jean-Marc Barr, and Estelle Harris.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Robert Z'Dar ranks 242. Before him are Josiane Balasko, Lino Červar, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Rick Perry, Kenny Ortega, and Marián Masný. After him are Seyla Benhabib, Damo Suzuki, Rosi Mittermaier, Luis Donaldo Colosio, Jerry Zucker, and Christine Lahti. Among people deceased in 2015, Robert Z'Dar ranks 201. Before him are Frances Oldham Kelsey, Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Beau Biden, Daevid Allen, Charb, and Ellsworth Kelly. After him are Ján Chryzostom Korec, Ants Antson, Oʻtkir Sultonov, Nicolae Rainea, Gheorghe Gruia, and Tadeusz Konwicki.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Robert Z'Dar ranks 4,677 out of 20,380. Before him are Lillian Hellman (1905), Winthrop Rockefeller (1912), Scott Travis (1961), Amy Lee (1981), John Ashbery (1927), and Michael Kors (1959). After him are Ryan Murphy (1965), Charles Best (1899), Carey Lowell (1961), Otto Warmbier (1994), Walter Bedell Smith (1895), and Richard Yates (1926).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Robert Z'Dar ranks 1,394. Before him are Jorja Fox (1968), Milo Ventimiglia (1977), Misha Collins (1974), Rachel Ticotin (1958), Steve Kanaly (1946), and W. C. Fields (1880). After him are Carey Lowell (1961), Estelle Harris (1928), Michael Shannon (1974), Peter Jacobson (1965), Esai Morales (1962), and Frankie Faison (1949).

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Television and Movie Roles

Tango & Cash
Face
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are two successful narcotics detectives who can't stand each other. Crime lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income they have caused him, plots an elaborate revenge against them.
Dec 22nd 19896.5 / 10
Maniac Cop
Matt Cordell
Innocent people are brutally killed on the streets of New York by a uniformed police officer. A young cop, Jack Forrest, finds himself marked as the chief suspect after his wife is murdered.
May 13th 19886.1 / 10
Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
Matt Cordell
When Kate Sullivan storms a hostage situation, the whole incident is captured on tape by an unscrupulous media crew who edit the footage to show her killing a helpless victim. "Maniac Cop" takes it upon himself to exact revenge upon those who smeared her name.
Dec 10th 19925.2 / 10