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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 1,692,047 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Robert Z'Dar is the 3,085th 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.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Robert Z'Dars by language

Over the past year Robert Z'Dar has had the most page views in the with 233,476 views, followed by Spanish (27,065), and German (17,822). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Afrikaans (126.34%), Egyptian Arabic (107.26%), and Polish (62.55%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Robert Z'Dar ranks 3,085 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

Maniac Cop 3: Badge of Silence
Matt Cordell
A female cop is gunned down and wrongly accused of using excessive force in a hostage rescue attempt. Maniac cop returns from the dead once more to seek revenge, destroying everything and anyone that stands in his way.
Feb 1o 19935.195 / 10
Maniac Cop
Matt Cordell
In New York, people are slain and strangled to death brutally on the open street. All witnesses agree that the murderer was in a cop's uniform. Soon the police search and find a suspect in its own ranks: Jack Forrest, suspected of murdering his own wife and the rest of the unfortunate individuals to die by the Maniac Cop’s reign of terror. To prove his innocence, he investigates the case with his partner, Theresa Mallory.
May 13o 19886.114 / 10
Tango & Cash
Face
Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon on the scene of the crime, the two have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret.
Dec 22o 19896.438 / 10