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Rolf Hoppe

1930 - 2018

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Rolf Hoppe (6 December 1930 – 14 November 2018) was a prolific German stage, cinema, and television actor, who played in more than 400 films in a career which spanned over six decades. To international audiences Hoppe is perhaps best known for his roles as the General in the Oscar-winning Mephisto (1981) and as the King in the East-German–Czechoslovakian Holiday classic Three Wishes for Cinderella (1973). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rolf Hoppe has received more than 72,081 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Rolf Hoppe is the 2,980th most popular actor (up from 3,003rd in 2019), the 3,632nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,454th in 2019) and the 102nd most popular German Actor.

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  • 51.42

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Rolf Hoppe ranks 2,980 out of 13,578. Before him are Pamela Tiffin, Andrew Robinson, Nick Cassavetes, Gordon Liu, Andréa Parisy, and August Schellenberg. After him are Dick Miller, Akio Ōtsuka, Bo Hopkins, Dominic Purcell, Takehito Koyasu, and Steven Hill.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Rolf Hoppe ranks 292. Before him are Pierre Vidal-Naquet, Gary Snyder, Ernst Tugendhat, Arsenio Iglesias, Kurt Nielsen, and Sigge Parling. After him are Merab Mamardashvili, Chuck Daly, Mohammad Ali Fardin, Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, Clive Revill, and Hédi Baccouche. Among people deceased in 2018, Rolf Hoppe ranks 214. Before him are Nikolai Karachentsov, Billy Herrington, Tommy Lawrence, Robert Kerman, Robby Müller, and Lydia Clarke. After him are Sabahudin Kurt, Stan Mikita, Arie den Hartog, Luis Posada Carriles, Sergey Litvinov, and Juan Bautista Agüero.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Rolf Hoppe ranks 3,632 out of 7,253. Before him are Franz Bäke (1898), Adolf Mayer (1843), Rupert Mayer (1876), Friedrich Sämisch (1896), Sophie, Hereditary Princess of Liechtenstein (1967), and Dieter Herzog (1946). After him are Charles, Prince of Nassau-Usingen (1712), Renate Müller (1906), Leroy Sané (1996), Walther Kadow (1900), Joachim von Kortzfleisch (1890), and Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1826).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Rolf Hoppe ranks 102. Before him are Margit Carstensen (1940), Iris Berben (1950), Ingrid Caven (1938), Ilse Steppat (1917), Michel Auclair (1922), and Sybille Schmitz (1909). After him are Corinna Harfouch (1954), Gustav Knuth (1901), Otto Waalkes (1948), Jean-Marc Barr (1960), Irm Hermann (1942), and Holger Meins (1941).

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Television and Movie Roles

Palmetto
Felix Malroux
After spending two years in prison, Harry Barber is released, bitter and disillusioned. He then gets involved with a simple kidnapping plot which turns out to be more complex than he imagines.
Feb 20o 19985.906 / 10
Three Wishes for Cinderella
King
Popelka, a resourceful and independent young girl, is a servant in her stepmother's house and confides in her closest friend the owl. When she comes across three magical acorns, she's granted a single wish for each one of them.
Nov 16o 19737.6 / 10
Mephisto
Tábornagy
A German stage actor finds unexpected success and mixed blessings in the popularity of his performance in a Faustian play as the Nazis take power in pre-WWII Germany. As his associates and friends flee or are ground under by the Nazi terror, the popularity of his character supercedes his own existence until he finds that his best performance is keeping up appearances for his Nazi patrons.
Feb 11o 19817.202 / 10