ACTOR

Ulrich Mühe

1953 - 2007

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Friedrich Hans Ulrich Mühe (German pronunciation: [ˈʊlʁɪç ˈmyːə] ; 20 June 1953 – 22 July 2007) was a German film, television and theatre actor. He played the role of Hauptmann (Captain) Gerd Wiesler in the Oscar-winning film Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others, 2006), for which he received the gold award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role, at the Deutscher Filmpreis (German Film Awards); and the Best Actor Award at the 2006 European Film Awards. After leaving school, Mühe was employed as a construction worker and a border guard at the Berlin Wall. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ulrich Mühe has received more than 614,037 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Ulrich Mühe is the 1,415th most popular actor (up from 1,597th in 2019), the 2,047th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,210th in 2019) and the 41st most popular German Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 610k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.52

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ulrich Mühes by language

Over the past year Ulrich Mühe has had the most page views in the with 311,624 views, followed by English (76,054), and French (22,125). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Volapük (186.45%), Latin (62.70%), and French (45.26%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ulrich Mühe ranks 1,415 out of 13,578. Before him are Najwa Nimri, Shadia, DeForest Kelley, Martin Freeman, Joss Ackland, and Will Ferrell. After him are Claire Bloom, Ken Takakura, Lil Dagover, Craig T. Nelson, Jon Favreau, and Joan Bennett.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1953, Ulrich Mühe ranks 100. Before him are Ivo Sanader, William E. Moerner, Manfred Kaltz, Jerome Powell, Teresa Orlowski, and Danny Elfman. After him are Jeb Bush, Aleksandr Akimov, Nan Goldin, Rick Moranis, James Remar, and David Hurley. Among people deceased in 2007, Ulrich Mühe ranks 96. Before him are Hrant Dink, Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, Ralph Asher Alpher, Viliam Schrojf, Dashrath Manjhi, and Gordon Scott. After him are Pierre Messmer, Raymond Barre, José Luis de Vilallonga, 9th Marquess of Castellbell, Al Oerter, Edward Yang, and David Lane.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Ulrich Mühe ranks 2,047 out of 7,253. Before him are Princess Marie of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1857), Philip, Elector Palatine (1448), Ludwig Crüwell (1892), Siegfried Marcus (1831), Curt Sachs (1881), and Frederick August I, Duke of Oldenburg (1711). After him are Ralf Hütter (1946), Frederick I, Elector Palatine (1425), Ernest Augustus I, Duke of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1688), George Müller (1805), Veit Harlan (1899), and Prince Karl Anton August of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1727).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Ulrich Mühe ranks 41. Before him are Elke Sommer (1940), Uta Hagen (1919), Kurt Gerron (1897), Ernst Busch (1900), Barbara Sukowa (1950), and Marianne Koch (1931). After him are Loriot (1923), Maria Riva (1924), Rachel Félix (1821), William Dieterle (1893), Werner Krauss (1884), and Marianne Sägebrecht (1945).

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Television and Movie Roles

Funny Games
Georg
Two psychotic young men take a mother, father, and son hostage in their vacation cabin and force them to play sadistic "games" with one another for their own amusement.
Sep 11o 19977.328 / 10
The Lives of Others
Gerd Wiesler
In 1984 East Berlin, an agent of the secret police, conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover, finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.
Mar 23o 20068.028 / 10
Amen.
SS-Arzt
Kurt Gerstein—a member of the Institute for Hygiene of the Waffen-SS—is horrified by what he sees in the death camps. he is then shocked to learn that the process he used to purify water for his troops by using Zyklon-B, is now used to kill people in gas chambers.
Feb 27o 20026.992 / 10