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Walter Gotell

1924 - 1997

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Walter Jack Gotell (born Walter Jacques Goettel; 15 March 1924 – 5 May 1997) was a German-British actor. He was well known for his role as General Gogol, head of the KGB, in the Roger Moore era of the James Bond film series as well as having played the role of Morzeny, a villain, in From Russia With Love. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walter Gotell has received more than 717,310 page views. His biography is available in 25 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Walter Gotell is the 1,940th most popular actor (down from 1,360th in 2019), the 2,663rd most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,941st in 2019) and the 58th most popular German Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 720k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 25

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.35

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Walter Gotell ranks 1,940 out of 13,578. Before him are Tallulah Bankhead, Tatum O'Neal, Chris Sarandon, Josh Duhamel, Zoe Saldana, and Diane Ladd. After him are Marika Green, Divine, Gedeon Burkhard, Anne Ramsey, Eduardo Fajardo, and Rubens de Falco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Walter Gotell ranks 156. Before him are Luigi Musso, Motoo Kimura, Daniel Inouye, Zizi Jeanmaire, Franco Cristaldi, and Claude Lefort. After him are Eduardo Fajardo, Ken Tyrrell, Franco Basaglia, Billy Wright, Michel Constantin, and Abderrahmane Youssoufi. Among people deceased in 1997, Walter Gotell ranks 110. Before him are Jean-Dominique Bauby, Laurean Rugambwa, Edward Mulhare, Anatoliy Banishevskiy, Lyman Spitzer, and Peng Zhen. After him are Anatoli Boukreev, Amha Selassie, Ho Feng-Shan, Saw Maung, Harold Robbins, and Luigi Villoresi.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Walter Gotell ranks 2,663 out of 7,253. Before him are Neidhart von Reuental (1180), Nicolas Luckner (1722), Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach (1792), Peter Högl (1897), Ambrosius Holbein (1494), and John Albert I, Duke of Mecklenburg (1525). After him are Hans Freudenthal (1905), Prince Georg Ludwig of Holstein-Gottorp (1719), Alfred Wünnenberg (1891), Gedeon Burkhard (1969), Princess Luise Dorothea of Prussia (1680), and Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel (1811).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Walter Gotell ranks 58. Before him are Heinz Rühmann (1902), Andrzej Seweryn (1946), Helmut Griem (1932), Rosa Albach-Retty (1874), Götz George (1938), and Fritz Wepper (1941). After him are Gedeon Burkhard (1969), Pam Ferris (1948), George Dzundza (1945), Sibel Kekilli (1980), Angela Winkler (1944), and Ralf Moeller (1959).

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