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Werner Klemperer

1920 - 2000

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Werner Klemperer (March 22, 1920 – December 6, 2000) was an American actor. He was known for playing Colonel Wilhelm Klink on the CBS television sitcom Hogan's Heroes, for which he twice won the award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series at the Primetime Emmy Awards in 1968 and 1969. After serving in the United States Army during World War II, he began performing on the Broadway stage in 1947. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Werner Klemperer has received more than 2,900,934 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Werner Klemperer is the 3,173rd most popular actor (up from 3,180th in 2019), the 3,554th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,411th in 2019) and the 98th most popular German Actor.

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  • 49.50

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  • 20

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  • 2.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Werner Klemperer ranks 3,173 out of 9,996Before him are Vija Artmane, Moe Howard, Sam Wanamaker, David Patrick Kelly, Caroline Munro, and Brad Harris. After him are Jim Hutton, Patsy Kensit, Lulu, Art Carney, Yevgeny Morgunov, and Madeleine Carroll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Werner Klemperer ranks 221Before him are Tony Randall, Stanko Todorov, Bengt Ekerot, Andrew V. McLaglen, Chatichai Choonhavan, and Danilo Alvim. After him are Gerda Lerner, Eiji Okada, Nilde Iotti, Musa Anter, Anne-Cath. Vestly, and Ronald Speirs. Among people deceased in 2000, Werner Klemperer ranks 154Before him are Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Ansumane Mané, Carmen Martín Gaite, Spyros Markezinis, Carlos Guastavino, and Jacqueline Auriol. After him are Anne Hébert, Antonio Buero Vallejo, Gus Hall, Liane Haid, Rinaldo Martino, and Gustaw Herling-Grudziński.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Werner Klemperer ranks 3,554 out of 6,142Before him are Picander (1700), Princess Augusta of Württemberg (1826), Alwin Berger (1871), Hugo von Mohl (1805), Gustav Karl Wilhelm Hermann Karsten (1817), and Friedrich Gernsheim (1839). After him are Philibert, Margrave of Baden-Baden (1536), Johann Leopold, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1906), Sophie Augusta of Holstein-Gottorp (1630), Ken Adam (1921), Anna Maria of Mecklenburg-Schwerin (1627), and Jürgen Croy (1946).

Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Werner Klemperer ranks 98Before him are Konrad Ernst Ackermann (1712), Hans Christian Blech (1915), Gustav Knuth (1901), Rolf Hoppe (1930), Holger Meins (1941), and Hannelore Elsner (1942). After him are Manfred Krug (1937), Christian Berkel (1957), Corinna Harfouch (1954), Otto Waalkes (1948), Martina Gedeck (1961), and Selma Ergeç (1978).

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