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Curd Jürgens

1915 - 1982

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Curd Gustav Andreas Gottlieb Franz Jürgens (13 December 1915 – 18 June 1982) was a German-Austrian stage and film actor. He was usually billed in English-speaking films as Curt Jurgens. He was well known for playing Ernst Udet in Des Teufels General. His English-language roles include James Bond villain Karl Stromberg in The Spy Who Loved Me (1977), Éric Carradine in And God Created Woman (1956), and Professor Immanuel Rath in The Blue Angel (1959). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Curd Jürgens is the 427th most popular actor (down from 362nd in 2019), the 695th most popular biography from Germany (down from 609th in 2019) and the 4th most popular German Actor.

Curd Jürgens is most famous for his role as Major Heinrich Strasser in the 1965 James Bond film "Thunderball."

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Curd Jürgens ranks 427 out of 13,578. Before him are Chris Hemsworth, George Kennedy, Lon Chaney Jr., Oliver Reed, Armin Mueller-Stahl, and Bibi Andersson. After him are Nathalie Delon, Liam Cunningham, Marina Vlady, Lola Montez, William Hurt, and Mylène Demongeot.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1915, Curd Jürgens ranks 33. Before him are Joachim Peiper, Joseph P. Kennedy Jr., Jerome Bruner, Stanley Matthews, Fred Hoyle, and Robert Hofstadter. After him are Les Paul, Henry Taube, Geraldine of Albania, Paul Tibbets, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, and Albert O. Hirschman. Among people deceased in 1982, Curd Jürgens ranks 35. Before him are Georges Perec, Hugh Everett III, Mikhail Suslov, Władysław Gomułka, Jacques Tati, and C. R. Swart. After him are Walter Hallstein, Cevdet Sunay, Hans Selye, Ivan Bagramyan, Jiro Horikoshi, and Lee Strasberg.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Curd Jürgens ranks 695 out of 7,253. Before him are Simon Marius (1573), Arno Breker (1900), Hans Holbein the Elder (1465), Otto Günsche (1917), Widukind (755), and George William, Elector of Brandenburg (1595). After him are Rudi Völler (1960), Gerhard Herzberg (1904), John Frederick I, Elector of Saxony (1503), Erich Mielke (1907), Johannes Peter Müller (1801), and Robert Huber (1937).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Curd Jürgens ranks 4. Before him are Marlene Dietrich (1901), Bruce Willis (1955), and Simone Signoret (1921). After him are Magda Schneider (1909), Jürgen Prochnow (1941), Emmy Göring (1893), Hardy Krüger (1928), Udo Kier (1944), Nastassja Kinski (1961), Luise Rainer (1910), and Karlheinz Böhm (1928).

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