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Heinz Rühmann

1902 - 1994

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Heinrich Wilhelm "Heinz" Rühmann (German: [haɪnts ˈʁyːman] ; 7 March 1902 – 3 October 1994) was a German film actor who appeared in over 100 films between 1926 and 1993. He is one of the most famous and popular German actors of the 20th century, and is considered a German film legend. Rühmann is best known for playing the part of a comic ordinary citizen in film comedies such as Three from the Filling Station and The Punch Bowl. During his later years, he was also a respected character actor in films such as The Captain from Köpenick and It Happened in Broad Daylight. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Heinz Rühmann is the 1,830th most popular actor (down from 1,743rd in 2019), the 2,492nd most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,416th in 2019) and the 46th most popular German Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Heinz Rühmann ranks 1,830 out of 13,578Before him are Patricia Arquette, Jensen Ackles, Lil Dagover, Dan Hedaya, Aleksandër Moisiu, and Soon-Tek Oh. After him are Mercedes McCambridge, Savitri, Wolf Albach-Retty, Earl Boen, Zbigniew Cybulski, and Bob Hastings.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Heinz Rühmann ranks 120Before him are Leopold Figl, Josep Lluís Sert, Mortimer J. Adler, Ralph Richardson, Regina Jonas, and Peng Zhen. After him are Vladimír Clementis, Karl Menger, Moderato Wisintainer, Jan Tschichold, Alexander Mach, and Thelma Ritter. Among people deceased in 1994, Heinz Rühmann ranks 118Before him are Kevin Carter, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Mario Brega, Giovanni Spadolini, Antoine Pinay, and Dick Sargent. After him are Aleksandar Petrović, Donald Judd, Baruch Goldstein, Juan Alonso, Stanisław Maczek, and Haim Bar-Lev.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Heinz Rühmann ranks 2,493 out of 7,253Before him are Princess Elisabeth of Saxe-Altenburg (1865), Burkhard Christoph von Münnich (1683), Gershon Kingsley (1922), Johann Friedrich Wilhelm Herbst (1743), Walther Meissner (1882), and Karl Lamprecht (1856). After him are Ernest Frederick II, Duke of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1707), Franz Six (1909), Casimir, Margrave of Brandenburg-Kulmbach (1481), Alfred Pfaff (1926), Joachim Ernst, Margrave of Brandenburg-Ansbach (1583), and Anna Schäffer (1882).

Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Heinz Rühmann ranks 46Before him are Ulrich Mühe (1953), Erdoğan Atalay (1966), Marianne Koch (1931), Fritz Wepper (1941), Martin Lawrence (1965), and George Dzundza (1945). After him are Marianne Sägebrecht (1945), Werner Krauss (1884), Götz George (1938), Walter Gotell (1924), Henny Porten (1890), and Andrzej Seweryn (1946).