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Inge Keller

1923 - 2017

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Inge Keller (15 December 1923 – 6 February 2017) was a German stage and film actress whose career on stage and screen spanned seventy years. She was one of the most prominent performers in the former German Democratic Republic. Thomas Langhoff described her as "perhaps the most famous actress of the German Democratic Republic—a star." Deutschlandradio Kultur reporter Dieter Kranz called her "a theater legend". Internationally, Keller was known for her portrayal of the older Lilly Wust in the Golden Globe nominated Aimée & Jaguar. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2024). Inge Keller is the 6,090th most popular actor (up from 6,410th in 2024), the 5,223rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 5,300th in 2019) and the 199th most popular German Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Inge Keller ranks 6,090 out of 13,578Before her are Marguerite Clark, Junko Takeuchi, Barry Foster, Ray Park, Daniel Henney, and Hu Die. After her are Bill Robinson, Jessalyn Gilsig, Lee Jung-eun, Patricia Bredin, Linus Roache, and Roy Kinnear.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Inge Keller ranks 401Before her are Liviu Ciulei, Augusto Magli, Avram Davidson, Yevgeny Vesnik, Raoul Bott, and Willem Slijkhuis. After her are Tom M. Apostol, Haydée Santamaría, Eric Sykes, Ron Flockhart, Antonio Siddi, and Leonid Shamkovich. Among people deceased in 2017, Inge Keller ranks 479Before her are Ruth Perry, Kjell Grede, Bobby Heenan, June Foray, Raúl Córdoba, and Julia Hartwig. After her are Hiromi Tsuru, John Nicholson, August Ames, Margit Schumann, Valery Bolotov, and Gunnar Birkerts.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Inge Keller ranks 5,226 out of 7,253Before her are Erwin Strittmatter (1912), Hans Theilig (1914), Horst Faas (1933), Henriette Reker (1956), Georg Thoma (1937), and Johannes Joachim Degenhardt (1926). After her are Dieter Schubert (1943), Thomas Köhler (1940), Hans-Jürgen Bäumler (1942), Heinz Hornig (1937), Klaus Siebert (1955), and Bernd Dürnberger (1953).

Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Inge Keller ranks 199Before her are Heinrich Schroth (1871), Carl Ebert (1887), Hanns Kräly (1884), Matthias Schweighöfer (1981), Dieter Borsche (1909), and Gisela May (1924). After her are Gustav von Seyffertitz (1862), Allison Mack (1982), Lara Wendel (1965), Hans Deppe (1897), Eugen Burg (1871), and Walter Giller (1927).