ACTOR

Mischa Auer

1905 - 1967

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Mischa Auer (born Mikhail Semyonovich Unkovsky, Russian: Михаил Семёнович Унковский; 17 November 1905 – 5 March 1967) was a Russian-American actor who moved to Hollywood in the late 1920s. He first appeared in film in 1928. Auer had a long career playing in many of the era's best known films. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1936 for his performance in the screwball comedy My Man Godfrey, which led to further zany comedy roles. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Mischa Auer is the 3,797th most popular actor (up from 4,333rd in 2019), the 1,503rd most popular biography from Russia (up from 1,738th in 2019) and the 63rd most popular Russian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mischa Auer ranks 3,797 out of 13,578Before him are John Vernon, Diana Bracho, Shammi Kapoor, Felicia Farr, Brian Blessed, and Lauren Cohan. After him are Leonard Whiting, Elizabeth Wilson, Raimu, Donovan Scott, Dalila Di Lazzaro, and Danièle Delorme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Mischa Auer ranks 235Before him are Pote Sarasin, Fulvio Bernardini, Irmgard Keun, Franco Riccardi, Eivar Widlund, and Fred Alderman. After him are Lev Atamanov, Floyd Gottfredson, Juan O'Gorman, Vicente Trueba, José Tapia, and Hadiya Davletshina. Among people deceased in 1967, Mischa Auer ranks 179Before him are Robert Henry Lawrence Jr., Antonio Moreno, Antonio Riberi, Percy Hodge, Erick-Oskar Hansen, and Väinö Kokkinen. After him are Gigi Meroni, Eugénie Cotton, Bert Lahr, Franz Babinger, Arthur Ransome, and Óscar Diego Gestido.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mischa Auer ranks 1,503 out of 3,761Before him are Boris Parygin (1930), Jacob Bruce (1669), Tetyana Yablonska (1917), Vasily Golitsyn (1643), Vyacheslav Zaytsev (1952), and Karen Khachaturian (1920). After him are Alexander Chayanov (1888), Esfir Shub (1894), Gamzat-bek (1789), Mikhail Khorobrit (1229), Vladimir Bonch-Bruyevich (1873), and Alexander Serov (1820).

Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Mischa Auer ranks 63Before him are Vladimir Zeldin (1915), Nikolai Karachentsov (1944), Aleksandr Abdulov (1953), Viktor Sukhorukov (1951), Valentin Gaft (1935), and Andrey Makarevich (1953). After him are Mikhail Shchepkin (1788), Vera Glagoleva (1956), Stanislav Lyubshin (1933), Vladimir Sokoloff (1889), Yevgeny Morgunov (1927), and Vitaly Solomin (1941).