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Willi Forst

1903 - 1980

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Willi Forst, born Wilhelm Anton Frohs (7 April 1903 – 11 August 1980) was an Austrian actor, screenwriter, film director, film producer and singer. As a debonair actor he was a darling of the German-speaking film audiences, as a director, one of the most significant makers of the Viennese period musical melodramas and comedies of the 1930s known as Wiener Filme. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Willi Forst is the 4,869th most popular actor (down from 4,453rd in 2019), the 907th most popular biography from Austria (down from 852nd in 2019) and the 44th most popular Austrian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Willi Forst ranks 4,869 out of 13,578. Before him are Peggy Wood, Julia Stiles, Joan Shawlee, Marin Hinkle, Madeleine Robinson, and Marshall Manesh. After him are Alexandra Hedison, Ludivine Sagnier, Matthew Labyorteaux, Moritz Bleibtreu, Jean Stapleton, and Francesco Quinn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Willi Forst ranks 273. Before him are Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay, Georg Gehring, Walter Weiler, Jeanette MacDonald, Suat Hayri Ürgüplü, and Wilfrid Hyde-White. After him are Hermann Volk, Léon-Étienne Duval, Tomoji Abe, María Teresa León, Billie Dove, and Lilly Scholz. Among people deceased in 1980, Willi Forst ranks 232. Before him are Héctor Socorro, Jadwiga Jędrzejowska, Anna Jantar, László Szollás, Isabel Briggs Myers, and Uttam Kumar. After him are Nils Skoglund, Marin Preda, Adolph Deutsch, Nikos Xilouris, Joseph Banks Rhine, and James Smith McDonnell.

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In Austria

Among people born in Austria, Willi Forst ranks 907 out of 1,424. Before him are Heinrich Messner (1939), Kiki Kogelnik (1935), Paul Halla (1931), Julius Lenhart (1875), Dieter Quester (1939), and Peter Platzer (1910). After him are Anna von Mildenburg (1872), Max Bulla (1905), Károly Kós (1883), Otto Wahle (1879), Heinz-Christian Strache (1969), and Johann Nepomuk David (1895).

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Among ACTORS In Austria

Among actors born in Austria, Willi Forst ranks 44. Before him are Mia May (1884), Ferdinand Marian (1902), Heinz Weixelbraun (1963), Hans Moser (1880), Peter Simonischek (1946), and La Jana (1905). After him are Eva Rueber-Staier (1951), O. W. Fischer (1915), Alexander Pschill (1970), Anton Walbrook (1896), Dietmar Schönherr (1926), and Bibi Besch (1942).

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