# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/norbert-grupe
# Generated: 2026-08-13T11:16:54.209Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/norbert-grupe"
name: "Norbert Grupe"
slug: "norbert-grupe"
description: "Norbert Grupe, better known outside Germany by his stage name Wilhelm von Homburg, was a German boxer, actor, and professional wrestler known for his villainous supporting roles in various high-profile films of the 1980s and 1990s, including Vigo the Carpathian in Ghostbusters II (1989), the henchman James in Die Hard (1988), and Souteneur in Werner Herzog's Stroszek (1977)."
tagline: "German boxer and actor (1940-2004)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/5/56/Wilhelm_Von_Homburg.jpg/330px-Wilhelm_Von_Homburg.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Actors"
  slug: "actors"
profileType:
  name: "Actor"
  slug: "actor"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1940-08-25"
deathDate: "2004-03-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           54.21
  momentum:             3.762842983198356
  historical:           14.409896
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0902455/"
    handle:    "nm0902455"
sources:
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norbert_Grupe"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_von_Homburg"
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    title: "ویلهلم فون هامبورگ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wilhelm von Homburg"
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    title: "Wilhelm von Homburg"
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  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9C%8C%ED%97%B4_%EB%B3%B8_%ED%99%88%EB%B2%84%EA%B7%B8"
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    title: "Norbert Grupe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Norbert Grupe"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wilhelm von Homburg"
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    title: "Wilhelm von Homburg"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump