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Adolfo Celi

1922 - 1986

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Adolfo Celi (Italian pronunciation: [aˈdɔlfo ˈtʃɛːli]; 27 July 1922 – 19 February 1986) was an Italian film actor and director. Born in Curcuraci, Messina, Sicily, Celi appeared in nearly 100 films, specialising in international villains. Although a prominent actor in Italian cinema and famed for many roles, he is best remembered internationally for his portrayal of Emilio Largo in the 1965 James Bond film Thunderball. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Adolfo Celi has received more than 600,839 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Adolfo Celi is the 725th most popular actor (up from 757th in 2019), the 1,228th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,300th in 2019) and the 34th most popular Italian Actor.

Adolfo Celi is most famous for his role as Colonel Landa in the movie, The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.

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  • 600k

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  • 60.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.73

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Adolfo Celi ranks 725 out of 9,996Before him are Oskar Werner, Erik Bruhn, Ben Stiller, Mark Strong, Emma Watson, and Viola Davis. After him are Susan Hayward, Claude Jade, Noah Jupe, Andie MacDowell, Jack Elam, and Kristin Scott Thomas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Adolfo Celi ranks 63Before him are Har Gobind Khorana, Richard Hamilton, Lucian Freud, Toots Thielemans, Oskar Werner, and Joan Fuster. After him are George Blake, Yuri Lotman, Barbara Bel Geddes, Carl Reiner, Jake LaMotta, and Denholm Elliott. Among people deceased in 1986, Adolfo Celi ranks 44Before him are Robert S. Mulliken, Vincente Minnelli, Otto Preminger, Dean Reed, Michel de Certeau, and Erik Bruhn. After him are Serge Lifar, Raymond Loewy, Ye Jianying, Coluche, Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock, and J. Allen Hynek.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Adolfo Celi ranks 1,228 out of 4,668Before him are Giovanni Battista Morgagni (1682), Marcantonio Raimondi (1480), Anastasius Bibliothecarius (815), Antonio Conte (1969), Giuseppe Conte (1964), and Gaius Asinius Pollio (-76). After him are Prince Emanuele Filiberto, Duke of Aosta (1869), Sigismondo Pandolfo Malatesta (1417), Giulio Natta (1903), Prince Henry of Battenberg (1858), Armando Diaz (1861), and Radagaisus (400).

Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Adolfo Celi ranks 34Before him are Daniela Bianchi (1942), Pier Angeli (1932), Totò (1898), Eleonora Duse (1858), Amy Adams (1974), and Claudia Mori (1944). After him are Stefania Sandrelli (1946), Gabriele Ferzetti (1925), Ugo Tognazzi (1922), Elsa Martinelli (1935), Anita Pallenberg (1942), and Marisa Pavan (1932).

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