ACTOR

Alberto Sordi

1920 - 2003

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Alberto Sordi (15 June 1920 – 24 February 2003) was an Italian actor, comedian, voice dubber, director, singer, composer and screenwriter. Sordi is considered one of the most important actors in the history of Italian cinema and one of the best in commedia all'italiana. Together with Nino Manfredi, Vittorio Gassman and Ugo Tognazzi he formed a quartet that starred in the most popular movies of this genre. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alberto Sordi has received more than 471,050 page views. His biography is available in 57 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 56 in 2019). Alberto Sordi is the 477th most popular actor (up from 544th in 2019), the 935th most popular biography from Italy (up from 1,012th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Actor.

Alberto Sordi is most famous for his comedic performances in Italian films.

Memorability Metrics

  • 470k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 63.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 57

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Alberto Sordi ranks 477 out of 13,578. Before him are Powers Boothe, Alida Valli, Stéphane Audran, Joan Collins, Errol Flynn, and Joaquin Phoenix. After him are Matthew McConaughey, Jason Robards, Robert Carlyle, Ginger Rogers, Steve Buscemi, and Michael Lonsdale.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Alberto Sordi ranks 37. Before him are Clarice Lispector, Montgomery Clift, Walter Matthau, Douglass North, Sergei Bondarchuk, and John Demjanjuk. After him are Ravi Shankar, Sun Myung Moon, Gunnar Gren, Kaysone Phomvihane, Edmond H. Fischer, and Mickey Rooney. Among people deceased in 2003, Alberto Sordi ranks 30. Before him are Maurice Blanchot, Luciano Berio, Frederick Chapman Robbins, Bernard Katz, Helmut Rahn, and Isser Harel. After him are Compay Segundo, Leon Uris, Franco Modigliani, Richard Crenna, Leslie Cheung, and Bertram Brockhouse.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Alberto Sordi ranks 935 out of 5,161. Before him are Natalia Ginzburg (1916), Carla Bruni (1967), Eleonora Gonzaga (1630), Maximilian Sforza (1493), Arrigo Boito (1842), and Valerius Maximus (-100). After him are François Gérard (1770), Melania the Younger (383), Pope Leo VIII (900), Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans (1810), Sandro Mazzola (1942), and Marie Mancini (1639).

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Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Alberto Sordi ranks 24. Before him are Vittorio Gassman (1922), Rudolph Valentino (1895), Lino Ventura (1919), Giancarlo Giannini (1942), Gian Maria Volonté (1933), and Michele Placido (1946). After him are Lucia Bosè (1931), Franco Columbu (1941), Claudia Mori (1944), Totò (1898), Eleonora Duse (1858), and Stefania Sandrelli (1946).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Marquis of Grillo
Onofrio Del Grillo
In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
Dec 23o 19817.8 / 10
I Vitelloni
Alberto
Five young men dream of success as they drift lazily through life in a small Italian village. Fausto, the group's leader, is a womanizer; Riccardo craves fame; Alberto is a hopeless dreamer; Moraldo fantasizes about life in the city; and Leopoldo is an aspiring playwright. As Fausto chases a string of women, to the horror of his pregnant wife, the other four blunder their way from one uneventful experience to the next.
Sep 17o 19537.653 / 10
The White Sheik
Fernando Rivoli - il sceicco bianco
In Italy, small-town newlyweds Wanda and Ivan Cavalli embark on their honeymoon in the big city of Rome. Ivan dutifully wants to keep appointments with family and church, but Wanda is only interested in meeting her favorite photo-strip star known as "The White Sheik". While Wanda impetuously sneaks away to locate the object of her affections, disconsolate Ivan tries his hardest to keep up appearances with the couple's relatives.
Sep 20o 19527.2 / 10