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Alex Winter

1965 - Today

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Alexander Winter is a British and American actor and filmmaker. As an actor, he is best known for playing Bill S. Preston Esq. in the 1989 film Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and its sequels Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey (1991) and Bill & Ted Face the Music (2020). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alex Winter has received more than 4,049,992 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Alex Winter is the 9,808th most popular actor (down from 8,555th in 2019), the 6,374th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,623rd in 2019) and the 1,095th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 37.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.78

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Alex Winter ranks 9,808 out of 13,578. Before him are Mark Lewis Jones, Nora Aunor, Dacre Montgomery, Jewel Staite, Rob Corddry, and Elizabeth Rodriguez. After him are Irene Ryan, Anna Favella, Ella Chen, Lara Dutta, Min Hyo-rin, and Helen Mack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Alex Winter ranks 674. Before him are Bill Bailey, Jeff Nathanson, Michael Goldenberg, Catalino Rivarola, Neus Asensi, and Masahiro Wada. After him are Franck Piccard, Chen Longcan, Andrea Zorzi, Yusuke Minoguchi, Kenji Yamamoto, and Nílson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alex Winter ranks 6,374 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Heatherwick (1970), Robert James-Collier (1976), Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852), Hugh MacDiarmid (1892), Mark Lewis Jones (1964), and John Mortimer (1923). After him are Justin Chancellor (1971), Douglas Murray (1979), Emmeline Pethick-Lawrence (1867), Tyias Browning (1994), Don Letts (1956), and Ben Davis (1961).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Alex Winter ranks 1,095. Before him are Natasha O'Keeffe (1986), Kelly Osbourne (1984), Finn Jones (1988), Robert James-Collier (1976), Herbert Beerbohm Tree (1852), and Mark Lewis Jones (1964). After him are Kristian Nairn (1975), Paul Blackthorne (1969), Virginia Field (1917), Silas Carson (1965), Adam Faith (1940), and Jeremy Irvine (1990).

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Television and Movie Roles

Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure
Bill S. Preston
Bill and Ted are high school buddies starting a band. They are also about to fail their history class—which means Ted would be sent to military school—but receive help from Rufus, a traveller from a future where their band is the foundation for a perfect society. With the use of Rufus' time machine, Bill and Ted travel to various points in history, returning with important figures to help them complete their final history presentation.
Feb 17th 19896.9 / 10
Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey
Bill / Granny Preston
Amiable slackers Bill and Ted are once again roped into a fantastical adventure when De Nomolos, a villain from the future, sends evil robot duplicates of the two lads to terminate and replace them. The robot doubles actually succeed in killing Bill and Ted, but the two are determined to escape the afterlife, challenging the Grim Reaper to a series of games in order to return to the land of the living.
Jul 19th 19916.316 / 10
Bill & Ted Face the Music
Bill
Yet to fulfil their rock and roll destiny, now middle-aged best friends Bill and Ted set out on a new adventure when a visitor from the future warns them that only their song can save life as we know it. Along the way, they are helped by their daughters, a new batch of historical figures and a few music legends — to seek the song that will set their world right and bring harmony to the universe.
Aug 27th 20205.9 / 10