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Alice Terry

1900 - 1987

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Alice Frances Taaffe (July 24, 1899 – December 22, 1987), known professionally as Alice Terry, was an American film actress and director. She began her career during the silent film era, appearing in thirty-nine films between 1916 and 1933. While Terry's trademark look was her blonde hair, she was actually a brunette, and put on her first blonde wig in Hearts Are Trumps (1920) to look different from Francelia Billington, the other actress in the film. Terry played several different characters in the 1916 anti-war film Civilization, co-directed by Thomas H. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alice Terry has received more than 186,622 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Alice Terry is the 7,595th most popular actor (down from 7,396th in 2019), the 11,186th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,970th in 2019) and the 3,512th most popular American Actor.

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  • 190k

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  • 42.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Alice Terry ranks 7,595 out of 13,578. Before her are Meaghan Martin, Im Si-wan, Sada Thompson, Mari Iijima, Sullivan Stapleton, and George Tobias. After her are Isabelle Fuhrman, David Gulpilil, Dwight Frye, Peter Masterson, Lee Tergesen, and June Havoc.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Alice Terry ranks 316. Before her are Bernabé Rivera, Henri Cohen, Samuel King Allison, Sverre Sørsdal, Renata Viganò, and Charles Farrell. After her are Beatrix Loughran, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Roberto Grau, Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, Andy Auld, and Edna Best. Among people deceased in 1987, Alice Terry ranks 243. Before her are Raya Dunayevskaya, George Gulack, Joan Greenwood, Hermione Gingold, Rudolf Krause, and José González Ganoza. After her are Paul Martin, Robert O'Brien, Silvio Pietroboni, Alexander Wood, Errol Barrow, and Antony Tudor.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Alice Terry ranks 11,186 out of 20,380. Before her are Brian Welch (1970), Meaghan Martin (1992), Helen Hunt Jackson (1830), Adam Jones (1965), Tim O'Brien (1946), and George Tobias (1901). After her are Isabelle Fuhrman (1997), Dwight Frye (1899), Alexandra Silk (1963), Peter Masterson (1934), Ed Thigpen (1930), and Sam Lacey (1948).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Alice Terry ranks 3,512. Before her are Jack Angel (1930), Ann Robinson (1929), Carmel Myers (1899), Gabriel Mann (1972), Meaghan Martin (1992), and George Tobias (1901). After her are Isabelle Fuhrman (1997), Dwight Frye (1899), Peter Masterson (1934), Lee Tergesen (1965), Robert Wuhl (1951), and Mackenzie Phillips (1959).

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