ACTOR

Alun Armstrong

1946 - Today

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Alan Armstrong (born 1946), known professionally as Alun Armstrong, is an English character actor. He grew up in County Durham in North East England, and first became interested in acting through Shakespeare productions at his grammar school. Since his career began in the early 1970s, he has played, in his words, "the full spectrum of characters from the grotesque to musicals... Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alun Armstrong has received more than 3,153,309 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. Alun Armstrong is the 5,048th most popular actor (down from 4,501st in 2019), the 3,831st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,537th in 2019) and the 585th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.2M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.06

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Alun Armstrong ranks 5,048 out of 13,578. Before him are Dorothy Provine, Kane Hodder, Eduardo Noriega, Ken Uehara, Kevin Gage, and Patricia Hayes. After him are Pat Crawford Brown, Jane Curtin, Julia Gutiérrez Caba, Javier Cámara, Jean Stapleton, and Alexandra Paul.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Alun Armstrong ranks 540. Before him are Alan Dean Foster, Larry Graham, Abdul Qadir Bajamal, Oscar Más, Charles Asati, and Mark Snow. After him are Michael, Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Yekaterina Gradova, Stephen P. Synnott, Tom Walkinshaw, Milton Viera, and Elisabetta Casellati.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alun Armstrong ranks 3,831 out of 8,785. Before him are Ben Chaplin (1969), Peter Scott (1909), David Marshall Lang (1924), Tobias Furneaux (1735), Patricia Hayes (1909), and Vincent Nichols (1945). After him are Peter Murphy (1957), Anthony D. Smith (1939), Ivor Novello (1893), Lucy Walter (1630), Phil Mogg (1948), and Peter Blake (1932).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Alun Armstrong ranks 585. Before him are Michael Hurst (1957), Carol Cleveland (1942), Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903), Freddie Jones (1927), Ben Chaplin (1969), and Patricia Hayes (1909). After him are Paul Anderson (1978), David Burke (1934), Virginia McKenna (1931), Talulah Riley (1985), Stanley Holloway (1890), and H. B. Warner (1876).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Mummy Returns
Baltus Hafez
Rick and Evelyn O’Connell, along with their 8-year-old son Alex, discover the key to the legendary Scorpion King’s might: the fabled Bracelet of Anubis. Unfortunately, a newly resurrected Imhotep has designs on the bracelet as well, and isn’t above kidnapping its new bearer, Alex, to gain control of Anubis’s otherworldly army.
May 4o 20016.374 / 10
Van Helsing
Cardinal Jinette
Famed monster slayer Gabriel Van Helsing is dispatched to Transylvania to assist the last of the Valerious bloodline in defeating Count Dracula. Anna Valerious reveals that Dracula has formed an unholy alliance with Dr. Frankenstein's monster and is hell-bent on exacting a centuries-old curse on her family.
May 3o 20046.372 / 10
Eragon
Uncle Garrow
In his homeland of Alagaesia, a farm boy happens upon a dragon's egg -- a discovery that leads him on a predestined journey where he realized he's the one person who can defend his home against an evil king.
Dec 14o 20065.107 / 10