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Amrish Puri

1932 - 2005

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Amrish Puri (22 June 1932 – 12 January 2005) was an Indian actor, who was one of the most notable and important figures in Indian cinema and theatre. He acted in more than 450 films, established himself as one of the most popular and iconic actors in Indian cinema. Puri is remembered for playing various roles in a variety of film genres, especially iconic villainous roles in Hindi cinema, as well as international cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Amrish Puri has received more than 9,629,447 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 47 in 2019). Amrish Puri is the 1,076th most popular actor (up from 1,227th in 2019), the 195th most popular biography from India (up from 199th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Indian Actor.

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  • 9.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.39

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 50

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Amrish Puri ranks 1,076 out of 13,578. Before him are Run Run Shaw, Bernard Blier, Kathryn Joosten, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Rosemary Harris, and Joan Plowright. After him are Barbara Brylska, Hema Malini, Stacy Keach, Pedro Infante, Megan Fox, and Tchéky Karyo.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Amrish Puri ranks 107. Before him are Ingemar Johansson, Joe Zawinul, Antonio Tejero, Rodion Shchedrin, Paolo Villaggio, and Wolf Vostell. After him are Joseph Zen, Charly Gaul, Stuart Hall, Aharon Appelfeld, Dieter Rams, and Dušan Makavejev. Among people deceased in 2005, Amrish Puri ranks 67. Before him are Barbara Bel Geddes, Robert Moog, John Garang, Henry Taube, Maurice Trintignant, and Narriman Sadek. After him are Charly Gaul, Dana Elcar, Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Ba Jin, Richard Pryor, and Yao Wenyuan.

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In India

Among people born in India, Amrish Puri ranks 195 out of 1,861. Before him are George Alencherry (1945), A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada (1896), B. K. S. Iyengar (1918), Shilpa Shetty (1975), M. Visvesvaraya (1861), and Guru Tegh Bahadur (1621). After him are Hema Malini (1948), Andal (800), Kuvempu (1904), Pushyamitra Shunga (-300), Shah Waliullah Dehlawi (1703), and Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq (1924).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Amrish Puri ranks 12. Before him are Julie Christie (1940), Mithun Chakraborty (1950), Akshay Kumar (1967), Ajay Devgn (1969), Dharmendra (1935), and Shilpa Shetty (1975). After him are Hema Malini (1948), Rajesh Khanna (1942), Aamir Khan (1965), Sridevi (1963), Merle Oberon (1911), and Jaya Bachchan (1948).

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