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Ann Todd

1907 - 1993

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Dorothy Ann Todd (24 January 1907 – 6 May 1993) was an English film, television and stage actress who achieved international fame when she starred in The Seventh Veil (1945). From 1949 to 1957 she was married to David Lean who directed her in The Passionate Friends (1949), Madeleine (1950), and The Sound Barrier (1952). She was a member of The Old Vic theatre company and in 1957 starred in a Broadway play. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ann Todd has received more than 670,687 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Ann Todd is the 5,000th most popular actor (up from 5,583rd in 2019), the 3,793rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,219th in 2019) and the 576th most popular British Actor.

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  • 670k

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  • 47.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.66

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ann Todd ranks 5,000 out of 13,578. Before her are Ricardo Antonio Chavira, Guy Ecker, Khloé Kardashian, Edward Everett Horton, Gary Merrill, and Ken Foree. After her are Zhou Xun, Okan Yalabık, Flavio Bucci, Eva Rueber-Staier, Shemp Howard, and Jane Wyatt.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Ann Todd ranks 289. Before her are Hagigat Rzayeva, Henk Badings, Alfred Schmitt, Leslie Charteris, Marie Jahoda, and Luiz Gervazoni. After her are Alfredo Devincenzi, Maurice Cloche, Jean Van Houtte, Clifford Curzon, Willy Busch, and Hassler Whitney. Among people deceased in 1993, Ann Todd ranks 210. Before her are Joe Kelly, Akio Kaminaga, Natália Correia, Leslie Charteris, Edwin Vásquez, and Roman Abelevich Kachanov. After her are Edith Farkas, Axel von dem Bussche, Lester del Rey, Tahar Djaout, Kenny Drew, and Tony Barton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ann Todd ranks 3,793 out of 8,785. Before her are Ernest Payne (1884), Prince William Henry, Duke of Gloucester and Edinburgh (1743), Rhys ap Gruffydd (1132), Jonathan Stroud (1970), Beatrice Webb (1858), and Ray Wilson (1934). After her are Jane Marcet (1769), John Polkinghorne (1930), Chris Irwin (1942), Elizabeth Spriggs (1929), Paul Kossoff (1950), and George Milne, 1st Baron Milne (1866).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Ann Todd ranks 576. Before her are Ed Skrein (1983), Herbert Marshall (1890), Rupert Friend (1981), Pauline Collins (1940), Michael Rennie (1909), and Ron Moody (1924). After her are Elizabeth Spriggs (1929), Wallace Ford (1898), Katherine Waterston (1980), Michael Hurst (1957), Carol Cleveland (1942), and Wilfrid Hyde-White (1903).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Paradine Case
Gay Keane
Attorney Anthony Keane agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine, who has been fingered in her husband's murder. From the start, the married lawyer is drawn to the enigmatic beauty, and he begins to cast about for a way to exonerate his client. Keane puts the Paradine household servant on the stand, suggesting he is the killer. But Keane soon loses his way in the courtroom, and his half-baked plan sets off a stunning chain of events.
Dec 31st 19476.2 / 10
The Passionate Friends
Mary Justin
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.
Jan 26th 19496.9 / 10
Taste of Fear
Jane Appleby
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
Jun 5th 19617 / 10