ACTOR

Anthony Franciosa

1928 - 2006

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Anthony George Franciosa (né Papaleo; October 25, 1928 – January 19, 2006) was an American actor most often billed as Tony Franciosa at the height of his career. He began his career on stage and made a breakthrough portraying the brother of the drug addict in the play A Hatful of Rain, which earned him a nomination for the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play. He reprised his role in its subsequent film adaptation, for which he won the 1957 Venice Film Festival Award for Best Actor, and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role.After relocating to Hollywood he made numerous feature films, including A Face in the Crowd (1957), The Long, Hot Summer (1958), and Career (1959), for which he won the Golden Globe for Best Actor. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anthony Franciosa has received more than 1,393,905 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Anthony Franciosa is the 2,482nd most popular actor (down from 2,466th in 2019), the 3,920th most popular biography from United States (up from 3,980th in 2019) and the 1,134th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Anthony Franciosas by language

Over the past year Anthony Franciosa has had the most page views in the with 163,186 views, followed by Italian (18,902), and Spanish (16,476). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (125.85%), Irish (84.59%), and Finnish (32.58%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Anthony Franciosa ranks 2,482 out of 13,578. Before him are Kathleen Freeman, Reginald VelJohnson, Henry Irving, Hope Lange, Carol Potter, and Bai Ling. After him are Anastasiya Vertinskaya, Anita Berber, J. Y. Park, Virginia Madsen, William Forsythe, and Ferdinand Marian.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Anthony Franciosa ranks 253. Before him are Nicolas Roeg, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Alan Sillitoe, Nils Christie, Alexander Gomelsky, and Annie Cordy. After him are Sohrab Sepehri, Edgar Schein, Pal Benko, Azlan Shah of Perak, Charles Gray, and William Klein. Among people deceased in 2006, Anthony Franciosa ranks 162. Before him are Henri Colpi, Elizabeth Bolden, Mariam Aslamazian, Chris Penn, June Allyson, and Bruno Kirby. After him are Georgios Rallis, Tetsurō Tamba, Johnny Servoz-Gavin, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Maureen Stapleton, and Maynard Ferguson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Anthony Franciosa ranks 3,920 out of 20,380. Before him are Carol Potter (1948), Richard Estes (1932), Robert Crumb (1943), Earl Hines (1903), Gene Kranz (1933), and Charlie Kaufman (1958). After him are Robert Evans (1930), Virginia Madsen (1961), Vincent Richards (1903), William Forsythe (1955), Erik Estrada (1949), and Rosalind Russell (1907).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Anthony Franciosa ranks 1,134. Before him are Leslie Jones (1967), Muse Watson (1948), Kathleen Freeman (1919), Reginald VelJohnson (1952), Hope Lange (1933), and Carol Potter (1948). After him are Virginia Madsen (1961), William Forsythe (1955), Erik Estrada (1949), Rosalind Russell (1907), Georgia Hale (1900), and Blake Clark (1946).

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Television and Movie Roles

Tenebre
Peter Neal
An American writer in Rome is stalked by a serial killer bent on harassing him while killing all people associated with his work on his latest book.
Oct 28o 19826.859 / 10
Death Wish II
Herman Baldwin
Paul Kersey is again a vigilante trying to find five punks who murdered his housekeeper and daughter in Los Angeles.
Feb 20o 19826.252 / 10
A Face in the Crowd
Joey DePalma
The rise of a raucous hayseed named Lonesome Rhodes from itinerant Ozark guitar picker to local media rabble-rouser to TV superstar and political king-maker. Marcia Jeffries is the innocent Sarah Lawrence girl who discovers the great man in a back-country jail and is the first to fall under his spell.
May 29o 19577.593 / 10