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Barbara Bel Geddes

1922 - 2005

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Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American stage and screen actress, artist, and children's author whose career spanned almost 5 decades. She was best known for her starring role as Miss Ellie Ewing in the television series Dallas. Bel Geddes also starred as Maggie in the original Broadway production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof in 1955. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Bel Geddes has received more than 2,423,484 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Barbara Bel Geddes is the 982nd most popular actor (down from 771st in 2019), the 1,744th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,424th in 2019) and the 471st most popular American Actor.

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  • 58.95

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  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.33

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Barbara Bel Geddes ranks 982 out of 13,578. Before her are John Forsythe, Lou Ferrigno, Dean Stockwell, Conrad Bain, Lee Sun-kyun, and Ving Rhames. After her are Basil Rathbone, Sacha Baron Cohen, Stephen Lang, Paul Muni, Dirk Bogarde, and Honor Blackman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Barbara Bel Geddes ranks 84. Before her are Micheline Presle, Annemarie Schimmel, Luis Echeverría, Elmer Bernstein, John B. Goodenough, and Damiano Damiani. After her are Roger Etchegaray, Árpád Göncz, Patrick Macnee, Carlos Andrés Pérez, George Blake, and Jenny-Wanda Barkmann. Among people deceased in 2005, Barbara Bel Geddes ranks 61. Before her are Peter Benenson, Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Smalley, Carlo Maria Giulini, Arman, and Aenne Burda. After her are Robert Moog, John Garang, Henry Taube, Maurice Trintignant, Narriman Sadek, and Amrish Puri.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Barbara Bel Geddes ranks 1,744 out of 20,380. Before her are Joe Satriani (1956), Sammy Davis Jr. (1925), Ving Rhames (1959), Sol LeWitt (1928), Henry Ford II (1917), and John Fogerty (1945). After her are Martin Rodbell (1925), Luis Walter Alvarez (1911), Stephen Lang (1952), Aaron Copland (1900), George Gaylord Simpson (1902), and Margaret Keane (1927).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Barbara Bel Geddes ranks 471. Before her are Fran Drescher (1957), Fred Ward (1942), John Forsythe (1918), Lou Ferrigno (1951), Dean Stockwell (1936), and Ving Rhames (1959). After her are Stephen Lang (1952), Emilio Estevez (1962), Billy Crystal (1948), Lloyd Bridges (1913), Peter Coyote (1941), and Brion James (1945).

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Television and Movie Roles

Vertigo
Marjorie 'Midge' Wood
A retired San Francisco detective suffering from acrophobia investigates the strange activities of an old friend's wife, all the while becoming dangerously obsessed with her.
May 28th 19588.2 / 10
Dallas
Miss Ellie Southworth Ewing Farlow
The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked "Who shot J.R.?" A slow-burner to begin with, Dallas hit its stride in the 2nd season, with long storylines and expert character development. Dallas ruled the airwaves in the 1980's.
6.754 / 10
Panic in the Streets
Nancy Reed
A medical examiner discovers that an innocent shooting victim in a robbery died of bubonic plague. With only 48 hours to find the killer, who is now a ticking time bomb threatening the entire city, a grisly manhunt through the seamy underworld of the New Orleans Waterfront is underway.
Jul 27th 19506.9 / 10