ACTOR

Barbara Shelley

1932 - 2021

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Barbara Shelley (born Barbara Teresa Kowin; 13 February 1932 – 3 January 2021) was an English film and television actress. She appeared in more than a hundred films and television series. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Barbara Shelley has received more than 793,768 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Barbara Shelley is the 7,500th most popular actor (down from 5,550th in 2019), the 5,309th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,199th in 2019) and the 836th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 790k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Barbara Shelley ranks 7,500 out of 13,578. Before her are Phyllis Thaxter, Janet Munro, Monty Banks, Kim Ah-joong, April Bowlby, and Catherine Mouchet. After her are Carlos Ponce, Balthazar Getty, Richard Edson, Fumiko Orikasa, Satsuki Yukino, and Kohsuke Toriumi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Barbara Shelley ranks 516. Before her are Andrew Young, Jake Garn, Slide Hampton, Daniel Kleppner, Poul Pedersen, and Derek Taylor. After her are Vitold Kreyer, Athol Fugard, Robert L. Forward, Danny Hodge, Coxsone Dodd, and Gennadiy Shatkov. Among people deceased in 2021, Barbara Shelley ranks 590. Before her are Ekkehard Fasser, Guillermo Sepúlveda, Andrew Vachss, Hans van Baalen, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, and Wayne Thiebaud. After her are Kinza Clodumar, Ron Flowers, Umberto Colombo, Viktor Shuvalov, Jacques Zimako, and Isidore Mankofsky.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Barbara Shelley ranks 5,309 out of 8,785. Before her are Keiran Lee (1984), William Nicholson (1872), Janet Munro (1934), Prince Louis of Cambridge (2018), Bertie Mee (1918), and Annie Haslam (1947). After her are John Bercow (1963), Valerie Davies (1912), Lucy Morton (1898), Ron Flockhart (1923), George Farquhar (1677), and Regé-Jean Page (1988).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Barbara Shelley ranks 836. Before her are John Le Mesurier (1912), Tom Payne (1982), Jaime Murray (1976), Darren Shahlavi (1972), Sophia Myles (1980), and Janet Munro (1934). After her are Regé-Jean Page (1988), Isabel Jeans (1891), Victoria Tennant (1950), Freema Agyeman (1979), Jodhi May (1975), and Ralph Brown (1957).

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Television and Movie Roles

Village of the Damned
Anthea Zellaby
In a small English village everyone suddenly falls unconscious. When they awake every woman of child bearing age is pregnant. The resulting children have the same strange blond hair, eyes and a strong connection to each other.
Jun 16th 19607.171 / 10
Dracula: Prince of Darkness
Helen Kent
Whilst vacationing in the Carpathian Mountain, two couples stumble across the remains of Count Dracula's castle. The Count's trusted servant kills one of the men, suspending the body over the Count's ashes so that the blood drips from the corpse and saturates the blackened remains. The ritual is completed, the Count revived and his attentions focus on the dead man's wife who is to become his partner; devoted to an existence of depravity and evil.
Jan 9th 19666.7 / 10
Quatermass and the Pit
Barbara Judd
A mysterious artifact unearthed below a London subway station proves to have powerful psychic effects on the people around.
Nov 9th 19676.607 / 10