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Betsy Palmer

1926 - 2015

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Betsy Palmer (born Patricia Betsy Hrunek; November 1, 1926 – May 29, 2015) was an American actress known for her many film and Broadway roles, television guest-starring appearances, as a panelist on the game show I've Got a Secret, and later for playing the antagonist and mother of Jason Voorhees, Pamela Voorhees, in the first Friday the 13th film (1980). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Betsy Palmer has received more than 1,793,660 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Betsy Palmer is the 3,445th most popular actor (down from 3,065th in 2019), the 5,327th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,916th in 2019) and the 1,627th most popular American Actor.

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  • 1.8M

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  • 48.77

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Betsy Palmer ranks 3,445 out of 9,996Before her are Nita Naldi, Han Hyo-joo, Jason Beghe, Leslie Grossman, Janet Ågren, and Marie Doro. After her are Predrag Bjelac, Sergei Yursky, Anthony Wong, Radha Mitchell, Peter Franzén, and Amjad Khan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Betsy Palmer ranks 257Before her are Alina Szapocznikow, Lino Aldani, Kerwin Mathews, Maneca, Dharamvir Bharati, and Yehuda Bauer. After her are Lou Donaldson, Robert Ballaman, Lu'ay al-Atassi, Edmund Purdom, Kees Rijvers, and Aurèle Nicolet. Among people deceased in 2015, Betsy Palmer ranks 224Before her are Dinkha IV, László Paskai, Geoffrey Howe, Karl Josef Becker, Nora Brockstedt, and Lizabeth Scott. After her are Nicolae Rainea, Karl-Erik Palmér, Dusty Rhodes, Henry Carr, Nicholas Liverpool, and Ninón Sevilla.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Betsy Palmer ranks 5,327 out of 18,182Before her are Jason Beghe (1960), Wilson Greatbatch (1919), Bryce DeWitt (1923), Leslie Grossman (1971), Buckethead (1969), and Marie Doro (1882). After her are Little Walter (1930), William Rehnquist (1924), Frances Sternhagen (1930), Richard Lewontin (1929), Camille Paglia (1947), and Irvin McDowell (1818).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Betsy Palmer ranks 1,627Before her are Rachel Ticotin (1958), Simon Helberg (1980), Nita Naldi (1894), Jason Beghe (1960), Leslie Grossman (1971), and Marie Doro (1882). After her are Frances Sternhagen (1930), Tom Noonan (1951), Pearl White (1889), Billie Burke (1884), Kim Raver (1969), and Kim Dickens (1965).

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