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Bob Anderson

1922 - 2012

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Robert James Gilbert Anderson (15 September 1922 – 1 January 2012) was an English Olympic fencer and a renowned film fight choreographer, with a cinema career that spanned more than 50 years and included films such as Star Wars, Highlander, The Three Musketeers, The Princess Bride, The Mask of Zorro, The Lord of the Rings, and Die Another Day. He was regarded as the premier choreographer of Hollywood sword-fighting, and during his career he coached many actors in swordsmanship, including Errol Flynn, Sean Connery, Antonio Banderas, Mark Hamill, Viggo Mortensen, Adrian Paul, and Johnny Depp. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bob Anderson has received more than 32,935 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Bob Anderson is the 3,066th most popular actor (up from 3,925th in 2019), the 2,587th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 3,190th in 2019) and the 367th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 33k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.97

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Bob Anderson ranks 3,066 out of 13,578. Before him are Anna Q. Nilsson, Karel Roden, Olivia Wilde, Elena Anaya, Maruschka Detmers, and Emmy Rossum. After him are Akira Kamiya, Miriam Hopkins, Carol Kane, Olga Desmond, Flora Robson, and Daniel Duval.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Bob Anderson ranks 232. Before him are Michel Auclair, Farrokhroo Parsa, Steven Hill, Virgilio Noè, Tom Finney, and Herman Kahn. After him are Võ Văn Kiệt, Mariano Gonzalvo, Carmen McRae, Marlyn Meltzer, Hal Clement, and Evelyn Mase. Among people deceased in 2012, Bob Anderson ranks 201. Before him are Zakaria Mohieddin, Fiorenzo Magni, Luis Alberto Spinetta, Roald Aas, Jon Finch, and Mustafa Ould Salek. After him are Fang Lizhi, Shukri Ghanem, Ramaz Shengelia, Marvin Hamlisch, Ann Rutherford, and Dom Mintoff.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bob Anderson ranks 2,587 out of 8,785. Before him are Jack Greenwell (1884), Morris Travers (1872), Douglas Bader (1910), Henry Maitland Wilson (1881), Gayatri Devi (1919), and Ian McDonald (1946). After him are Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893), James Whale (1889), Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (1301), Flora Robson (1902), Edward Robert Hughes (1851), and Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird (1847).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Bob Anderson ranks 367. Before him are Philip Stone (1924), Freddie Highmore (1992), Ben Miller (1966), Flora Finch (1867), Edmund Gwenn (1877), and Jon Finch (1942). After him are Flora Robson (1902), Vanessa Kirby (1988), Ronald Pickup (1940), Dominic West (1969), Kit Harington (1986), and Peggy Ashcroft (1907).

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