ACTOR

Bob Crane

1928 - 1978

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Robert Edward Crane (July 13, 1928 – June 29, 1978) was an American actor, drummer, radio personality, and disc jockey known for starring in the CBS situation comedy Hogan's Heroes. Crane was a drummer from age 11, and he began his entertainment career as a radio personality, beginning in Hornell, New York and later in Connecticut. He then moved to Los Angeles, where he hosted the number-one rated morning radio show. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bob Crane has received more than 7,121,009 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Bob Crane is the 3,025th most popular actor (up from 3,086th in 2019), the 4,609th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,833rd in 2019) and the 1,371st most popular American Actor.

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  • 7.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.32

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  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.47

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Bob Crane ranks 3,025 out of 13,578. Before him are David Belle, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Viviane Romance, Keith David, Engin Akyürek, and Olive Thomas. After him are Maude Adams, Gustav Knuth, Flora Finch, Hilda Bernard, Park Seo-joon, and Edmund Gwenn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Bob Crane ranks 293. Before him are Clifford Edmund Bosworth, Dick Miller, Pedro Casaldáliga, Frank Frazetta, Kiyoshi Atsumi, and Umberto Maglioli. After him are Gunnar Andersson, Luciano De Crescenzo, Roald Aas, Fatemeh Pahlavi, Qian Qichen, and José Bonaparte. Among people deceased in 1978, Bob Crane ranks 127. Before him are Roy Harrod, Rudolf Svensson, Juan Evaristo, Carlos Riolfo, Franz Bäke, and Jerzy Kuryłowicz. After him are Artem Alikhanian, Robert Menzies, Liane Augustin, Charles Best, Claude Dauphin, and Gene Tunney.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bob Crane ranks 4,609 out of 20,380. Before him are Adam Lambert (1982), Beau Biden (1969), Harry Frankfurt (1929), Keith David (1956), Yusuf Estes (1944), and Olive Thomas (1894). After him are Nate Thurmond (1941), Willis Reed (1942), Maude Adams (1872), Alvin York (1887), Al Taliaferro (1905), and Chuck Daly (1930).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Bob Crane ranks 1,371. Before him are Stephen Tobolowsky (1951), Murray Hamilton (1923), John McCook (1944), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), Keith David (1956), and Olive Thomas (1894). After him are Maude Adams (1872), Patti LuPone (1949), Shemar Moore (1970), Kathleen Quinlan (1954), Kenny Ortega (1950), and Jack Albertson (1907).

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Television and Movie Roles

Hogan's Heroes
Robert Hogan
Hogan's Heroes is an American television sitcom that ran for 168 episodes from September 17, 1965, to July 4, 1971, on the CBS network. The show was set in a German prisoner of war camp during World War II. Bob Crane starred as Colonel Robert E. Hogan, coordinating an international crew of Allied prisoners running a Special Operations group from the camp. Werner Klemperer played Colonel Wilhelm Klink, the commandant of the camp, and John Banner was the inept sergeant-of-the-guard, Hans Schultz. The series was popular during its six-season run. In 2013, creators Bernard Fein through his estate and Albert S. Ruddy acquired the sequel and other separate rights to Hogan's Heroes from Mark Cuban through arbitration and a movie based on the show has been planned.
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Superdad
Charlie McCready
A dad tries to impress the daughter -- a soon-to-be college student he thinks is hanging around with a bad crowd.
Dec 14o 19734.6 / 10
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Pepper
The California Atoms are in last place with no hope of moving up. But by switching the mule from team mascot to team member, (He can kick 100 yard field goals!) they start winning, and move up in the rankings, Hurrah! The competition isn't so happy.
Jul 7o 19766 / 10