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ACTOR

Bob Gunton

1945 - Today

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Bob Gunton is an American character actor of stage and screen. He is known for playing strict authoritarian characters, including Warden Samuel Norton in the 1994 prison drama The Shawshank Redemption, Chief George Earle in 1993's Demolition Man, Dr. Walcott, the domineering dean of Virginia Medical School in Patch Adams, and Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in Argo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bob Gunton has received more than 2,938,189 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Bob Gunton is the 941st most popular actor (up from 1,146th in 2019), the 1,730th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,113th in 2019) and the 465th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.47

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.43

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Bob Gunton ranks 941 out of 9,996Before him are Lilli Palmer, Marisa Pavan, Patrick Dempsey, Paul Muni, Giancarlo Esposito, and Daniel Radcliffe. After him are John Turturro, Dana Elcar, Lee Byung-hun, Sacha Guitry, Alan Alda, and Lee Majors.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Bob Gunton ranks 94Before him are Robert Sarah, Milo Manara, John Fogerty, Alexander, Crown Prince of Yugoslavia, Massimo Moratti, and Jessye Norman. After him are Maud Adams, Anatoly Fomenko, Christoph Schönborn, Momčilo Krajišnik, Angus Deaton, and Franco Battiato.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Bob Gunton ranks 1,730 out of 18,182Before him are Juliet Anderson (1938), Diana Gabaldon (1952), Patrick Dempsey (1966), Roger Ebert (1942), Count Basie (1904), and Benjamin Spock (1903). After him are Alfred Newman (1900), John Turturro (1957), Louis Comfort Tiffany (1848), Roger D. Kornberg (1947), Benjamin Lee Whorf (1897), and Creighton Abrams (1914).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Bob Gunton ranks 465Before him are Richard Jenkins (1947), Adrien Brody (1973), Jerry Stiller (1927), Angela Bassett (1958), Eva Mendes (1974), and Patrick Dempsey (1966). After him are John Turturro (1957), Dana Elcar (1927), Alan Alda (1936), Lee Majors (1939), Tony Burton (1937), and Jeffrey DeMunn (1947).

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