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Brock Peters

1927 - 2005

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Brock Peters (born George Fisher; July 2, 1927 – August 23, 2005) was an American actor and singer, best known for playing the villainous "Crown" in the 1959 film version of Porgy and Bess, and Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird. He made his Broadway debut in the 1965 Norman Rosten play Mister Johnson. He was nominated for a Tony Award and won a Drama Desk Award and an Outer Critics Circle Award for his lead role as Rev. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brock Peters has received more than 1,628,839 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Brock Peters is the 4,334th most popular actor (up from 4,534th in 2019).

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.70

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Brock Peters ranks 4,334 out of 9,996Before him are Matthew Macfadyen, Evan Rachel Wood, Boris Andreyev, Edie McClurg, Kikuko Inoue, and Waheeda Rehman. After him are Iya Savvina, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Çağatay Ulusoy, Antoine de Caunes, Karin Viard, and Hélène Vincent.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Brock Peters ranks 293Before him are Kay Kendall, Clint Walker, Elliot See, Althea Gibson, Otto Stich, and Eileen Ryan. After him are Roberto Suazo Córdova, Robert Guillaume, Adrián Escudero, Mort Sahl, Victor Mees, and Hirotugu Akaike. Among people deceased in 2005, Brock Peters ranks 219Before him are Fabrizio Meoni, Joe Ranft, Johnny Haynes, Jean Cayrol, Eugene McCarthy, and Julián Marías. After him are Karen Lancaume, Pierre Daninos, Vladimir Toporov, György Sándor, Shirley Horn, and Sverre Stenersen.

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