ACTOR

Cara Williams

1925 - 2021

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Cara Williams (born Bernice Kamiat; June 29, 1925 – December 9, 2021) was an American film and television actress. She was best known for her role as Billy's Mother in The Defiant Ones (1958), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for her role as Gladys Porter on the 1960–62 CBS television series Pete and Gladys, for which she was nominated for the Emmy Award for Best Lead Actress in a Comedy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Cara Williams has received more than 819,714 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 23 in 2019). Cara Williams is the 8,253rd most popular actor (down from 4,147th in 2019), the 12,202nd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,250th in 2019) and the 3,845th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 820k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 40.78

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.21

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Cara Williams by language

Over the past year Cara Williams has had the most page views in the with 110,648 views, followed by Spanish (2,343), and Italian (2,111). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (94.32%), Basque (70.12%), and Southern Azerbaijani (25.51%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Cara Williams ranks 8,253 out of 13,578. Before her are Meagen Fay, Àlex Brendemühl, Hitomi Nabatame, Vladislav Galkin, Ralph Lewis, and Charlie Yeung. After her are Naomi Grossman, Virginia Brown Faire, Gina Rodriguez, Moses Chan, Mario Cantone, and Paola Núñez.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Cara Williams ranks 506. Before her are Kurt Lundquist, Adelina Gutiérrez, Roy Brown, Eddie Baily, Robert Cormier, and Finn Pedersen. After her are Aristid Lindenmayer, Christopher Zeeman, Bobby Ball, George MacDonald Fraser, Ted Lindsay, and Morgan Woodward. Among people deceased in 2021, Cara Williams ranks 640. Before her are Hamed Bakayoko, Ioannis Palaiokrassas, Beverly Cleary, John Shelby Spong, David Darling, and Boško Abramović. After her are Ian St John, Gert Blomé, Zizinho, Tuomo Ylipulli, Antonio de la Torre, and Vladimir Vysotsky.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Cara Williams ranks 12,202 out of 20,380. Before her are Dorothy Ashby (1932), Mike James (1990), Ralph Lewis (1872), Martha Hudson (1939), Derek Jeter (1974), and Rosanne Cash (1955). After her are Naomi Grossman (1975), Charles Ammi Cutter (1837), Edwin Thompson Jaynes (1922), Jacob Lawrence (1917), Virginia Brown Faire (1904), and Rick Santorum (1958).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Cara Williams ranks 3,845. Before her are Tatyana Ali (1979), Larry Parks (1914), Deborah Ann Woll (1985), Phil LaMarr (1967), Meagen Fay (1957), and Ralph Lewis (1872). After her are Naomi Grossman (1975), Virginia Brown Faire (1904), Gina Rodriguez (1984), Mario Cantone (1959), Jake Busey (1971), and Jason Winston George (1972).

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Television and Movie Roles

Laura
Advertising Agency Employee (uncredited)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he's investigating.
Oct 11o 19447.6 / 10
The Defiant Ones
Billy's mother
Two convicts—a white racist and an angry black man—escape while chained to each other.
Aug 14o 19587.131 / 10
Boomerang!
Irene Nelson
When a kindly priest is murdered while waiting at a street corner in a quiet Connecticut town, the citizens are horrified and demand action from the police. All of the witnesses identify John Waldron, a nervous out-of-towner, as the killer. Although he vehemently denies the crime, no one will believe him. District Attorney Henry Harvey is then put on the case and faces political opposition in his attempt to prove Waldron's innocence. Based on a true story.
Feb 28o 19476.9 / 10