ACTOR

Charles Farrell

1900 - 1990

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Charles David Farrell (August 9, 1900 – May 6, 1990) was an American film actor whose height was in the 1920s and 1930s and the Mayor of Palm Springs from 1947 to 1955. Farrell was known for his onscreen romances with actress Janet Gaynor in more than a dozen films, including 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Lucky Star. Later in life, he starred on TV in the 1950s sitcoms My Little Margie and played himself in The Charles Farrell Show. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Farrell has received more than 415,913 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Charles Farrell is the 7,556th most popular actor (down from 6,848th in 2019), the 11,140th most popular biography from United States (down from 10,177th in 2019) and the 3,495th most popular American Actor.

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  • 20

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  • 2.02

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  • 3.65

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Charles Farrell ranks 7,556 out of 13,578Before him are Margarita Levieva, JR Bourne, Mary Badham, Norman Pritchard, Yuko Takeuchi, and Juan Echanove. After him are Im Se-mi, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Farah Zeynep Abdullah, Clare Higgins, Shaun Evans, and Arlene Francis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Charles Farrell ranks 315Before him are Funmilayo Ransome-Kuti, Bernabé Rivera, Henri Cohen, Samuel King Allison, Sverre Sørsdal, and Renata Viganò. After him are Alice Terry, Beatrix Loughran, Helen Gahagan Douglas, Roberto Grau, Tebbs Lloyd Johnson, and Andy Auld. Among people deceased in 1990, Charles Farrell ranks 296Before him are Leongino Unzaim, June Christy, Ed Czerkiewicz, Ralph Bagnold, Luis Lucchetti, and Donald A. Wollheim. After him are Alan Hale Jr., Nobuo Arai, Andrew Wood, Madge Bellamy, Adam Papée, and Leopold Neumer.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Charles Farrell ranks 11,140 out of 20,380Before him are Kim Fowley (1939), Jessica Meir (1977), David Miscavige (1960), Mary Badham (1952), Jim Neidhart (1955), and Phil Hellmuth (1964). After him are John Clellon Holmes (1926), Ron Brown (1941), Pat O'Connor (1928), Alexei Panshin (1940), Forrest Towns (1914), and John O'Connor (1920).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Charles Farrell ranks 3,495Before him are Christine Taylor (1971), Constance Cummings (1910), Simon Rex (1974), Don Messick (1926), Dana Ashbrook (1967), and Mary Badham (1952). After him are Arlene Francis (1907), Tom Aldredge (1928), Wade Dominguez (1966), James Daly (1918), Joanna Kerns (1953), and Ariana Richards (1979).