ACTOR

Conrad Bain

1923 - 2013

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Conrad Stafford Bain (February 4, 1923 – January 14, 2013) was a Canadian-American actor. His television credits include a leading role as Phillip Drummond in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986), as Dr. Arthur Harmon on Maude (1972–1978), and as Charlie Ross in Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Conrad Bain has received more than 2,106,514 page views. His biography is available in 82 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 83 in 2019). Conrad Bain is the 979th most popular actor (up from 1,343rd in 2019), the 76th most popular biography from Canada (up from 103rd in 2019) and the 19th most popular Canadian Actor.

Conrad Bain was most famous for playing the father in the television show "Diff'rent Strokes."

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  • 59.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 82

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.55

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Conrad Bain ranks 979 out of 13,578. Before him are Fran Drescher, Frank Oz, Fred Ward, John Forsythe, Lou Ferrigno, and Dean Stockwell. After him are Lee Sun-kyun, Ving Rhames, Barbara Bel Geddes, Basil Rathbone, Sacha Baron Cohen, and Stephen Lang.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Conrad Bain ranks 74. Before him are Lola Flores, Yelena Bonner, Diane Arbus, Aaron Spelling, Chuck Yeager, and Agatha Barbara. After him are Hwang Jang-yop, Leonid Gaidai, Reinhart Koselleck, André Courrèges, Ernest Mandel, and Alicia de Larrocha. Among people deceased in 2013, Conrad Bain ranks 71. Before him are Pedro Rocha, Joe Weider, Kenneth G. Wilson, Patrice Chéreau, David H. Hubel, and Roger Ebert. After him are Wojciech Kilar, Damiano Damiani, Bigas Luna, Seamus Heaney, Kenneth Waltz, and Sławomir Mrożek.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Conrad Bain ranks 76 out of 1,622. Before him are Charles Taylor (1931), Edward Dmytryk (1908), Ryan Reynolds (1976), Catherine O'Hara (1954), Jason Priestley (1969), and David H. Hubel (1926). After him are Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), Geneviève Bujold (1942), Donna Strickland (1959), Denis Villeneuve (1967), Henry Taube (1915), and Bonar Law (1858).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Conrad Bain ranks 19. Before him are John Candy (1950), Mike Myers (1963), Glenn Ford (1916), Ryan Reynolds (1976), Catherine O'Hara (1954), and Jason Priestley (1969). After him are Carrie-Anne Moss (1967), Geneviève Bujold (1942), Shannon Tweed (1957), Yvonne De Carlo (1922), Victor Garber (1949), and Martin Short (1950).

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Television and Movie Roles

Diff'rent Strokes
Phillip Drummond
The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly, for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett.
7.026 / 10
Bananas
Semple
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
Apr 28th 19716.691 / 10
Postcards from the Edge
Grandpa
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion drinker. Such a set-up is bad news for Suzanne who has struggled for years to get out of her mother's shadow, and who still treats her like a child. Despite these and other problems, Suzanne begins to see the funny side of her situation, and also realises that not only do daughters have mothers—mothers do too.
Sep 14th 19906.6 / 10