ACTOR

Dana Elcar

1927 - 2005

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Ibsen Dana Elcar (October 10, 1927 – June 6, 2005) was an American television and film character actor. He appeared in about 40 films as well as in the 1960s television series Dark Shadows as Sheriff George Patterson and the 1980s and 1990s television series MacGyver as Peter Thornton, MacGyver's immediate supervisor at the Phoenix Foundation. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dana Elcar has received more than 1,214,201 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Dana Elcar is the 1,136th most popular actor (down from 941st in 2019), the 1,954th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,736th in 2019) and the 528th most popular American Actor.

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  • 57.99

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.34

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.40

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dana Elcar ranks 1,136 out of 13,578. Before him are Lee Majors, Michael Fassbender, David Thewlis, Billy Dee Williams, Michel Bouquet, and Otto Sander. After him are Adrienne Lecouvreur, Ciarán Hinds, James Faulkner, Adel Emam, Silvia Pinal, and Akiko Wakabayashi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1927, Dana Elcar ranks 94. Before him are Rosemary Harris, Jerry Stiller, R. D. Laing, Robert Shaw, Odvar Nordli, and Ram Narayan. After him are Dick Bruna, Eldar Ryazanov, Eartha Kitt, Vernon L. Smith, Jorge Batlle, and Hans Schäfer. Among people deceased in 2005, Dana Elcar ranks 69. Before him are John Garang, Henry Taube, Maurice Trintignant, Narriman Sadek, Amrish Puri, and Charly Gaul. After him are Clemente Domínguez y Gómez, Ba Jin, Richard Pryor, Yao Wenyuan, Will Eisner, and Zhang Chunqiao.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dana Elcar ranks 1,954 out of 20,380. Before him are Dean Koontz (1945), Langston Hughes (1902), Bo Diddley (1928), James Newton Howard (1951), Eric Adams (1952), and Mark W. Clark (1896). After him are Peggy Lee (1920), Paul Schrader (1946), Howard S. Becker (1928), Kevin Mitnick (1963), Fred Phelps (1929), and Gigi Hadid (1995).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Dana Elcar ranks 528. Before him are Eddie Constantine (1913), Jean Arthur (1900), Frances Conroy (1953), Armand Assante (1949), Lee Majors (1939), and Billy Dee Williams (1937). After him are Sydney Chaplin (1926), Carl Reiner (1922), Janet Gaynor (1906), Judd Hirsch (1935), Henry Calvin (1918), and John Carradine (1906).

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Television and Movie Roles

MacGyver
Pete Thornton
He's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a secret agent whose wits are his deadliest weapon. Armed with only a knapsack filled with everyday items he picks up along the way, he improvises his way out of every peril the bad guys throw at him. Making a bomb out of chewing gum? Fixing a speeding car's breaks... while he's riding in it? Using soda pop to cook up tear gas? That's all in a day's adventures for MacGyver. He's part Boy Scout, part genius. And all hero.
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The Sting
F.B.I. Agent Polk
A novice con man teams up with an acknowledged master to avenge the murder of a mutual friend by pulling off the ultimate big con and swindling a fortune from a big-time mobster.
Dec 25th 19738 / 10
2010
Dimitri Moisevitch
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.
Dec 6th 19846.7 / 10