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David Janssen

1931 - 1980

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David Janssen (born David Harold Meyer; March 27, 1931 – February 13, 1980) was an American film and television actor who is best known for his starring role as Richard Kimble in the television series The Fugitive (1963–1967). Janssen also had the title roles in three other series: Richard Diamond, Private Detective; O'Hara, U.S. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of David Janssen has received more than 2,518,337 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). David Janssen is the 2,441st most popular actor (down from 1,801st in 2019), the 3,951st most popular biography from United States (down from 3,129th in 2019) and the 1,165th most popular American Actor.

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  • 2.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.56

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.12

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, David Janssen ranks 2,441 out of 9,996. Before him are Danny Huston, Hillevi Rombin, Richard Roundtree, Nancy Kelly, Prakash Raj, and Cansu Dere. After him are Reginald VelJohnson, Tom Atkins, Lana Wood, Sean Astin, Ann Rutherford, and Marika Green.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, David Janssen ranks 217. Before him are Caroline Graham, Janosch, Adrianus Johannes Simonis, Ted Kotcheff, Rolf Hochhuth, and Jan Johansson. After him are Jean Béliveau, Yulian Semyonov, Christian Metz, Yevgeny Grishin, Ole-Johan Dahl, and Boris Pankin. Among people deceased in 1980, David Janssen ranks 132. Before him are Lucien Buysse, Alfred Neubauer, Allan Pettersson, Torcuato Fernández-Miranda, Yakov Malik, and Sohrab Sepehri. After him are Miguel Capuccini, Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz, Gastone Nencini, André Leducq, Fatmawati, and Celia Sánchez.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, David Janssen ranks 3,951 out of 18,182. Before him are Nancy Kelly (1921), Alfred Worden (1932), Fanny Crosby (1820), B. J. Thomas (1942), Lyndon LaRouche (1922), and Mitchell Feigenbaum (1944). After him are Tommy Dorsey (1905), Jennifer Lee (1971), John Carlos (1945), Reginald VelJohnson (1952), Robert M. Pirsig (1928), and George Shultz (1920).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, David Janssen ranks 1,165. Before him are Linda Harrison (1945), Rob Lowe (1964), Susan Kohner (1936), Jimmy Smits (1955), Richard Roundtree (1942), and Nancy Kelly (1921). After him are Reginald VelJohnson (1952), Tom Atkins (1935), Lana Wood (1946), Sean Astin (1971), Ann Morgan Guilbert (1928), and Sandahl Bergman (1951).

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