ACTOR

Dawn Wells

1938 - 2020

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Dawn Elberta Wells (October 18, 1938 – December 30, 2020) was an American actress. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dawn Wells has received more than 7,148,942 page views. Her biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Dawn Wells is the 7,189th most popular actor (down from 6,668th in 2019), the 10,606th most popular biography from United States (down from 9,923rd in 2019) and the 3,321st most popular American Actor.

Dawn Wells if famous for playing Mary Ann Summers on the CBS sitcom Gilligan's Island.

Memorability Metrics

  • 7.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 42.85

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.28

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.28

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dawn Wells ranks 7,189 out of 13,578. Before her are Thora Birch, Marwan Kenzari, Adele Neuhauser, Gladys Brockwell, Stanislas Merhar, and Harold J. Stone. After her are Christian Meier, Haji, Pip Torrens, Barry Keoghan, Antonia Thomas, and Samuel S. Hinds.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Dawn Wells ranks 546. Before her are Indira Nath, Neville Lederle, Wiesław Maniak, Abel Laudonio, Napoleon Chagnon, and Terry Wogan. After her are Peter Jennings, Sultan Rahi, Salvatore Morale, Achim Müller, Robert Hughes, and Nikolai Manoshin. Among people deceased in 2020, Dawn Wells ranks 665. Before her are Hasan Muratović, Michel Roux, Michael Robinson, Bhanu Athaiya, Kumiko Okae, and Gregory Areshian. After her are Rudi Hoffmann, John Prine, Vidin Apostolov, Bryan Sykes, Owen Arthur, and Millie Small.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dawn Wells ranks 10,606 out of 20,380. Before her are Thora Birch (1982), Jim Starlin (1949), Gladys Brockwell (1893), David McCullough (1933), Maxine Kumin (1925), and Harold J. Stone (1913). After her are Roy Bittan (1949), Andrew Hill (1931), Louis Kuehn (1901), Christine Korsgaard (1952), June Christy (1925), and Kathy Ellis (1946).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Dawn Wells ranks 3,321. Before her are Virginia Davis (1918), Fred Clark (1914), Bridgette Wilson (1973), Thora Birch (1982), Gladys Brockwell (1893), and Harold J. Stone (1913). After her are Samuel S. Hinds (1875), Peter Horton (1953), Billy Brown (1970), Erik King (1963), Jason Earles (1977), and Donny Osmond (1957).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Town That Dreaded Sundown
Helen Reed
When two young lovers are savagely beaten and tortured on a back country road in Texarkana, local police are baffled and must find "the Phantom Killer" before he can kill again.
Dec 24o 19765.8 / 10
The Invaders
Eileen Brown
The Invaders, alien beings from a dying planet. Their destination: the Earth. Their purpose: to make it their world. David Vincent has seen them, for him it began one lost night on a lonely country road, looking for a shortcut that he never found. It began with a closed deserted diner, and a man too long without sleep to continue his journey. It began with the landing of a craft from another galaxy. Now, David Vincent knows that the Invaders are here, that they have taken human form. Somehow he must convince a disbelieving world that the nightmare has already begun.
6.8 / 10
Gilligan's Island
Mary Ann Summers
The slapstick adventures of hapless Gilligan, long-suffering Skipper and their gang of mismatched castaways, all stranded on an uncharted desert isle after their tiny ship hit stormy weather.
7.5 / 10