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Dennis Farina

1944 - 2013

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Donaldo Gugliermo "Dennis" Farina (February 29, 1944 – July 22, 2013) was an American stage and film actor, who prior to his acting career worked as a Chicago police detective. Often typecast as a mobster or police officer, he is known for roles such as FBI Agent Jack Crawford in Manhunter, mobster Jimmy Serrano in the comedy Midnight Run, Ray "Bones" Barboni in Get Shorty, Cousin Avi in Snatch, and Walt Miller in New Girl. He starred on television as Lieutenant Mike Torello on Crime Story and as NYPD Detective Joe Fontana on Law & Order. From 2008 to 2010, he hosted and narrated the television program Unsolved Mysteries on Spike TV. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dennis Farina has received more than 4,723,716 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Dennis Farina is the 1,538th most popular actor (up from 1,793rd in 2019), the 2,651st most popular biography from United States (up from 3,122nd in 2019) and the 747th most popular American Actor.

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  • 4.7M

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  • 55.03

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.91

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.03

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dennis Farina ranks 1,538 out of 9,996Before him are Marcel Dalio, Pernilla August, Arlene Dahl, Ted Levine, Kristen Stewart, and Dyanne Thorne. After him are Hugh Keays-Byrne, Bo Derek, Nicoletta Braschi, Zendaya, Brenda Fricker, and Daniel Davis.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Dennis Farina ranks 183Before him are Steve Fossett, Sergei Belov, Adrian Smith, John Newcombe, Rosalía Mera, and Rick Davies. After him are Billy Cobham, Jürgen Grabowski, Kim Yong-il, Ton Koopman, Ronald Lauder, and Robert Powell. Among people deceased in 2013, Dennis Farina ranks 120Before him are Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Sergei Belov, Bruno Metsu, Hilary Koprowski, Rosalía Mera, and Dokka Umarov. After him are Nguyễn Khánh, Mariangela Melato, Aslan Usoyan, Bernadette Lafont, Bebo Valdés, and Mitja Ribičič.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dennis Farina ranks 2,651 out of 18,182Before him are Arlene Dahl (1925), Ted Levine (1957), August Derleth (1909), Kristen Stewart (1990), Howard Zinn (1922), and Dyanne Thorne (1936). After him are Bo Derek (1956), Zendaya (1996), Jerome Powell (1953), Clifford Brown (1930), Lew Wallace (1827), and Daniel Davis (1945).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Dennis Farina ranks 747Before him are Everett McGill (1945), Pam Grier (1949), Arlene Dahl (1925), Ted Levine (1957), Kristen Stewart (1990), and Dyanne Thorne (1936). After him are Bo Derek (1956), Zendaya (1996), Daniel Davis (1945), Keith Carradine (1949), Richard Beymer (1938), and Jeff Daniels (1955).

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