ACTOR

Desi Arnaz

1917 - 1986

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Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha III (March 2, 1917 – December 2, 1986), known as Desi Arnaz, was a Cuban actor, musician and bandleader. He played Ricky Ricardo on the American television sitcom I Love Lucy, in which he co-starred with his wife Lucille Ball. Arnaz and Ball are credited as the innovators of the syndicated rerun, which they pioneered with the I Love Lucy series.Arnaz and Lucille Ball co-founded and ran the television production company called Desilu Productions, originally to market I Love Lucy to television networks. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Desi Arnaz has received more than 13,688,641 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Desi Arnaz is the 3,956th most popular actor (down from 2,022nd in 2019), the 101st most popular biography from Cuba (down from 57th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Cuban Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 14M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.11

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Desi Arnazs by language

Over the past year Desi Arnaz has had the most page views in the with 1,097,305 views, followed by Spanish (26,122), and German (9,526). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are (451.16%), Simple English (138.08%), and Egyptian Arabic (112.87%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Desi Arnaz ranks 3,956 out of 13,578. Before him are Kathy Najimy, Marie-Anne Chazel, Penn Badgley, Una Stubbs, Ed Helms, and Kate del Castillo. After him are Kristin Kreuk, Lizabeth Scott, Michael Ball, Chloë Sevigny, Robert Pine, and Tom Moore.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Desi Arnaz ranks 221. Before him are Ernesto Alonso, Miroslav Brozović, Laurindo Almeida, Joshua Nkomo, Marion Donovan, and Fritz Honegger. After him are Babiker Awadalla, José Perácio, Li Rui, Bagrat Shinkuba, Yahya Petra of Kelantan, and Ossie Davis. Among people deceased in 1986, Desi Arnaz ranks 177. Before him are Marcel Arland, Heinz Strehl, Jagjivan Ram, Ronald McNair, Pasquale Festa Campanile, and Jaroslav Burgr. After him are Oldřich Lipský, John Kuck, Alicia Moreau de Justo, Michal Vičan, Guillermo Eizaguirre, and Floyd Gottfredson.

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In Cuba

Among people born in Cuba, Desi Arnaz ranks 101 out of 300. Before him are Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1928), Calixto García (1839), Aleida Guevara (1960), Mariela Castro (1962), Federico Laredo Brú (1875), and Carlos Prío Socarrás (1903). After him are Paquito D'Rivera (1948), Mireya Luis (1967), Héctor Socorro (1912), Iván Pedroso (1972), Michael Aris (1946), and Juan García Rodríguez (1948).

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Among ACTORS In Cuba

Among actors born in Cuba, Desi Arnaz ranks 9. Before him are Ana de Armas (1988), Steven Bauer (1956), María Conchita Alonso (1957), Chelo Alonso (1933), Ninón Sevilla (1929), and William Levy (1980). After him are César Évora (1959), Mario Cimarro (1971), Tony Plana (1952), Millard Mitchell (1903), Oscar Nunez (1958), and Danay García (1984).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Escape Artist
Mayor Leon Quiñones
The young and self-confident Danny bluffs at the local police-station that he will escape from prison within an hour. What follows is a flashback showing his childhood with his uncle and aunt, who are 'vaudeville'-artists themselves.
May 28o 19826.1 / 10
I Love Lucy
Ricky Ricardo
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
7.976 / 10
The Long, Long Trailer
Nicky Collini
A newly wed couple, Tacy and Nicky, travel in a trailer for their honeymoon. The journey is a humorous one that could end up destroying their marriage.
Feb 19o 19546.83 / 10