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Dick Clark

1929 - 2012

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Richard Wagstaff Clark (November 30, 1929 – April 18, 2012) was an American television and radio personality and television producer who hosted American Bandstand from 1956 to 1989. He also hosted five incarnations of the Pyramid game show from 1973 to 1988 and Dick Clark's New Year's Rockin' Eve, which broadcast New Year's Eve celebrations in New York City's Times Square. As host of American Bandstand, Clark introduced rock and roll to many Americans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dick Clark has received more than 4,545,075 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Dick Clark is the 6,087th most popular actor (down from 6,024th in 2019), the 8,922nd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,989th in 2019) and the 2,783rd most popular American Actor.

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  • 4.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Dick Clark ranks 6,083 out of 13,578Before him are Colin Salmon, and Matthew Lewis. After him are Choi Jin-hyuk, Elsa Zylberstein, Ruth Hussey, Ella Hall, Ewen Bremner, Tamara Nosova, Katharine Cornell, Eleanor Boardman, Justus von Dohnányi, and Laura Flores.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Dick Clark ranks 457Before him are Józef Pińkowski, Mateja Matevski, Richard Dysart, Marianna Nagy, Michael D. Coe, and Pedro Nájera. After him are Jerzy Antczak, Lucille Teasdale-Corti, Velimir Valenta, Walter Schleger, Aulis Rytkönen, and Yozhef Betsa. Among people deceased in 2012, Dick Clark ranks 377Before him are Alan Cottrell, Margaret Mahy, Bernard Lovell, Susan Tyrrell, Vincenzo Consolo, and Ivan Calin. After him are Robert Sabatier, Frank Pierson, Norman Joseph Woodland, Joe South, Georg Leber, and J. J. C. Smart.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dick Clark ranks 8,922 out of 20,380Before him are Marie Osborne Yeats (1911), Tennessee Ernie Ford (1919), Robert S. Langer (1948), Alice Marble (1913), Eddie Floyd (1937), and Daniel Pearl (1963). After him are Anita Bryant (1940), Steve Wynn (1942), Steve Miner (1951), Eleanor Garatti (1909), Walter Becker (1950), and Regina Resnik (1922).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Dick Clark ranks 2,782Before him are Bruce Bennett (1906), Patrick Fabian (1964), Priscilla Dean (1896), Aubrey Plaza (1984), and Marie Osborne Yeats (1911). After him are Ruth Hussey (1911), Ella Hall (1896), Eleanor Boardman (1898), Richard Long (1927), Annette Funicello (1942), Jared Martin (1941), and Bronson Pinchot (1959).

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