ACTOR

Don Knotts

1924 - 2006

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Jesse Donald Knotts (July 21, 1924 – February 24, 2006) was an American actor and comedian. He is widely known for his role as Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife on the 1960s sitcom The Andy Griffith Show, for which he earned five Emmy Awards.: 18  He also played Ralph Furley on the sitcom Three's Company from 1979 to 1984. He starred in multiple comedic films, including leading roles in The Incredible Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Don Knotts has received more than 10,755,315 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 53 in 2019). Don Knotts is the 4,138th most popular actor (up from 4,300th in 2019), the 6,124th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,462nd in 2019) and the 1,861st most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.85

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Don Knotts ranks 4,138 out of 13,578. Before him are Mare Winningham, Will Rogers, Kenan İmirzalıoğlu, Jennifer Saunders, Toshiko Fujita, and Charles Fleischer. After him are Kerem Bürsin, Elizabeth Berkley, Warren Clarke, Marion Lorne, Jane March, and Nikolai Burlyayev.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Don Knotts ranks 305. Before him are Alexander Esenin-Volpin, Valerio Bacigalupo, Kenny Dorham, Kurt Furgler, Heinz Müller, and Ranasinghe Premadasa. After him are Roger Marche, Val Avery, Attilio Giovannini, János Starker, Rafael Iglesias, and Billy Barty. Among people deceased in 2006, Don Knotts ranks 219. Before him are Karl Hugo Strunz, Tihomir Ognjanov, Lou Rawls, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Oskar Pastior, and S. Yizhar. After him are Runer Jonsson, Zdravko Rajkov, Said Mohamed Djohar, Hilde Domin, Betty Curtis, and Gene Pitney.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Don Knotts ranks 6,124 out of 20,380. Before him are Grace Bumbry (1937), Arsenio Hall (1956), Mare Winningham (1959), Will Rogers (1879), Hoagy Carmichael (1899), and Charles Fleischer (1950). After him are Sandra Brown (1948), Elizabeth Berkley (1972), David Mamet (1947), Marion Lorne (1883), Morris Louis (1912), and Mike Bloomfield (1943).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Don Knotts ranks 1,861. Before him are Meg Tilly (1960), Kitty Winn (1944), Arsenio Hall (1956), Mare Winningham (1959), Will Rogers (1879), and Charles Fleischer (1950). After him are Elizabeth Berkley (1972), Marion Lorne (1883), Lou Costello (1906), Kirsten Vangsness (1972), Doug McClure (1935), and Neal McDonough (1966).

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Television and Movie Roles

Chicken Little
Mayor Turkey Lurkey (voice)
When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken.
Nov 4o 20055.892 / 10
Pleasantville
TV Repairman
Geeky teenager David and his popular twin sister, Jennifer, get sucked into the black-and-white world of a 1950s TV sitcom called "Pleasantville," and find a world where everything is peachy keen all the time. But when Jennifer's modern attitude disrupts Pleasantville's peaceful but boring routine, she literally brings color into its life.
Sep 17o 19987.3 / 10
Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Wheely Applegate
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
Jun 24o 19775.9 / 10