ACTOR

Donald O'Connor

1925 - 2003

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Donald David Dixon Ronald O'Connor (August 28, 1925 – September 27, 2003) was an American dancer, singer and actor. He came to fame in a series of films in which he co-starred, in succession, with Gloria Jean, Peggy Ryan, and Francis the Talking Mule. O'Connor was born into a vaudeville family, where he learned to dance, sing, play comedy, and perform slapstick. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Donald O'Connor has received more than 3,140,702 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Donald O'Connor is the 1,819th most popular actor (down from 1,096th in 2019), the 2,993rd most popular biography from United States (down from 1,982nd in 2019) and the 836th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.91

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Donald O'Connor ranks 1,819 out of 13,578. Before him are Jacqueline Andere, Peg Entwistle, Stuart Whitman, Joel Grey, Mary Astor, and Barbara Valentin. After him are Marcia Gay Harden, Raymond Burr, Peter Lawford, Peter Vaughan, Claude Akins, and Rosa Albach-Retty.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, Donald O'Connor ranks 153. Before him are Klaus Roth, Silvana Pampanini, Giovanni Spadolini, Katherine MacGregor, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, and Ana María Matute. After him are Olof Thunberg, Ahmad Shamlou, Eleonora Rossi Drago, Rabah Bitat, Mario Merz, and John Cocke. Among people deceased in 2003, Donald O'Connor ranks 106. Before him are Marie Trintignant, Anita Mui, Martha Scott, Khieu Ponnary, Jaba Ioseliani, and Neil Postman. After him are Charles Berlitz, Foday Sankoh, Robert Palmer, Rubén González, Lothar Emmerich, and Karl Kling.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Donald O'Connor ranks 2,993 out of 20,380. Before him are Alfred Newman (1900), Ronald Inglehart (1934), Mary Astor (1906), Charles M. Schulz (1922), Jeff Porcaro (1954), and Gordon Cooper (1927). After him are Marcia Gay Harden (1959), Hannibal Hamlin (1809), Elihu Root (1845), Ben Wallace (1974), Bruce Beutler (1957), and Claude Akins (1926).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Donald O'Connor ranks 836. Before him are Bruce Campbell (1958), Joe Turkel (1927), Jensen Ackles (1978), Stuart Whitman (1928), Joel Grey (1932), and Mary Astor (1906). After him are Marcia Gay Harden (1959), Claude Akins (1926), Matthew Modine (1959), Abe Vigoda (1921), Sydne Rome (1951), and Esther Williams (1921).

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Television and Movie Roles

Singin' in the Rain
Cosmo Brown
In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.
Apr 9o 19528.2 / 10
Toys
Kenneth Zevo
Leslie Zevo is a fun-loving inventor who must save his late father's toy factory from his evil uncle, Leland, a war-mongering general who rules the operation with an iron fist and builds weapons disguised as toys.
Dec 18o 19925.265 / 10
Francis
Peter Stirling
The truthful soldier Stirling didn't know how to lie about his source of information, the talking army Mule, Francis, so he was treated as a lunatic and led to one after another hilarious situations, where the mule was the only one that appeared in his right mind. In the process of all this, the mule assisted in uncovering a spy, Mareen, who pretended to be lost among the jungles, but was actually...
Feb 8o 19505.5 / 10