ACTOR

Donatas Banionis

1924 - 2014

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Donatas Banionis (28 April 1924 – 4 September 2014) was a Soviet and Lithuanian stage and film actor and theatre director. He has more than 80 credited roles in cinema and is best known for his performance in the lead role of Tarkovsky's Solaris as Kris Kelvin. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Donatas Banionis has received more than 180,680 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Donatas Banionis is the 1,788th most popular actor (up from 1,859th in 2019), the 66th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 62nd in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Actor.

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  • 180k

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  • 55.02

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.29

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Donatas Banionis ranks 1,788 out of 13,578. Before him are Diane Cilento, Silvana Pampanini, Rebecca De Mornay, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Claude Rich, and Anthony Quayle. After him are Tatiana Samoilova, Jeffrey Tambor, Martha Scott, Shera Danese, Katie Holmes, and Lisa Edelstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Donatas Banionis ranks 144. Before him are George Mikan, Charles Bachman, Lefter Küçükandonyadis, Karlheinz Deschner, Carlo Bergonzi, and Margit Sandemo. After him are William Auld, Grégoire Kayibanda, Shintaro Abe, S. N. Goenka, M. Karunanidhi, and Luigi Musso. Among people deceased in 2014, Donatas Banionis ranks 134. Before him are Cristina Deutekom, Karlheinz Deschner, Gloria Leonard, Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Lorna Wing, and Carlo Bergonzi. After him are Tatiana Samoilova, Ana María Matute, Nicholas Romanov, Prince of Russia, Dezső Novák, Gerd Albrecht, and Henning Carlsen.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Donatas Banionis ranks 66 out of 328. Before him are Antoni Radziwiłł (1775), Bruno Abakanowicz (1852), Audrys Bačkis (1937), Joseph Klausner (1874), Antanas Merkys (1887), and Laurence Harvey (1928). After him are Kazimira Prunskienė (1943), Ingrida Šimonytė (1974), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz (1883), George Maciunas (1931), and Rolandas Paksas (1956).

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Among ACTORS In Lithuania

Among actors born in Lithuania, Donatas Banionis ranks 1. After him are Petr Shelokhonov (1929), Jacques Sernas (1925), Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (1963), Regimantas Adomaitis (1937), Cornell Borchers (1925), Vasily Kachalov (1875), Juozas Budraitis (1940), and Agnia Ditkovskyte (1988).

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Television and Movie Roles

Solaris
Kris Kelvin
A psychologist is sent to a space station orbiting a planet called Solaris to investigate the death of a doctor and the mental problems of cosmonauts on the station. He soon discovers that the water on the planet is a type of brain which brings out repressed memories and obsessions.
Mar 20o 19727.8 / 10
Goya: Or the Hard Way to Enlightenment
Goya
As a painter in the court of King Carlos IV, Goya has attained wealth and reputation. He believes in King and Church, yet he is also a Spaniard who dearly loves his people. This contradiction presents him with a dilemma.
Sep 15o 19715.4 / 10
The Dead Season
Konstantin Ladeinikov
Soviet spy Ladeynikov learns that in one of the pharmaceutical centers in a small resort town works a former German war criminal Dr. Hass, who is finishing the creation of a deadly chemical gas RH development of which he began during WW2 experimenting on war prisoners. Since Ladeynikov doesn't know Dr. Hass's appearance, Soviet intelligence recruits an actor, Ivan Savushkin, who during the war escaped from a prison camp where Hass was testing his gas. Together they must identify and stop him before he finishes and unleashes his weapon of mass destruction.
Dec 20o 19685.2 / 10