ACTOR

Douglas Fairbanks

1883 - 1939

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Douglas Elton Fairbanks Sr. (born Douglas Elton Thomas Ullman; May 23, 1883 – December 12, 1939) was an American actor, screenwriter, director, and producer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Fairbanks has received more than 2,280,634 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Douglas Fairbanks is the 313th most popular actor (up from 448th in 2019), the 603rd most popular biography from United States (up from 920th in 2019) and the 169th most popular American Actor.

Douglas Fairbanks was an actor and producer who became a major star of the silent film era. He was best known for his swashbuckling roles in such films as The Mark of Zorro, Robin Hood, and The Thief of Bagdad.

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  • 73.54

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.29

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Douglas Fairbanks ranks 313 out of 10,030. Before him are Isabelle Adjani, Gene Kelly, Talia Shire, Bela Lugosi, Burt Reynolds, and Telly Savalas. After him are Ellen Burstyn, Deborah Kerr, Anna Karina, Laura Antonelli, Donald Pleasence, and William Shatner.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1883, Douglas Fairbanks ranks 30. Before him are Maurice Utrillo, Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy, Andrey Vyshinsky, Lon Chaney, Archduchess Elisabeth Marie of Austria, and Celâl Bayar. After him are Wang Jingwei, Norman Haworth, Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov, A. S. Neill, Peter Kürten, and Mohammed Nadir Shah. Among people deceased in 1939, Douglas Fairbanks ranks 12. Before him are Alphonse Mucha, W. B. Yeats, Joseph Roth, Eugen Bleuler, Werner von Fritsch, and Anton Makarenko. After him are Edward Sapir, Karl Radek, Philipp Scheidemann, Lucien Lévy-Bruhl, Matthias Sindelar, and Ferdinand von Lindemann.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Douglas Fairbanks ranks 603 out of 15,968. Before him are John Deere (1804), Margaret Keane (1927), Burt Reynolds (1936), Telly Savalas (1922), Oprah Winfrey (1954), and Joel Schumacher (1939). After him are Jim Jarmusch (1953), George Eastman (1854), Clyde Tombaugh (1906), Bill Russell (1934), Dolly Parton (1946), and Gwen Stefani (1969).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Douglas Fairbanks ranks 169. Before him are Reese Witherspoon (1976), Mia Farrow (1945), Gene Kelly (1912), Talia Shire (1946), Burt Reynolds (1936), and Telly Savalas (1922). After him are Ellen Burstyn (1932), Mickey Rooney (1920), F. Murray Abraham (1939), Alan Arkin (1934), Frances Farmer (1913), and Ali MacGraw (1939).

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