ACTOR

Ed Lauter

1938 - 2013

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Edward Matthew Lauter Jr. ( LAW-tər; October 30, 1938 – October 16, 2013) was an American actor and stand-up comedian. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ed Lauter has received more than 1,788,528 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Ed Lauter is the 628th most popular actor (up from 1,051st in 2019), the 1,156th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,899th in 2019) and the 311th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ed Lauter ranks 628 out of 13,578. Before him are Shelley Winters, Steve Reeves, Gena Rowlands, Jeremy Renner, Vincent Price, and Tom Berenger. After him are Richard Barthelmess, Jennifer Jones, Rachel Weisz, Ian McDiarmid, Gong Li, and Shia LaBeouf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1938, Ed Lauter ranks 63. Before him are Joyce Carol Oates, Brian Dennehy, Marcello Gandini, István Szabó, Dean Reed, and Bounnhang Vorachith. After him are Jerry West, Jerzy Skolimowski, Leiji Matsumoto, Wim Kok, Mamadou Tandja, and Carlos Bilardo. Among people deceased in 2013, Ed Lauter ranks 50. Before him are James Gandolfini, Lawrence Klein, John Cornforth, James M. Buchanan, Nagisa Oshima, and Richard Matheson. After him are Chinua Achebe, Viktor Kulikov, Manfred Rommel, Ovadia Yosef, Tadeusz Mazowiecki, and Gyula Horn.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ed Lauter ranks 1,156 out of 20,380. Before him are Vincent Price (1911), Stan Getz (1927), Harrison Schmitt (1935), Tom Berenger (1949), Vannevar Bush (1890), and F. Sherwood Rowland (1927). After him are Richard Barthelmess (1895), Jennifer Jones (1919), Gina Haspel (1956), Richard Winters (1918), Lloyd Austin (1953), and Shia LaBeouf (1986).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Ed Lauter ranks 311. Before him are Shelley Winters (1920), Steve Reeves (1926), Gena Rowlands (1930), Jeremy Renner (1971), Vincent Price (1911), and Tom Berenger (1949). After him are Richard Barthelmess (1895), Jennifer Jones (1919), Shia LaBeouf (1986), Anjelica Huston (1951), Lisa Kudrow (1963), and William Fichtner (1956).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Artist
Peppy's Butler
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Oct 12o 20117.456 / 10
The Number 23
Father Sebastian
Walter Sparrow is an animal control officer that becomes obsessed with a mysterious book that seems to be based on his own life. As soon as he opens the book, he notices strange parallels between what he reads and what he's experienced. But now he's worried that a fictional murder might materialize.
Feb 23o 20076.412 / 10
Cujo
Joe Camber
A friendly St. Bernard named "Cujo" contracts rabies and conducts a reign of terror on a small American town.
Aug 10o 19836.1 / 10