ACTOR

Edmund Gwenn

1877 - 1959

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Edmund Gwenn (born Edmund John Kellaway; 26 September 1877 – 6 September 1959) was an English actor. On film, he is best remembered for his role as Kris Kringle in the Christmas film Miracle on 34th Street (1947), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the corresponding Golden Globe Award. He received a second Golden Globe and another Academy Award nomination for the comedy film Mister 880 (1950). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edmund Gwenn has received more than 1,318,252 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 41 in 2019). Edmund Gwenn is the 3,034th most popular actor (down from 2,652nd in 2019), the 2,575th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,394th in 2019) and the 365th most popular British Actor.

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  • 1.3M

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  • 51.31

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.03

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Edmund Gwenn ranks 3,034 out of 13,578. Before him are Bob Crane, Maude Adams, Gustav Knuth, Flora Finch, Hilda Bernard, and Park Seo-joon. After him are Kim Hye-soo, Marie Dressler, Colleen Dewhurst, Patti LuPone, Agostina Belli, and Ana Martín.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Edmund Gwenn ranks 105. Before him are Otto Herschmann, William Hope Hodgson, Joanni Perronet, Luigi Maglione, Giuseppe Volpi, and Mordechai Gebirtig. After him are Elin Pelin, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, Lewis Terman, Josephine Hull, Maurice Farman, and Vladimir Gardin. Among people deceased in 1959, Edmund Gwenn ranks 99. Before him are Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, Kafū Nagai, Ion Gigurtu, Aleksandr Khinchin, Charles Vidor, and Kazimierz Bein. After him are Erhard Schmidt, Galaktion Tabidze, Alfonso Reyes, Ernst Fast, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, and Max Gerson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Edmund Gwenn ranks 2,575 out of 8,785. Before him are Bernie Marsden (1951), Bryan Robson (1957), I. A. Richards (1893), Simon Phillips (1957), Albert, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein (1869), and Flora Finch (1867). After him are Patrick Gordon (1635), Tom Finney (1922), Paul Bernays (1888), Paul Nurse (1949), Jon Finch (1942), and Jack Greenwell (1884).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Edmund Gwenn ranks 365. Before him are John Thaw (1942), Dominic Purcell (1970), Philip Stone (1924), Freddie Highmore (1992), Ben Miller (1966), and Flora Finch (1867). After him are Jon Finch (1942), Bob Anderson (1922), Flora Robson (1902), Vanessa Kirby (1988), Ronald Pickup (1940), and Dominic West (1969).

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