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Fred Willard

1939 - 2020

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Frederic Charles Willard (September 18, 1933 – May 15, 2020) was an American actor and comedian. He is best known for his work with Christopher Guest in This Is Spinal Tap (1984), Waiting for Guffman (1996), Best in Show (2000), A Mighty Wind (2003), For Your Consideration (2006), and Mascots (2016), and for playing Ed Harken in the Anchorman films. He also appeared in films like Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999), American Wedding (2003) and WALL-E (2008). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fred Willard has received more than 8,053,303 page views. His biography is available in 41 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Fred Willard is the 1,224th most popular actor (down from 809th in 2019), the 2,175th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,520th in 2019) and the 592nd most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 8.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.63

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 41

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.47

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Fred Willard ranks 1,224 out of 9,996. Before him are Ken Takakura, Daniel Olbrychski, Shilpa Shetty, Ida Kamińska, Claude Brasseur, and Jack Warden. After him are Fatma Girik, Alyssa Milano, Tony Lip, Lisa Bonet, Amrish Puri, and Kim Hunter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Fred Willard ranks 114. Before him are Warda Al-Jazairia, Marco Bellocchio, Jānis Lūsis, Ali Mahdi Muhammad, Mark Margolis, and Seamus Heaney. After him are Neil Sedaka, Alexandros Panagoulis, Veruschka von Lehndorff, Michu Meszaros, Karel Brückner, and Joseph D. Pistone. Among people deceased in 2020, Fred Willard ranks 109. Before him are Abdul Halim Khaddam, Amadou Toumani Touré, Sergio Rossi, Jānis Lūsis, Nikolai Kapustin, and Claude Brasseur. After him are Rocky Johnson, Ivry Gitlis, Harry Gregg, Mamadou Tandja, Amfilohije Radović, and Georg Ratzinger.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Fred Willard ranks 2,175 out of 18,182. Before him are Pat Martino (1944), Kevin A. Lynch (1918), Nina Hartley (1959), Sam Loyd (1841), Jack Warden (1920), and Robert Smithson (1938). After him are Whitey Bulger (1929), Alyssa Milano (1972), Tony Lip (1930), Peter Agre (1949), Henry J. Heinz (1844), and Maria Mitchell (1818).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Fred Willard ranks 592. Before him are James Franco (1978), Gordon Scott (1926), Bridget Fonda (1964), Mark Margolis (1939), Stacy Keach (1941), and Jack Warden (1920). After him are Alyssa Milano (1972), Tony Lip (1930), Lisa Bonet (1967), Kim Hunter (1922), Victor Mature (1913), and Lee J. Cobb (1911).

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