ACTOR

Gary Coleman

1968 - 2010

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Gary Wayne Coleman (February 8, 1968 – May 28, 2010) was an American actor and comedian. Coleman was the highest-paid child actor on television throughout the late 1970s and 1980s. He was rated first on a list of VH1's "100 Greatest Kid Stars".Coleman was best known for playing the role of Arnold Jackson in the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes (1978–1986), which he reprised in numerous other television series such as Hello, Larry (1979), The Facts of Life (1979–1980) and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1996), among others. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gary Coleman has received more than 9,381,149 page views. His biography is available in 66 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 67 in 2019). Gary Coleman is the 2,725th most popular actor (up from 2,811th in 2019), the 4,244th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,440th in 2019) and the 1,237th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 9.4M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 66

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gary Colemen by language

Over the past year Gary Coleman has had the most page views in the with 967,379 views, followed by Spanish (123,459), and Italian (84,127). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (91.76%), Lombard (46.70%), and Papiamentu (44.73%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gary Coleman ranks 2,725 out of 13,578. Before him are Edward Furlong, Linda Fiorentino, Miyoshi Umeki, Hayley Atwell, John Williams, and Toby Jones. After him are Pat Benatar, Liselotte Pulver, Lolita Torres, Paul Shenar, Tania Mallet, and Claudio Brook.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Gary Coleman ranks 96. Before him are Oleg Deripaska, Talant Duyshebaev, Lila Downs, Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu, Martin Dahlin, and Aidan Gillen. After him are Karl Ove Knausgård, Évariste Ndayishimiye, Daniel Dae Kim, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Cuba Gooding Jr., and Ramush Haradinaj. Among people deceased in 2010, Gary Coleman ranks 174. Before him are Corneille Guillaume Beverloo, Zilda Arns, Alex Higgins, Magda Frank, Bobbejaan Schoepen, and Juan Carlos González. After him are Palle Huld, Iryna Melnykova, Fernando Riera, Huang Hua, Julien Guiomar, and Egon Klepsch.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gary Coleman ranks 4,244 out of 20,380. Before him are Aldo Leopold (1887), Imogen Cunningham (1883), Jeannette Rankin (1880), Fanny Bullock Workman (1859), Edward Furlong (1977), and Linda Fiorentino (1958). After him are Pat Benatar (1953), Sarah Goodridge (1788), John Paine (1870), Walter Short (1880), Carl Wilson (1946), and Gregory Jarvis (1944).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Gary Coleman ranks 1,237. Before him are Patrick Wayne (1939), John Kitzmiller (1913), Paul Wesley (1982), Stanley Kamel (1943), Edward Furlong (1977), and Linda Fiorentino (1958). After him are Pat Benatar (1953), Paul Shenar (1936), Beatrice Straight (1914), Roy Rogers (1911), Chris Hardwick (1971), and Connie Booth (1944).

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Television and Movie Roles

Dirty Work
Self
Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant.
Jun 12o 19986.139 / 10
The Simpsons
Gary Coleman (voice)
Set in Springfield, the average American town, the show focuses on the antics and everyday adventures of the Simpson family; Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie, as well as a virtual cast of thousands. Since the beginning, the series has been a pop culture icon, attracting hundreds of celebrities to guest star. The show has also made name for itself in its fearless satirical take on politics, media and American life in general.
8.009 / 10
Diff'rent Strokes
Arnold Jackson
The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly, for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett.
7.019 / 10