ACTOR

Gene Barry

1919 - 2009

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Gene Barry (born Eugene Klass, June 14 , 1919 – December 9, 2009) was an American stage, screen, and television actor and singer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gene Barry has received more than 2,113,443 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia. Gene Barry is the 3,310th most popular actor (down from 1,922nd in 2019), the 4,977th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,196th in 2019) and the 1,484th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 23

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.40

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gene Barry ranks 3,310 out of 13,578. Before him are Paco Tous, Gabriel Macht, Constance Towers, Sofia Boutella, Marsha Mason, and Stefania Casini. After him are Nicol Williamson, Clarence Nash, Franco Fabrizi, Tom Hollander, Herbert Ross, and Joely Richardson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Gene Barry ranks 193. Before him are Carole Landis, Hans Klenk, Lennie Tristano, Michèle Arnaud, Karl H. Pribram, and Robert Pinget. After him are Lawrence Tierney, Nehemiah Persoff, Irmgard Seefried, Mohammed Karim Lamrani, Eileen Heckart, and Polina Gelman. Among people deceased in 2009, Gene Barry ranks 186. Before him are Marilyn French, Venetia Burney, Hans Klenk, Riccardo Cassin, Péter Bacsó, and Edward Woodward. After him are Henry Gibson, Willem Johan Kolff, Shi Pei Pu, Charlie Mariano, Peter Shirayanagi, and Paul Naschy.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gene Barry ranks 4,977 out of 20,380. Before him are Sonny Stitt (1924), Gabriel Macht (1972), Asia Carrera (1973), Constance Towers (1933), Marsha Mason (1942), and Eugene Sledge (1923). After him are Rita Coolidge (1945), Clarence Nash (1904), James Rosenquist (1933), Herbert Ross (1927), Brie Larson (1989), and George Read (1733).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Gene Barry ranks 1,484. Before him are Rockmond Dunbar (1974), Eric Bogosian (1953), Tracy Pollan (1960), Gabriel Macht (1972), Constance Towers (1933), and Marsha Mason (1942). After him are Clarence Nash (1904), Herbert Ross (1927), Brie Larson (1989), Ruth Roman (1922), Matt Bomer (1977), and Bonnie Bartlett (1929).

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Television and Movie Roles

War of the Worlds
Grandfather
Ray Ferrier is a divorced dockworker and less-than-perfect father. Soon after his ex-wife and her new husband drop off his teenage son and young daughter for a rare weekend visit, a strange and powerful lightning storm touches down.
Jun 28o 20056.51 / 10
The War of the Worlds
Dr. Clayton Forrester
The residents of a small town are excited when a flaming meteor lands in the hills, until they discover it is the first of many transport devices from Mars bringing an army of invaders invincible to any man-made weapon, even the atomic bomb.
Aug 13o 19536.818 / 10
The 27th Day
Jonathan Clark
Five individuals from five nations, including the USA, USSR, and China, suddenly find themselves on an alien saucer, where an alien gives each a container holding three capsules. The alien explains that no power on earth can open a given container except a mental command from the person to whom it is given, then anyone may take a capsule and, by speaking a latitude and longitude at it, cause instant death to all within a given radius: thus each of the five has been provided with the power of life and death. Then, they are given 27 days to decide whether to use the capsules, and returned to the places from which each one came...
Jan 7o 19576.2 / 10