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George Arliss

1868 - 1946

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George Arliss (born Augustus George Andrews; 10 April 1868 – 5 February 1946) was an English actor, author, playwright, and filmmaker who found success in the United States. He was the first British actor to win an Academy Award – which he won for his performance as Victorian-era British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli in Disraeli (1929) – as well as the earliest-born actor of any category to win the honour. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Arliss has received more than 494,456 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia. George Arliss is the 2,260th most popular actor (down from 2,002nd in 2019), the 2,127th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,016th in 2019) and the 294th most popular British Actor.

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  • 3.53

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, George Arliss ranks 2,260 out of 9,996Before him are Adolphe Menjou, Tuba Büyüküstün, Tom Hollander, Neve Campbell, Yūsaku Matsuda, and Rick Hoffman. After him are Sonja Ziemann, Ann Miller, Jennifer Morrison, Ghita Nørby, Lois Smith, and Anne Buydens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, George Arliss ranks 101Before him are George Ellery Hale, Oskar Merikanto, Cai Yuanpei, Mihailo Petrović, Lauri Ingman, and Hovhannes Kajaznuni. After him are Prince Karl Anton of Hohenzollern, Alois Musil, Georgy Voronoy, Hugo Eckener, Josep Comas i Solà, and Ivan Regen. Among people deceased in 1946, George Arliss ranks 105Before him are Edmund Glaise-Horstenau, Louis Zutter, Benjamin I of Constantinople, Johannes Vares, Léon Gaumont, and Ahmad Kasravi. After him are Charlotte of Schaumburg-Lippe, Heinrich George, John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort, Duchess Jutta of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, Georg, Prince of Saxe-Meiningen, and Infanta Adelgundes, Duchess of Guimarães.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, George Arliss ranks 2,127 out of 7,765Before him are Tom Hollander (1967), Peter Frampton (1950), Prince Henri of Orléans (1867), Eadgifu of Wessex (null), Trevor Horn (1949), and Edwin Arnold (1832). After him are Hugh Despenser the younger (1287), Ephraim Chambers (1680), Joseph Whitworth (1803), Stephen Dillane (1957), Thomas Kyd (1558), and John Vanbrugh (1664).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, George Arliss ranks 294Before him are June Whitfield (1925), James Purefoy (1964), Mark Williams (1959), Barbara Steele (1937), Joseph Fiennes (1970), and Tom Hollander (1967). After him are Stephen Dillane (1957), Maurice Evans (1901), Robert Brown (1921), Murray Head (1946), Jamie Dornan (1982), and Toby Jones (1966).

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