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Gil Bellows

1967 - Today

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Gil Bellows (born June 28, 1967) is a Canadian actor, screenwriter, and director. He is best known for the roles of Tommy Williams in the 1994 movie The Shawshank Redemption, Billy Thomas in the Fox television series Ally McBeal (1997–2002), and CIA agent Matt Callan in the CBS television series The Agency (2001–2003). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gil Bellows has received more than 2,315,484 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Gil Bellows is the 6,370th most popular actor (down from 5,787th in 2019), the 527th most popular biography from Canada (down from 486th in 2019) and the 162nd most popular Canadian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 44.46

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.22

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.34

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Gil Bellows by language

Over the past year Gil Bellows has had the most page views in the with 319,902 views, followed by German (25,928), and French (17,710). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Swedish (33.91%), Portuguese (31.41%), and Russian (30.37%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Gil Bellows ranks 6,370 out of 13,578. Before him are Gina McKee, Pauline Chan Bo-Lin, Sterling Holloway, Elizabeth Gutiérrez, Yelena Safonova, and Saira Banu. After him are Guy Siner, Yang Mi, Kim Delaney, Elisabetta Canalis, Jacques Gamblin, and Dolly Haas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1967, Gil Bellows ranks 300. Before him are Cevdet Yılmaz, Uche Okechukwu, Mia Sara, Gabriele Muccino, Yılmaz Erdoğan, and Judd Apatow. After him are Oleg Tinkov, Judy Reyes, Brooke Smith, Collin Chou, Timur Vermes, and Alexander Volkov.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Gil Bellows ranks 527 out of 1,622. Before him are Nicholas Lea (1962), James Arthur (1944), Mark Strand (1934), Marcel Dionne (1951), Scotty Bowman (1933), and Patrick J. Adams (1981). After him are Chris Hadfield (1959), Sidney Olcott (1872), Christopher Heyerdahl (1963), Marie Avgeropoulos (1986), Todd McFarlane (1961), and Anne Dorval (1960).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Gil Bellows ranks 162. Before him are Emily VanCamp (1986), Stephen Amell (1981), Rachelle Lefevre (1979), Christy Chung (1970), Nicholas Lea (1962), and Patrick J. Adams (1981). After him are Christopher Heyerdahl (1963), Marie Avgeropoulos (1986), Anne Dorval (1960), James Tupper (1965), Sarah Polley (1979), and Erica Durance (1978).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Shawshank Redemption
Tommy
Framed in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.
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House at the End of the Street
Officer Bill Weaver
A mother and daughter move to a new town and find themselves living next door to a house where a young girl murdered her parents. When the daughter befriends the surviving son, she learns the story is far from over.
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
Chief Turner
Mill Valley, Pennsylvania, Halloween night, 1968. After playing a joke on a school bully, Stella and her friends decide to sneak into a supposedly haunted house that once belonged to the powerful Bellows family, unleashing dark forces that they will be unable to control.
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