ACTOR

Hugh Griffith

1912 - 1980

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Hugh Emrys Griffith (30 May 1912 – 14 May 1980) was a Welsh actor. Described by BFI Screenonline as a "wild-eyed, formidable character player", Griffith appeared in over 100 theatre, film, and television productions in a career that spanned over 40 years. He was the second-ever Welsh-born actor to win an Academy Award (following Ray Milland for The Lost Weekend), winning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar for his role in Ben-Hur (1959), with an additional nomination for Tom Jones (1963). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hugh Griffith has received more than 864,190 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Hugh Griffith is the 1,025th most popular actor (up from 1,103rd in 2019), the 1,116th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,233rd in 2019) and the 146th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 860k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.25

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Hugh Griffiths by language

Over the past year Hugh Griffith has had the most page views in the with 102,081 views, followed by Spanish (20,851), and German (14,533). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (80.79%), Finnish (66.58%), and Bengali (63.23%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Hugh Griffith ranks 1,025 out of 13,578. Before him are Djimon Hounsou, Lena Olin, Chadwick Boseman, Sydney Chaplin, Clara Bow, and Armen Dzhigarkhanyan. After him are Elizabeth Montgomery, Youn Yuh-jung, Libuše Šafránková, Jim Caviezel, Bill Pullman, and Taron Egerton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Hugh Griffith ranks 82. Before him are Princess Caroline-Mathilde of Denmark, Chaïm Perelman, Kamala Sohonie, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Jacques Ellul, and Frank Oppenheimer. After him are Salah al-Din al-Bitar, José Ferrer, Michel Debré, Axel Springer, Marina Raskova, and Nereo Rocco. Among people deceased in 1980, Hugh Griffith ranks 69. Before him are Ludwig Guttmann, Filipp Golikov, Nadezhda Mandelstam, Fabian von Schlabrendorff, Seretse Khama, and Winifred Wagner. After him are Tex Avery, Ernő Gerő, Salah al-Din al-Bitar, Muhammad Baqir al-Sadr, Friedrich Hossbach, and Ernst Busch.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Griffith ranks 1,116 out of 8,785. Before him are Harriet Taylor Mill (1807), James Meade (1907), Colin Dexter (1930), Frederic Leighton (1830), Sydney Chaplin (1885), and Colin McRae (1968). After him are Henry Royce (1863), Joseph Wright of Derby (1734), Charles Spearman (1863), Samuel Bellamy (1689), Bob Paisley (1919), and Johannes de Sacrobosco (1195).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Hugh Griffith ranks 146. Before him are Dirk Bogarde (1921), Honor Blackman (1925), Helen McCrory (1968), Patrick Macnee (1922), Brenda Blethyn (1946), and Sydney Chaplin (1885). After him are Taron Egerton (1989), Idris Elba (1972), Kiefer Sutherland (1966), Keira Knightley (1985), Daniel Radcliffe (1989), and Frances Fisher (1952).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Canterbury Tales
Sir January
Glimpses of Chaucer penning his famous work are sprinkled through this re-enactment of several of his stories.
Sep 2o 19726.317 / 10
Ben-Hur
Scheich Ildirim
In 25 AD, Judah Ben-Hur, a Jew in ancient Judea, opposes the occupying Roman empire. Falsely accused by a Roman childhood friend-turned-overlord of trying to kill the Roman governor, he is put into slavery and his mother and sister are taken away as prisoners.
Nov 18o 19597.883 / 10
How to Steal a Million
Charles Bonnet
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
Jul 13o 19667.471 / 10