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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 882,569 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Hugh Griffith is the 1,105th most popular actor (down from 824th in 2019), the 1,237th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 1,014th in 2019) and the 162nd most popular British Actor.

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  • 880k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.36

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Hugh Griffith ranks 1,105 out of 9,996. Before him are Eddie Redmayne, Sofía Vergara, Hou Hsiao-hsien, Clara Bow, Barbara Eden, and Tim Allen. After him are Lyudmila Gurchenko, Nino Manfredi, Tom Hulce, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, Joan Plowright, and Basil Rathbone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Hugh Griffith ranks 85. Before him are Lady Bird Johnson, Woody Guthrie, Chaïm Perelman, Arne Næss, Richard Brooks, and Sohn Kee-chung. After him are Jacques Ellul, Shoichi Nishimura, Perry Como, Philibert Tsiranana, Jean Améry, and Jiří Trnka. Among people deceased in 1980, Hugh Griffith ranks 71. Before him are Filipp Golikov, Yigal Allon, Tex Avery, Kazimierz Kuratowski, John Mauchly, and Tôn Đức Thắng. After him are Pascual Jordan, Ida Kamińska, Ernst Busch, Friedrich Hossbach, Toyen, and Masayoshi Ōhira.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Hugh Griffith ranks 1,237 out of 7,765. Before him are Victoria Beckham (1974), Sir Henry Rawlinson, 1st Baronet (1810), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), Alfred, Hereditary Prince of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha (1874), Richard J. Roberts (1943), and Carol Reed (1906). After him are Joan Plowright (1929), Alexander I of Scotland (1078), John Nettles (1943), Catherine Eddowes (1842), Martin Frobisher (1535), and Andy Whitfield (1971).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Hugh Griffith ranks 162. Before him are Clive Owen (1964), David Warner (1941), Keira Knightley (1985), Jason Isaacs (1963), Vinnie Jones (1965), and Eddie Redmayne (1982). After him are Joan Plowright (1929), John Nettles (1943), Andy Whitfield (1971), Scott Adkins (1976), David Thewlis (1963), and David Prowse (1935).

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