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Ian Charleson

1949 - 1990

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Ian Charleson (11 August 1949 – 6 January 1990) was a Scottish stage and film actor. He is best known internationally for his starring role as Olympic athlete and missionary Eric Liddell in the Oscar-winning 1981 film Chariots of Fire. He is also well known for his portrayal of Rev. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ian Charleson has received more than 1,320,666 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Ian Charleson is the 5,451st most popular actor (down from 5,321st in 2019), the 4,141st most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,116th in 2019) and the 668th most popular British Actor.

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  • 1.3M

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  • 44.18

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.68

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ian Charleson ranks 5,451 out of 9,996Before him are Matthew Lewis, Shabana Azmi, Jesse Plemons, Christian Camargo, Geraldine Somerville, and Regina Hall. After him are Natalya Andreychenko, Jaime Pressly, Julián Gil, Dimple Kapadia, Talulah Riley, and Michael Badalucco.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Ian Charleson ranks 484Before him are Anthony Denison, Patrick Kilpatrick, Mitsunori Fujiguchi, Robert Pickton, Irena Degutienė, and Mary Roos. After him are Raoul Cédras, John Shea, Gennady Novitsky, Ricardo Londoño, Zlatko Mateša, and Rafael Ángel Calderón Fournier. Among people deceased in 1990, Ian Charleson ranks 232Before him are Margaret Lockwood, Ina Balin, Omero Tognon, Sadi Irmak, Dries van der Lof, and Georges de Rham. After him are Ryan White, Xosé María Díaz Castro, Boris Piotrovsky, Ramón Piñeiro López, Edward Binns, and Arno Arthur Wachmann.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ian Charleson ranks 4,141 out of 7,765Before him are Douglas Slocombe (1913), Joseph Wedderburn (1882), Jacqueline Wilson (1945), Vincent Nichols (1945), Richard Gunn (1871), and Val McDermid (1955). After him are John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792), Ben Nicholson (1894), Princess Elizabeth of Great Britain (1741), Frank Bruno (1961), Talulah Riley (1985), and Princess Sophia of Gloucester (1773).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Ian Charleson ranks 668Before him are Clive Dunn (1920), David Hewlett (1968), Indira Varma (1973), Mark Lester (1958), Roger Allam (1953), and Matthew Lewis (1989). After him are Talulah Riley (1985), Maisie Williams (1997), Samantha Morton (1977), Christian Coulson (1978), Kathryn Beaumont (1938), and Bradley James (1983).

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