ACTOR

James Dunn

1901 - 1967

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James Howard Dunn (November 2, 1901 – September 1, 1967), billed as Jimmy Dunn in his early career, was an American actor and vaudeville performer. The son of a New York stockbroker, he initially worked in his father's firm but was more interested in theater. He landed jobs as an extra in short films produced by Paramount Pictures in its Long Island studio, and also performed with several stock theater companies, culminating with playing the male lead in the 1929 Broadway musical Sweet Adeline. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Dunn has received more than 23,638 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). James Dunn is the 5,564th most popular actor (down from 4,983rd in 2019), the 8,133rd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,408th in 2019) and the 2,526th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 24k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.32

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, James Dunn ranks 5,564 out of 13,578. Before him are Andrea Martin, Kim Ha-neul, Linda Arvidson, Anita Louise, Fisher Stevens, and Anna Maria Alberghetti. After him are Grant Heslov, Sebastian Cabot, Lidia Wysocka, Park Eun-bin, Merna Kennedy, and Joan Shawlee.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, James Dunn ranks 280. Before him are Aleksandr Andronov, Marieluise Fleißer, László Németh, Hanns Seidel, Paolo Mazza, and Ivan Petrovsky. After him are Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Paul Fix, Joseph De Combe, Åke Borg, Mark Oliphant, and Whittaker Chambers. Among people deceased in 1967, James Dunn ranks 228. Before him are Charles Darrow, Mary Garden, Marie Noël, Paul Castanet, Francis Spellman, and Johan Falkberget. After him are Stanley Bruce, Hans Walter, Gaetano Martino, J. B. Lenoir, Max Taut, and Henry J. Kaiser.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Dunn ranks 8,133 out of 20,380. Before him are Anita Louise (1915), Fisher Stevens (1963), Frederick Muhlenberg (1750), Oliver Campbell (1871), Kesha (1987), and Judith Rich Harris (1938). After him are Grant Heslov (1963), Mike Mills (1958), Doug Liman (1965), Merna Kennedy (1908), Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858), and Flavor Flav (1959).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, James Dunn ranks 2,526. Before him are Mary Brian (1906), Donald Gibb (1954), Andrea Martin (1947), Linda Arvidson (1884), Anita Louise (1915), and Fisher Stevens (1963). After him are Grant Heslov (1963), Merna Kennedy (1908), Joan Shawlee (1926), Chris Owen (1980), Mike Farrell (1939), and Faith Domergue (1924).

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