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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 stage, film, and television 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 22,078 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). James Dunn is the 4,992nd most popular actor (up from 5,724th in 2019), the 7,423rd most popular biography from United States (up from 8,883rd in 2019) and the 2,335th most popular American Actor.

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  • 22k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.19

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, James Dunn ranks 4,992 out of 9,996. Before him are Inga Tidblad, Henry Lehrman, Anna Rita Del Piano, Kenneth More, Farida Jalal, and Desmond Harrington. After him are Natja Brunckhorst, Heather O'Rourke, Naseeruddin Shah, Kenyu Horiuchi, Julia Gutiérrez Caba, and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, James Dunn ranks 255. Before him are Modesto Denis, Paul Yü Pin, Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Dorothy Hansine Andersen, Åke Borg, and Inga Tidblad. After him are Frank Belknap Long, Erich Rademacher, Joseph Wendel, Bebe Daniels, Hans Drakenberg, and Mildred Dunnock. Among people deceased in 1967, James Dunn ranks 206. Before him are Sergey Gorodetsky, Bert Lahr, Fridrikh Ermler, Halina Poświatowska, Oliverio Girondo, and J. B. Lenoir. After him are Max Taut, Marcello Bertinetti, Pinto Colvig, Michael J. Adams, Donald Campbell, and Ulderico Sergo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Dunn ranks 7,423 out of 18,182. Before him are Michael Franks (1944), Harold D. Babcock (1882), Fred Saberhagen (1930), Johnny Burnette (1934), Desmond Harrington (1976), and Jeff Sessions (1946). After him are Louis Sachar (1954), Heather O'Rourke (1975), Jeff Mills (1963), Simon Guggenheim (1867), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (1975), and Charlene Tilton (1958).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, James Dunn ranks 2,335. Before him are Justin Long (1978), Catherine Oxenberg (1961), Terry Bradshaw (1948), Courtney Thorne-Smith (1967), Albert Salmi (1928), and Desmond Harrington (1976). After him are Heather O'Rourke (1975), Jesse Tyler Ferguson (1975), Charlene Tilton (1958), June Lockhart (1925), Ben Foster (1980), and Gwen Verdon (1925).

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