ACTOR

Jerry Orbach

1935 - 2004

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Jerome Bernard Orbach (October 20, 1935 – December 28, 2004) was an American actor and singer, described at the time of his death as "one of the last bona fide leading men of the Broadway musical and global celebrity on television" and a "versatile stage and film actor". Over his career he received a Tony Award and Screen Actors Guild Award as well as nominations for three Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award. Orbach's career began on the New York stage, both on and off-Broadway, where he created roles such as El Gallo in the original off-Broadway run of The Fantasticks (1960) where he was the first performer to sing that show's standard "Try to Remember". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jerry Orbach has received more than 6,349,088 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jerry Orbach is the 1,459th most popular actor (down from 1,261st in 2019), the 2,478th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,247th in 2019) and the 677th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.34

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.84

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Jerry Orbach ranks 1,459 out of 13,578. Before him are Emily Watson, Nino Castelnuovo, James Whitmore, Paul Bettany, Geraldine Page, and Dominique Pinon. After him are Jamie Foxx, Maria Riva, Elsa Lanchester, Frank Grillo, Jeff Daniels, and Aaron Eckhart.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Jerry Orbach ranks 120. Before him are Thomas Keneally, Azzedine Alaïa, Richard Kuklinski, Bruno Sammartino, Jan Saudek, and André Brink. After him are Jerry Fodor, Chaim Topol, Tsutomu Hata, Mohamed Choukri, Sergei Khrushchev, and Richard Brautigan. Among people deceased in 2004, Jerry Orbach ranks 86. Before him are Jean Rouch, Uta Hagen, Olga Ladyzhenskaya, Boris Trajkovski, Irina Press, and Miklós Fehér. After him are Shiing-Shen Chern, Russ Meyer, John Maynard Smith, Zenkō Suzuki, Anthony Steffen, and Mercedes McCambridge.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Jerry Orbach ranks 2,478 out of 20,380. Before him are Mimi Rogers (1956), Joseph Stilwell (1883), Eugene Nida (1914), Eric F. Wieschaus (1947), James Whitmore (1921), and Geraldine Page (1924). After him are Jamie Foxx (1967), Frank Grillo (1965), Terry Funk (1944), Paul Bowles (1910), David Lane (1938), and Jeff Daniels (1955).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Jerry Orbach ranks 677. Before him are Charles Durning (1923), Debra Winger (1955), Randolph Scott (1898), Mimi Rogers (1956), James Whitmore (1921), and Geraldine Page (1924). After him are Jamie Foxx (1967), Frank Grillo (1965), Jeff Daniels (1955), Aaron Eckhart (1968), Sela Ward (1956), and George Segal (1934).

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