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John Neville

1925 - 2011

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John Reginald Neville, CM OBE (2 May 1925 – 19 November 2011) was an English actor and theatre director whose career spanned more than sixty years, he was renowned for his roles on both stage and screen in genres ranging from classical theatre to fantasy and science fiction. Neville was one of the young leading lights of the British theatre in the early 1950s, with he and contemporary and friend Richard Burton honing their crafts at The Old Vic, where over the course of five years they worked their way through the Shakespearean canon. Based on their performance styles and physicality, it was commented at the time that Burton was seen as the successor to Laurence Olivier, whereas Neville was seen as the natural successor to John Gielgud. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Neville has received more than 30,661 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). John Neville is the 3,177th most popular actor (down from 2,580th in 2019), the 2,662nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,361st in 2019) and the 379th most popular British Actor.

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  • 21

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  • 3.02

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  • 3.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, John Neville ranks 3,177 out of 13,578. Before her are Cammie King, Lee Jong-suk, Corinne Marchand, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Gisèle Casadesus, and Kelly Hu. After her are Gunnar Hansen, Can Yaman, Tom Noonan, Laurent Terzieff, Jonny Lee Miller, and Jeffrey Katzenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, John Neville ranks 245. Before her are Seymour Cray, Theodore Levitt, Lennart Bergelin, Philippe Jaccottet, Ernst Jandl, and Shehu Shagari. After her are Yuli Daniel, Ritwik Ghatak, Vojtěch Jasný, Néstor Rossi, José Freire Falcão, and Eugene Garfield. Among people deceased in 2011, John Neville ranks 206. Before her are Virgilio Noè, José Alencar, Juan Arza, Erhard Loretan, Shammi Kapoor, and Sargent Shriver. After her are Kiki Håkansson, Michael S. Hart, Takaji Mori, Shigeo Yaegashi, Patrick Leigh Fermor, and Vang Pao.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Neville ranks 2,662 out of 8,785. Before her are Andrew Bell (1753), Jamie Oliver (1975), George Macartney, 1st Earl Macartney (1737), William Wilson (1844), Ian Rankin (1960), and Elaine Paige (1948). After her are Rupert Brooke (1887), Alexander Dalrymple (1737), Jonny Lee Miller (1972), David Heyman (1961), Thomas Wyatt the Younger (1521), and Frederick W. Lanchester (1868).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, John Neville ranks 379. Before her are Peggy Ashcroft (1907), Cedric Hardwicke (1893), Richard Armitage (1971), Kelly Reilly (1977), Lesley-Anne Down (1954), and Dave Legeno (1963). After her are Jonny Lee Miller (1972), Gorden Kaye (1941), Mark Addy (1964), Rachel Ward (1957), Jimmy Gardner (1924), and Philip Jackson (1948).

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