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John Richardson

1934 - 2021

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John Richardson (19 January 1934 – 5 January 2021) was an English actor who appeared in films from the late 1950s until the early 1990s. He was a male lead in Italian genre films, most notably Mario Bava's Black Sunday (1960) with Barbara Steele, but he was best known for playing the love interest of Ursula Andress in She (1965) and then of Raquel Welch in One Million Years B.C. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Richardson has received more than 46,672 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John Richardson is the 5,618th most popular actor (down from 4,243rd in 2019), the 4,208th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,381st in 2019) and the 641st most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 47k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.06

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of John Richardsons by language

Over the past year John Richardson has had the most page views in the with 8,832 views, followed by Russian (4,053), and English (3,275). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (113.01%), Finnish (56.04%), and Turkish (52.52%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, John Richardson ranks 5,618 out of 13,578. Before him are Diana Lynn, C. Thomas Howell, David Bennent, Gene Anthony Ray, Frank Whaley, and Giuliana Calandra. After him are Paul Fix, Reta Shaw, Clive Dunn, Zachary Levi, Michaela Schaffrath, and Pino Caruso.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, John Richardson ranks 417. Before him are Britt Strandberg, Giorgio Bassi, Robert Siatka, Yvonne Rainer, Nobuyuki Aihara, and Raymond Briggs. After him are Martín Pando, Pino Caruso, Tevfik Kış, Eladio Rojas, Roy Kinnear, and Corey Allen. Among people deceased in 2021, John Richardson ranks 472. Before him are Casimir Oyé-Mba, Peter Mark Richman, Michael Fisher, Orlando Martínez, Jan Jindra, and Viktor Putyatin. After him are Martín Pando, Jiří Čadek, Mark Eaton, Larry McMurtry, Evgeny Sveshnikov, and Antoninho.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Richardson ranks 4,208 out of 8,785. Before him are William Dobson (1610), Ray Thomas (1941), Raymond Briggs (1934), Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux (1778), Chad of Mercia (634), and Steven Moffat (1961). After him are Clive Dunn (1920), Robbie Fowler (1975), Robert Herrick (1591), Anita Roddick (1942), Kenneth Frampton (1930), and N. G. L. Hammond (1907).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, John Richardson ranks 641. Before him are Sebastian Cabot (1918), Margaret Leighton (1922), David Walliams (1971), Colin Baker (1943), Jamie Campbell Bower (1988), and Nigel Davenport (1928). After him are Clive Dunn (1920), Amira Casar (1971), Roy Kinnear (1934), Clive Swift (1936), John Loder (1898), and Elisabeth Sladen (1946).

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Television and Movie Roles

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Prof. Franz
A masked serial killer with psychosexual issues strangles female coeds with scarves before dismembering them. When a wealthy student identifies one of the scarves and thinks she has a lead on a suspect, she becomes the killer's next target, retreating to her family's remote cliffside villa with three of her girlfriends.
Jan 4o 19736.553 / 10
Black Sunday
Dr. Andrej Gorobec / Dr. Andreas Gorobec
A vengeful witch, Asa Vajda, and her fiendish servant, Igor Jauvitch, return from the grave and begin a bloody campaign to possess the body of the witch's beautiful look-alike descendant, Katia. Only a handsome doctor with the help of family members stand in her way.
Aug 11o 19607.49 / 10
One Million Years B.C.
Tumak
As the Earth wrestles with its agonizing birth, the peoples of this barren and desolate world struggle to survive. Driven by animal instinct they compete against the harsh conditions, their giant predators, and warring tribes. When two people from opposing clans fall in love, existing conventions are shattered forever as each tribe struggles for supremacy and Man embarks on his tortuous voyage of civilization.
Nov 24o 19666.076 / 10