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John Williams

1903 - 1983

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John Williams (15 April 1903 – 5 May 1983) was a British stage, film, and television actor. He is remembered for his role as Chief Inspector Hubbard in Alfred Hitchcock's Dial M for Murder, as the chauffeur in Billy Wilder's Sabrina (both 1954), as Mr. Brogan-Moore in Witness for the Prosecution (1957), and as the second "Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Williams has received more than 14,936,779 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). John Williams is the 2,868th most popular actor (down from 2,313th in 2019), the 2,543rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,232nd in 2019) and the 361st most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 15M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.29

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.15

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, John Williams ranks 2,868 out of 9,996Before him are Franca Rame, Seann William Scott, Branscombe Richmond, John Carroll Lynch, Will Patton, and Pierre Fresnay. After him are Marcel Ophüls, Amedeo Nazzari, Sunil Dutt, Park Seo-joon, Oleg Basilashvili, and Anna Q. Nilsson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, John Williams ranks 174Before him are Gʻafur Gʻulom, Orde Wingate, Preston Tucker, Issa Pliyev, Hans Hedtoft, and Fernando Paternoster. After him are Misuzu Kaneko, Ary Barroso, Nico Diederichs, Kathleen Lonsdale, Leo Huberman, and Charles Rigoulot. Among people deceased in 1983, John Williams ranks 126Before him are Cathy Berberian, Raymond Massey, Bill Brandt, Rudolf Wolters, Nichita Stănescu, and Burrill Bernard Crohn. After him are Musine Kokalari, Antonin Magne, Lisette Model, Louise Weiss, Semyon Ignatyev, and Edward Lawry Norton.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, John Williams ranks 2,543 out of 7,765Before him are Mick Fleetwood (1947), Ken Livingstone (1945), Christopher Hogwood (1941), André Waterkeyn (1917), Thomas Blake Glover (1838), and John Aubrey (1626). After him are Jerome Flynn (1963), Trevor Pinnock (1946), Charles James Fox (1749), Ælfgifu of Northampton (990), James Somerville (1882), and Mary Cartwright (1900).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, John Williams ranks 361Before him are Jodie Whittaker (1982), Una Stubbs (1937), Stuart Wilson (1946), Gorden Kaye (1941), Leonard Whiting (1950), and Harry Andrews (1911). After him are Belinda Lee (1935), Jane Asher (1946), Rachel Roberts (1927), Mark Lindsay Chapman (1954), Siân Phillips (1933), and Olivia Williams (1968).

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