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Josephine Hull

1877 - 1957

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Marie Josephine Hull (née Sherwood; January 3, 1877 – March 12, 1957) was an American stage and film actress who also was a director of plays. She had a successful 50-year career on stage while taking some of her better known roles to film. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the movie Harvey (1950), a role she originally played on the Broadway stage. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Josephine Hull has received more than 362,140 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Josephine Hull is the 3,203rd most popular actor (down from 2,299th in 2019), the 4,839th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,742nd in 2019) and the 1,441st most popular American Actor.

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  • 40

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  • 2.96

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  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Josephine Hull ranks 3,203 out of 13,578. Before her are Inger Stevens, Yūjirō Ishihara, Clémence Poésy, Alice Krige, William Zabka, and Mark Addy. After her are Tōru Furuya, Friedrich Ludwig Schröder, Rachel Ward, Justin Theroux, Sam Wanamaker, and Giovanna Antonelli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Josephine Hull ranks 109. Before her are Giuseppe Volpi, Mordechai Gebirtig, Edmund Gwenn, Elin Pelin, Alessandro Pirzio Biroli, and Lewis Terman. After her are Maurice Farman, Vladimir Gardin, Buddy Bolden, Giuseppe Pizzardo, Aleksandr Khanzhonkov, and Ugo Cerletti. Among people deceased in 1957, Josephine Hull ranks 137. Before her are Othmar Schoeck, Grace Coolidge, James Whale, Óscar Domínguez, William Cameron Menzies, and Oldřich Duras. After her are Harald Sverdrup, Kulyash Baiseitova, Marie Vassilieff, Ernest Oppenheimer, Arie de Jong, and Walter Jakobsson.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Josephine Hull ranks 4,839 out of 20,380. Before her are Robert N. Bellah (1927), Blackie Lawless (1956), William Zabka (1965), Oscar Hammerstein II (1895), Oliver North (1943), and Rafer Johnson (1935). After her are Edwin Austin Abbey (1852), Dennis Dugan (1946), Gloria Vanderbilt (1924), Louise Arner Boyd (1887), Charles Grandison Finney (1792), and Theodore Maiman (1927).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Josephine Hull ranks 1,441. Before her are Jeffrey Katzenberg (1950), Sam Jaffe (1891), William Sanderson (1944), Stephen Collins (1947), Ed Begley (1901), and William Zabka (1965). After her are Justin Theroux (1971), Sam Wanamaker (1919), Michael Weatherly (1968), Richard Lynch (1940), Fay Bainter (1893), and Gregory Itzin (1948).

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Television and Movie Roles

Arsenic and Old Lace
Aunt Abby Brewster
Mortimer Brewster, a newspaper drama critic, playwright, and author known for his diatribes against marriage, suddenly falls in love and gets married; but when he makes a quick trip home to tell his two maiden aunts, he finds out his aunts' hobby - killing lonely old men and burying them in the cellar!
Sep 1st 19447.641 / 10
Harvey
Veta Louise Simmons
The story of Elwood P. Dowd who makes friends with a spirit taking the form of a human-sized rabbit named Harvey that only he sees (and a few privileged others on occasion also.) After his sister tries to commit him to a mental institution, a comedy of errors ensues. Elwood and Harvey become the catalysts for a family mending its wounds and for romance blossoming in unexpected places.
Dec 4th 19507.7 / 10
After Tomorrow
Mrs. Piper
In the Depression, Pete and Sidney are good kids, working hard, giving money to their parents, and engaged for three years while they save to get married. Each has a selfish mother: Sydney's is cold, Pete's is clingy. Sidney's mother is looking for her own happiness, no matter how much that search harms her daughter and long-suffering husband; and, the longer the engagement lingers, the more pressure Pete's mom puts on Sidney to break it off and set her son free. "After Tomorrow" is Pete and Sidney's favorite song, but with illness, poverty, and temptation: will that good day ever come?
Mar 6th 19325.75 / 10