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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 358,352 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 37 in 2019). Josephine Hull is the 3,199th 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 1,440th most popular American Actor.

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  • 360k

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  • 50.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.96

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.64

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Josephine Hull ranks 3,199 out of 13,578Before 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 109Before 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 137Before 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 20,380Before 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).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Josephine Hull ranks 1,440Before 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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