ACTOR

Ken Uehara

1909 - 1991

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Ken Uehara (上原謙, Uehara Ken, 7 November 1909 – 23 November 1991) was a Japanese actor who appeared in approximately 200 films between 1935 and 1990. A graduate of Rikkyo University, Uehara joined the Shochiku film studio in 1935. After the war, he became a freelance actor, before signing with the Toho film studio. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ken Uehara has received more than 43,498 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Uehara is the 5,045th most popular actor, the 1,315th most popular biography from Japan and the 97th most popular Japanese Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 43k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ken Uehara ranks 5,045 out of 13,578. Before him are Bella Thorne, Anton Walbrook, Ben Chaplin, Dorothy Provine, Kane Hodder, and Eduardo Noriega. After him are Kevin Gage, Patricia Hayes, Alun Armstrong, Pat Crawford Brown, Jane Curtin, and Julia Gutiérrez Caba.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Ken Uehara ranks 312. Before him are Moshe Castel, Godfrey Rampling, Ernesto Belis, Adam Rapacki, Margita Figuli, and Peter Scott. After him are Patricia Hayes, Luiz Luz, Johnny Mercer, Georges Verriest, Paula Strasberg, and Giuseppe Viani. Among people deceased in 1991, Ken Uehara ranks 195. Before him are Moshe Castel, Mildred Dunnock, Wolfgang Hildesheimer, Jean Van Houtte, Wilfrid Hyde-White, and David Marshall Lang. After him are Ismat Chughtai, Daniel Oduber Quirós, Inga Gentzel, Márcio Melo, Eva Bosáková, and Daniel Mann.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ken Uehara ranks 1,315 out of 6,245. Before him are Sakai Toshihiko (1871), Hyde (1969), Shinobu Ikeda (1962), Tsutomu Seki (1930), Peter Takeo Okada (1941), and Ken Akamatsu (1968). After him are Kazushi Kimura (1958), Kenjirō Tokutomi (1868), Hidetaka Nishiyama (1928), Kenyu Horiuchi (1957), Hiroyuki Sawano (1980), and Toshi (1965).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Ken Uehara ranks 97. Before him are Tamlyn Tomita (1966), Akira Ishida (1967), Junko Takeuchi (1972), Keiji Fujiwara (1964), Hitoshi Matsumoto (1963), and Toshiyuki Morikawa (1967). After him are Kenyu Horiuchi (1957), Hiromi Tsuru (1960), Keiko Awaji (1933), Kaori Momoi (1951), Kikuko Inoue (1964), and Shin-ichiro Miki (1968).

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Television and Movie Roles

Repast
Hatsunosuke Okamoto
Michiyo lives in the small place Osaka and is not happy with her marriage, all she does is cook and clean for her husband.
Nov 23o 19517.5 / 10
Mr. Thank You
Mr. Thank You
In Depression-era Japan, a courteous bus driver carries an eclectic group of passengers from the mountainous Izu to Tokyo.
Feb 27o 19367 / 10
Mothra
Dr. Harada
Shipwreck survivors found on the presumably uninhabited Infant Island leads to a scientific expedition that discovers a surviving native population along with the Shobijin, tiny twin fairy priestesses of the island's mythical deity called Mothra. After the fairies are kidnapped by an exploitative businessman named Clark Nelson, Mothra sets out to rescue them.
Jul 30o 19617.1 / 10