ACTOR

Laurence Harvey

1928 - 1973

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Laurence Harvey (born Zvi Mosheh Skikne; 1 October 1928 – 25 November 1973) was a Lithuanian-born actor. He was born to Lithuanian Jewish parents and emigrated to South Africa at an early age, before later settling in the United Kingdom after World War II. In a career that spanned a quarter of a century, Harvey appeared in stage, film and television productions primarily in the United Kingdom and the United States. Harvey was known for his clipped, refined accent and cool, debonair screen persona. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Laurence Harvey has received more than 2,917,225 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Laurence Harvey is the 1,789th most popular actor (down from 27th in 2019), the 65th most popular biography from Lithuania (down from 57th in 2019) and the most popular Lithuanian Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Laurence Harvey ranks 1,789 out of 13,578. Before him are Diane Cilento, Silvana Pampanini, Rebecca De Mornay, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Claude Rich, and Anthony Quayle. After him are Donatas Banionis, Tatiana Samoilova, Jeffrey Tambor, Martha Scott, Shera Danese, and Katie Holmes.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Laurence Harvey ranks 192. Before him are Jack Tramiel, Helen Frankenthaler, Jean Vanier, Lorna Wing, Cannonball Adderley, and William Peter Blatty. After him are Dominique Colonna, Stuart Whitman, Frank Wolff, Jack Kevorkian, Lennart Carleson, and Friedrich Wetter. Among people deceased in 1973, Laurence Harvey ranks 105. Before him are Helen Parkhurst, Gene Krupa, Alois Hába, Tarsila do Amaral, Lidia Ruslanova, and Bobby Darin. After him are Dmytro Dontsov, Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, Gabriel Voisin, Walter Krüger, Tanzan Ishibashi, and Paul van Zeeland.

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In Lithuania

Among people born in Lithuania, Laurence Harvey ranks 65 out of 328. Before him are Aharon Barak (1936), Antoni Radziwiłł (1775), Bruno Abakanowicz (1852), Audrys Bačkis (1937), Joseph Klausner (1874), and Antanas Merkys (1887). After him are Donatas Banionis (1924), Kazimira Prunskienė (1943), Ingrida Šimonytė (1974), Hermann Sudermann (1857), Stanisław Bułak-Bałachowicz (1883), and George Maciunas (1931).

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Among ACTORS In Lithuania

Among actors born in Lithuania, Laurence Harvey ranks 1. After him are Donatas Banionis (1924), Petr Shelokhonov (1929), Jacques Sernas (1925), Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė (1963), Regimantas Adomaitis (1937), Cornell Borchers (1925), Vasily Kachalov (1875), Juozas Budraitis (1940), and Agnia Ditkovskyte (1988).

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