ACTOR

Leo Genn

1905 - 1978

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Leopold John Genn ( GHEN; 9 August 1905 – 26 January 1978) was an English actor and barrister. Distinguished by his relaxed charm and smooth, "black velvet" voice, he had a lengthy career in theatre, film, television, and radio; often playing aristocratic or gentlemanly, sophisticate roles. Born to a Jewish family in London, Genn was educated as a lawyer and was a practising barrister until after World War II, in which he had served in the Royal Artillery as a Lieutenant-Colonel. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Leo Genn has received more than 567,038 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Leo Genn is the 1,910th most popular actor (up from 2,650th in 2019), the 1,823rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,393rd in 2019) and the 250th most popular British Actor.

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  • 570k

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  • 54.59

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.49

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Leo Genn ranks 1,910 out of 13,578Before her are Eric Stoltz, Carla Gugino, Abdellatif Kechiche, Lee Dong-wook, Guillaume Canet, and Maila Nurmi. After her are Sandra Dee, Mary-Louise Parker, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Philip Baker Hall, Nikolay Cherkasov, and Lauren Hutton.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Leo Genn ranks 119Before her are Bruno Rossi, Anfilogino Guarisi, Karl Amadeus Hartmann, Victor Kravchenko, Joseph Bonanno, and Harry Harlow. After her are Hiroshi Inagaki, Maximilian Grabner, Louis Harold Gray, Henry Koster, Hans Freudenthal, and Pierre Brasseur. Among people deceased in 1978, Leo Genn ranks 88Before her are Pancho Vladigerov, Armin T. Wegner, Gabriel Ramanantsoa, Viggo Brun, Raúl Alberto Lastiri, and Edmundo Suárez. After her are Hans Stuck, Emilio Portes Gil, Max Mallowan, George Maciunas, Mstislav Keldysh, and Henryk Zygalski.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Leo Genn ranks 1,823 out of 8,785Before her are William Beckford (1760), Sid Watkins (1928), Dick Francis (1920), Ronnie O'Sullivan (1975), Christopher Priest (1943), and Matthew Paris (1200). After her are John Wetton (1949), Andrew Irvine (1902), Allan Octavian Hume (1829), Thomas Beecham (1879), William Howe, 5th Viscount Howe (1729), and Adam Sedgwick (1785).

Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Leo Genn ranks 250Before her are Michael Sheen (1969), Tom Felton (1987), Nigel Terry (1945), Rupert Grint (1988), Peter Capaldi (1958), and Miranda Richardson (1958). After her are Susannah York (1939), Eunice Gayson (1928), Pauline Moran (1947), Lilian Harvey (1906), Donald Crisp (1882), and Ray Winstone (1957).