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Lino Ventura

1919 - 1987

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Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian-born actor and philanthropist, who lived and worked for most of his life in France. He was considered one of the greatest leading man of French cinema during the 1960’s and ‘70s, known for his portrayal of tough characters on both sides of the law in crime dramas. Born in Parma and raised there and in Paris, Ventura was first a professional wrestler, before his career was ended by injury. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lino Ventura has received more than 453,116 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 36 in 2019). Lino Ventura is the 298th most popular actor (up from 383rd in 2019), the 644th most popular biography from Italy (up from 810th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Italian Actor.

Lino Ventura was a French actor who was most famous for his role in the movie "The Big Blue."

Memorability Metrics

  • 450k

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  • 66.08

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Lino Ventura ranks 298 out of 9,996Before him are William Shatner, Isabelle Adjani, F. Murray Abraham, Liv Ullmann, Jennifer Aniston, and Matt Damon. After him are Lída Baarová, Nathalie Delon, Jerry Lewis, Anthony Perkins, Juliette Gréco, and Salma Hayek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Lino Ventura ranks 12Before him are Doris Lessing, Desmond Doss, Primo Levi, Zhao Ziyang, Giulio Andreotti, and Margot Fonteyn. After him are Georgios Papadopoulos, Nat King Cole, Choi Kyu-hah, Donald Pleasence, Kim Jong-suk, and Gerhard Barkhorn. Among people deceased in 1987, Lino Ventura ranks 17Before him are Pola Negri, Andrey Kolmogorov, Thomas Sankara, Gunnar Myrdal, Walter Houser Brattain, and John Huston. After him are John Howard Northrop, William P. Murphy, Lee Byung-chul, Andrés Segovia, Jascha Heifetz, and Fahri Korutürk.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Lino Ventura ranks 644 out of 4,668Before him are Desiderius (710), Hiero II of Syracuse (-308), Publius Clodius Pulcher (-90), Giancarlo Giannini (1942), Giacomo Leopardi (1798), and Giovanni Giustiniani (1418). After him are Conrad of Montferrat (1146), Luca Signorelli (1450), Dario Argento (1940), Lucius Aemilius Paullus Macedonicus (-229), Ferdinand III, Grand Duke of Tuscany (1769), and Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia (1666).

Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Lino Ventura ranks 19Before him are Franco Nero (1941), Giuliano Gemma (1938), Rudolph Valentino (1895), Raffaella Carrà (1943), Ornella Muti (1955), and Giancarlo Giannini (1942). After him are Vittorio Gassman (1922), Virna Lisi (1936), Gian Maria Volonté (1933), Lucia Bosè (1931), Franco Columbu (1941), and Michele Placido (1946).

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