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Lionel Barrymore

1878 - 1954

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Lionel Barrymore (born Lionel Herbert Blyth; April 28, 1878 – November 15, 1954) was an American actor of stage, screen and radio as well as a film director. He won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his performance in A Free Soul (1931), and is known to modern audiences for the role of villainous Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lionel Barrymore has received more than 4,304,635 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 53 in 2019). Lionel Barrymore is the 1,366th most popular actor (down from 1,112th in 2019), the 2,395th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,053rd in 2019) and the 659th most popular American Actor.

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  • 55.84

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 51

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.93

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Lionel Barrymore ranks 1,366 out of 9,996. Before him are Kinuyo Tanaka, Brion James, Walter Gotell, Frances de la Tour, Maria Bello, and Christine Kaufmann. After him are Akim Tamiroff, Solomon Mikhoels, Izabella Scorupco, Stanley Kamel, Chaim Topol, and Marina Berti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1878, Lionel Barrymore ranks 63. Before him are Princess Alexandra of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, C. Rajagopalachari, Horacio Quiroga, Hans Ledwinka, Eino Leino, and Paul Troost. After him are Walter Heitz, Manuel L. Quezon, Alfréd Hajós, Anton Hansen Tammsaare, Duchess Marie Gabrielle in Bavaria, and Carl Sandburg. Among people deceased in 1954, Lionel Barrymore ranks 44. Before him are Jörg Lanz von Liebenfels, Ivan Ilyin, Princess Margaret of Prussia, Oscar Straus, Marianne Weber, and Marius Jacob. After him are Edwin Howard Armstrong, Wilhelm Schmidt, Robert H. Jackson, Princess Antonia of Luxembourg, Theodor Kaluza, and James Hilton.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Lionel Barrymore ranks 2,395 out of 18,182. Before him are Frederik Pohl (1919), Randy Newman (1943), Ric Flair (1949), Maria Bello (1967), Donna Karan (1948), and Erin Brockovich (1960). After him are Tom Fogerty (1941), Cannonball Adderley (1928), Stanley Kamel (1943), H. Robert Horvitz (1947), Barbara Hershey (1948), and Lindsay Wagner (1949).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Lionel Barrymore ranks 659. Before him are Sam Rockwell (1968), Dick Sargent (1930), Casey Affleck (1975), Fredric March (1897), Brion James (1945), and Maria Bello (1967). After him are Stanley Kamel (1943), Barbara Hershey (1948), Lindsay Wagner (1949), Steve Guttenberg (1958), Richard Bull (1924), and Mark Dacascos (1964).

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