ACTOR

Mako

1933 - 2006

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Makoto Iwamatsu (岩松 信, Iwamatsu Makoto, December 10, 1933 – July 21, 2006) was a Japanese-American actor, credited mononymously in almost all of his acting roles as simply Mako (マコ). His career in film, on television, and on stage spanned 5 decades and 165 productions. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mako has received more than 220,812 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Mako is the 237th most popular actor (up from 1,376th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Japan (up from 535th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Japanese Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 72.16

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 35

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 10.95

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mako ranks 237 out of 13,578. Before him are Liv Ullmann, Dennis Hopper, Anna Magnani, Dolph Lundgren, Lauren Bacall, and Ursula Andress. After him are Viggo Mortensen, Danny Trejo, Michel Piccoli, Bryan Cranston, Jayne Mansfield, and Jodie Foster.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Mako ranks 22. Before him are Corazon Aquino, Nina Simone, Amartya Sen, Heinrich Rohrer, Philip Roth, and Susan Sontag. After him are Elinor Ostrom, Francisco Gento, Arno Allan Penzias, Jayne Mansfield, Krzysztof Penderecki, and Paul Biya. Among people deceased in 2006, Mako ranks 18. Before him are Oriana Fallaci, Alfredo Stroessner, Saparmurat Niyazov, Owen Chamberlain, Heinrich Harrer, and György Ligeti. After him are Anna Politkovskaya, Ibrahim Rugova, Giacinto Facchetti, Paul Mauriat, Johannes Rau, and Melvin Schwartz.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Mako ranks 61 out of 6,245. Before him are Koxinga (1624), Isamu Akasaki (1929), Emperor Suizei (-669), Liv Ullmann (1938), Junji Nishikawa (1907), and Empress Michiko (1934). After him are Tsutomu Yamaguchi (1916), Natsume Sōseki (1867), Kane Tanaka (1903), Akechi Mitsuhide (1526), Tokugawa Yoshinobu (1837), and Hideki Yukawa (1907).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Mako ranks 3. Before him are Olivia de Havilland (1916), and Liv Ullmann (1938). After him are Sonny Chiba (1939), Joan Fontaine (1917), Ken Watanabe (1959), Takashi Shimura (1905), Setsuko Hara (1920), Hiroyuki Sanada (1960), Tatsuya Nakadai (1932), Sessue Hayakawa (1886), and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950).

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