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Margaret Leighton

1922 - 1976

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Margaret Leighton (26 February 1922 – 13 January 1976) was an English actress, active on stage and television, and in film. Her film appearances included Anthony Asquith's The Winslow Boy (her first credited film role), Alfred Hitchcock's Under Capricorn, Powell and Pressburger's The Elusive Pimpernel, George More O'Ferrall's The Holly and the Ivy, Martin Ritt's The Sound and the Fury, John Guillermin's Waltz of the Toreadors, Franklin J. Schaffner's The Best Man, Tony Richardson's The Loved One, John Ford's 7 Women, and Joseph Losey's The Go-Between and Galileo. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Margaret Leighton has received more than 912,440 page views. Her biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Margaret Leighton is the 5,573rd most popular actor (down from 4,732nd in 2019), the 4,175th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,683rd in 2019) and the 637th most popular British Actor.

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  • 910k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.02

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Margaret Leighton ranks 5,573 out of 13,578. Before her are Sebastian Cabot, Lidia Wysocka, Park Eun-bin, Merna Kennedy, Joan Shawlee, and Chris Owen. After her are Marin Hinkle, Cho Yeo-jeong, Mike Farrell, Faith Domergue, Blossom Rock, and David Walliams.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Margaret Leighton ranks 344. Before her are Lloyd La Beach, Sydney Lassick, Neal Hefti, Mochtar Lubis, Guy Madison, and Carl Amery. After her are Rudolf Illovszky, José Craveirinha, Giorgio Anglesio, Kuno Klötzer, Arthur Wightman, and Grace Paley. Among people deceased in 1976, Margaret Leighton ranks 216. Before her are Maria Klenova, Busby Berkeley, Walter Janssen, Carlo Mattrel, Anna Kéthly, and Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ. After her are Samuel Eliot Morison, Segundo Durandal, Clarice Benini, Isidoro Sota, Abram Room, and David Jacobs.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Margaret Leighton ranks 4,175 out of 8,785. Before her are Elizabeth Montagu (1718), Isaac Pitman (1813), Sebastian Cabot (1918), Edward Rutherfurd (1948), Peter Osgood (1947), and Gwendoline Eastlake-Smith (1883). After her are Alastair Windsor, 2nd Duke of Connaught and Strathearn (1914), Philippa York (1958), David Walliams (1971), Princess Beatrice of York (1988), Peter Tait (1831), and Bruno Heller (1960).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Margaret Leighton ranks 637. Before her are Thomas Brodie-Sangster (1990), Linus Roache (1964), Alan Napier (1903), Lily James (1989), Frank Dillane (1991), and Sebastian Cabot (1918). After her are David Walliams (1971), Colin Baker (1943), Jamie Campbell Bower (1988), Nigel Davenport (1928), John Richardson (1934), and Clive Dunn (1920).

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Television and Movie Roles

Under Capricorn
Milly
A native Briton banished to Australia for murder, and his wife, Henrietta, the disturbed sister of the man he was convicted on killing, set out to help her conquer her demons and return her life to normal.
Sep 8o 19496 / 10
The Go-Between
Mrs Maudsley
British teenager Leo Colston spends a summer in the countryside, where he develops a crush on the beautiful young aristocrat Marian. Eager to impress her, Leo becomes the "go-between" for Marian, delivering secret romantic letters to Ted Burgess, a handsome neighboring farmer.
Jun 16o 19716.788 / 10
7 Women
Agatha Andrews
In a mission in China in 1935, a group of women are preyed on by Mongolian bandits, led by Warlord chief Tunga Khan.
Dec 11o 19656.5 / 10