ACTOR

Marie Dressler

1868 - 1934

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Leila Marie Koerber (November 9, 1868 – July 28, 1934), known by her stage name Marie Dressler, was a Canadian-born stage and screen actress and comedian, who was popular in Hollywood in early silent and Depression-era film. After leaving home at the age of 14, Dressler built a career on stage in traveling theatre troupes, where she learned to appreciate her talent in making people laugh. In 1892, she started a career on Broadway that lasted into the 1920s, performing comedic roles that allowed her to improvise to get laughs. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Marie Dressler has received more than 877,398 page views. Her biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2019). Marie Dressler is the 3,033rd most popular actor (down from 1,928th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Canada (down from 150th in 2019) and the 67th most popular Canadian Actor.

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  • 51.31

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  • 52

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.45

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Marie Dressler ranks 3,033 out of 13,578. Before her are Gustav Knuth, Flora Finch, Hilda Bernard, Park Seo-joon, Edmund Gwenn, and Kim Hye-soo. After her are Colleen Dewhurst, Patti LuPone, Agostina Belli, Ana Martín, Manu Bennett, and Leon Lai.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1868, Marie Dressler ranks 128. Before her are Alfred Fowler, Marcelo Torcuato de Alvear, Edward S. Curtis, Anna Missuna, John Sealy Townsend, and Filipp Makharadze. After her are Juventino Rosas, Georges Lacombe, Constance Markievicz, Mikhail Pokrovsky, Emil Racoviță, and Nikolaos Trikoupis. Among people deceased in 1934, Marie Dressler ranks 99. Before her are Maria Zankovetska, Charley Patton, Hulda Garborg, Gertrude Käsebier, Aboul-Qacem Echebbi, and Safvet-beg Bašagić. After her are Lucien Gaudin, Hermann Kusmanek von Burgneustädten, Georgi Todorov, Kim Sowol, Edgar Jung, and Giovanni Brunero.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Marie Dressler ranks 232 out of 1,622. Before her are Robert D. Hare (1934), Debbi Wilkes (1946), August Schellenberg (1936), John Murray (1841), William H. McNeill (1917), and Mazo de la Roche (1879). After her are Colleen Dewhurst (1924), Gaëtan Dugas (1952), Michael Ontkean (1946), R. Murray Schafer (1933), Kim Campbell (1947), and David H. Levy (1948).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Marie Dressler ranks 67. Before her are Cobie Smulders (1982), Sandra Oh (1971), Phil Hartman (1948), Marc Singer (1948), Josephine Crowell (1859), and August Schellenberg (1936). After her are Colleen Dewhurst (1924), Michael Ontkean (1946), Ann Rutherford (1917), Kenneth Welsh (1942), Elias Koteas (1961), and Linda Thorson (1947).

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Television and Movie Roles

Dinner at Eight
Carlotta Vance
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
Dec 22o 19336.7 / 10
Tillie's Punctured Romance
Tillie Banks
A womanizing city man meets Tillie in the country. When he sees that her father has a very large bankroll for his workers, he persuades her to elope with him.
Dec 21o 19146.127 / 10
Min and Bill
Min Divot
Min, the owner of a dockside hotel, is forced to make difficult decisions about the future of Nancy, the young woman she took in as an infant.
Nov 29o 19306.286 / 10