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Maureen O'Sullivan

1911 - 1998

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Maureen O'Sullivan (May 17, 1911 – June 23, 1998) was an Irish actress who played Jane in the Tarzan series of films during the era of Johnny Weissmuller. She starred in dozens of feature films across a span of more than half a century and performed with such actors as Laurence Olivier, Greta Garbo, Fredric March, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, the Marx Bros. (Groucho, Harpo and Chico) and Woody Allen. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maureen O'Sullivan has received more than 3,609,973 page views. Her biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2019). Maureen O'Sullivan is the 1,477th most popular actor (down from 1,410th in 2019), the 83rd most popular biography from Ireland (down from 78th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Irish Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 3.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.25

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 40

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Maureen O'Sullivans by language

Over the past year Maureen O'Sullivan has had the most page views in the with 420,801 views, followed by German (46,321), and Spanish (34,076). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are German (162.56%), Breton (109.35%), and Egyptian Arabic (79.21%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Maureen O'Sullivan ranks 1,477 out of 13,578. Before her are Ángela Molina, Elijah Wood, Katherine Helmond, Eddie Redmayne, Tobias Moretti, and Robert Powell. After her are Julie Newmar, Rosamund Pike, Aleksander Krupa, Vera Fischer, Chaim Topol, and Heather Locklear.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Maureen O'Sullivan ranks 98. Before her are André Leroi-Gourhan, André Claveau, Hans Woellke, Ishirō Honda, Józef Cyrankiewicz, and Alfredo Foni. After her are Shiing-Shen Chern, Martin Sandberger, Franz Binder, Zenkō Suzuki, John C. Woods, and Prince Carl Bernadotte. Among people deceased in 1998, Maureen O'Sullivan ranks 82. Before her are Shotaro Ishinomori, Don Taylor, Zbigniew Herbert, Efim Geller, César Baldaccini, and László Szabó. After her are Archie Moore, Otto Wichterle, Aymoré Moreira, J. T. Walsh, Ramón Sampedro, and Antonio Quarracino.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Maureen O'Sullivan ranks 83 out of 549. Before her are Brigid of Kildare (451), Neil Jordan (1950), James Hoban (1762), Fionnula Flanagan (1941), Conor McGregor (1988), and George Johnstone Stoney (1826). After her are Eliza Lynch (1833), Andrew Graham (1815), Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh (1769), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Saint Kilian (640), and Francis Ysidro Edgeworth (1845).

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Among ACTORS In Ireland

Among actors born in Ireland, Maureen O'Sullivan ranks 13. Before her are Brendan Gleeson (1955), Maureen O'Hara (1920), David Kelly (1929), Colin Farrell (1976), Brenda Fricker (1945), and Fionnula Flanagan (1941). After her are Liam Cunningham (1961), Edward Mulhare (1923), Fiona Shaw (1958), Jonathan Rhys Meyers (1977), Colm Meaney (1953), and Dan O'Herlihy (1919).

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Television and Movie Roles

Hannah and Her Sisters
Norma
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Feb 7o 19867.501 / 10
The Thin Man
Dorothy Wynant
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
May 25o 19347.501 / 10
Tarzan the Ape Man
Jane Parker
James Parker and Harry Holt are on an expedition in Africa in search of the elephant burial grounds that will provide enough ivory to make them rich. Parker's beautiful daughter Jane arrives unexpectedly to join them. Jane is terrified when Tarzan and his ape friends abduct her, but when she returns to her father's expedition she has second thoughts about leaving Tarzan.
Apr 2o 19326.6 / 10