ACTOR

Maurice Costello

1877 - 1950

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Maurice George Costello (February 22, 1877 – October 29, 1950) was a prominent American vaudeville actor of the late 1890s and early 1900s who later played a principal role in early American films as leading man, supporting player, and director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Costello has received more than 216,435 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Maurice Costello is the 4,357th most popular actor (down from 4,088th in 2019), the 6,393rd most popular biography from United States (down from 6,166th in 2019) and the 1,954th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 220k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.41

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.58

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Maurice Costellos by language

Over the past year Maurice Costello has had the most page views in the with 33,312 views, followed by Spanish (3,287), and Italian (2,316). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Uzbek (232.98%), Afrikaans (138.61%), and Hungarian (45.89%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Maurice Costello ranks 4,357 out of 13,578. Before him are Thelma Todd, Steven Culp, Bernadette Peters, Joseph Sweeney, Rutanya Alda, and Peter Facinelli. After him are John Ratzenberger, La Jana, Tom Wopat, Riccardo Scamarcio, Eriq La Salle, and Cornell Borchers.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1877, Maurice Costello ranks 138. Before him are Bolesław Leśmian, Semyon Frank, Aleksey Remizov, Wang Guowei, Fritz Graebner, and Manuel González García. After him are Julius Curtius, René Navarre, Roelof Klein, Ioannis Persakis, Otto Gebühr, and Ernst Wetter. Among people deceased in 1950, Maurice Costello ranks 142. Before him are Charles Gmelin, Alexander Tairov, Semyon Frank, Giovanni Giorgi, Aleksandrs Čaks, and John M. Stahl. After him are Hedwig Courths-Mahler, Gopinath Bordoloi, Sara Allgood, Ransom E. Olds, Yan Huiqing, and Bainbridge Colby.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Maurice Costello ranks 6,393 out of 20,380. Before him are Theodore Robinson (1852), Patricia Bath (1942), Shafi Goldwasser (1958), Victor J. Stenger (1935), Peter Facinelli (1973), and Henry Carr (1941). After him are John Ratzenberger (1947), Shel Silverstein (1930), Tom Wopat (1951), Annette Haven (1954), Eriq La Salle (1962), and George Tenet (1953).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Maurice Costello ranks 1,954. Before him are Corbin Bleu (1989), Thelma Todd (1906), Steven Culp (1955), Bernadette Peters (1948), Joseph Sweeney (1884), and Peter Facinelli (1973). After him are John Ratzenberger (1947), Tom Wopat (1951), Eriq La Salle (1962), Mädchen Amick (1970), Victor Buono (1938), and Anne Shirley (1918).

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Television and Movie Roles

Citizen Kane
Extra (uncredited)
Newspaper magnate Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.
Apr 17o 19418 / 10
Little Nemo
Himself
Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style. Also known as "Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics".
Apr 8o 19116.3 / 10
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Lysander
An early film adaptation of the Beard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.
Dec 25o 19094.9 / 10