ACTOR

Merle Oberon

1911 - 1979

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Merle Oberon (born Estelle Merle O'Brien Thompson; 19 February 1911 – 23 November 1979) was a British actress. She gained recognition for portraying Anne Boleyn in The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) and saw further success with her role in The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934). She later travelled to the United States to make films for Samuel Goldwyn, including Folies Bergère de Paris (1935), The Dark Angel (1935), These Three (1936), The Cowboy and the Lady (1938), and Wuthering Heights (1939). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Merle Oberon has received more than 4,233,118 page views. His biography is available in 40 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 39 in 2019). Merle Oberon is the 1,622nd most popular actor (down from 29th in 2019), the 269th most popular biography from India (up from 311th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Indian Actor.

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  • 40

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  • 4.90

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Merle Oberon ranks 1,622 out of 13,578. Before him are Laura Linney, El Risitas, Anna May Wong, Anatoli Papanov, Allan Edwall, and Linda Kozlowski. After him are Daliah Lavi, Paul Scofield, Lynn Redgrave, Marie Dubois, Peter Boyle, and Sylvia Sidney.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1911, Merle Oberon ranks 106. Before him are Martin Sandberger, Franz Binder, Zenkō Suzuki, John C. Woods, Prince Carl Bernadotte, and Andor Lilienthal. After him are Infanta María Cristina of Spain, David Ogilvy, Jehan Alain, Simone Simon, Joe Rosenthal, and Renato Guttuso. Among people deceased in 1979, Merle Oberon ranks 84. Before him are Joseph Kessel, Henrich Focke, Waldemar de Brito, Amir-Abbas Hoveyda, Walther Gerlach, and Teruo Nakamura. After him are Ahmad Zahir, Preguinho, Philippe Halsman, Santos Urdinarán, Larisa Shepitko, and Katharine Burr Blodgett.

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In India

Among people born in India, Merle Oberon ranks 269 out of 1,861. Before him are Akbar II (1760), Salim Ali (1896), D. R. Bendre (1896), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), Sridevi (1963), and Swaminarayan (1781). After him are Tilopa (928), Baji Rao I (1700), Shankar Dayal Sharma (1918), C. N. Annadurai (1909), Dhirubhai Ambani (1932), and Jaya Bachchan (1948).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Merle Oberon ranks 17. Before him are Shilpa Shetty (1975), Amrish Puri (1932), Hema Malini (1948), Rajesh Khanna (1942), Aamir Khan (1965), and Sridevi (1963). After him are Jaya Bachchan (1948), Bhupen Hazarika (1926), Savitri (1936), Rajinikanth (1950), Nargis (1929), and Puneeth Rajkumar (1975).

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Television and Movie Roles

Wuthering Heights
Catherine 'Cathy' Earnshaw Linton
The Earnshaws are Yorkshire farmers during the early 19th Century. One day, Mr. Earnshaw returns from a trip to the city, bringing with him a ragged little boy called Heathcliff. Earnshaw's son, Hindley, resents the child, but Heathcliff becomes companion and soulmate to Hindley's sister, Catherine. After her parents die, Cathy and Heathcliff grow up wild and free on the moors and despite the continued enmity between Hindley and Heathcliff they're happy -- until Cathy meets Edgar Linton, the son of a wealthy neighbor.
Apr 7o 19397.2 / 10
The Lodger
Kitty Langley
In Victorian era London, the inhabitants of a family home with rented rooms upstairs fear the new lodger is Jack the Ripper.
Jan 19o 19446.335 / 10
Berlin Express
Lucienne
In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
May 1o 19486.1 / 10