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Michael Wilding

1912 - 1979

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Michael Charles Gauntlet Wilding (23 July 1912 – 8 July 1979) was an English stage, television, and film actor. He is best known for a series of films he made with Anna Neagle; he also made two films with Alfred Hitchcock, Under Capricorn (1949) and Stage Fright (1950); and he guest starred on Hitchcock's TV show in 1963. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Michael Wilding has received more than 867,181 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Michael Wilding is the 4,276th most popular actor (down from 3,878th in 2019), the 3,340th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,165th in 2019) and the 500th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 870k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.16

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Michael Wildings by language

Over the past year Michael Wilding has had the most page views in the with 238,847 views, followed by Spanish (15,880), and German (11,112). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malayalam (191.92%), Afrikaans (93.99%), and Indonesian (78.71%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Michael Wilding ranks 4,276 out of 13,578. Before him are Andrei Smirnov, László Szabó, Harrison Young, Rand Brooks, Priscilla Pointer, and Momoe Yamaguchi. After him are Justin Chambers, Sanjay Dutt, Kim Nam-gil, Jason Connery, Taina Elg, and Antony Starr.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Michael Wilding ranks 268. Before him are Alexander Mackendrick, Santiago Lovell, Alexandru Todea, Jaroslav Bouček, Héctor Socorro, and Ben Hogan. After him are Gyula Polgár, Martha Mödl, Mary McCarthy, István Balogh, Roberto Emílio da Cunha, and Georges Beaucourt. Among people deceased in 1979, Michael Wilding ranks 189. Before him are Bernt Evensen, Jan de Klerk, Corinne Griffith, Sigrid Fick, Gérard Blitz, and Ole Lund Kirkegaard. After him are Stan Kenton, Hans von Funck, Maurizio Arena, Nikolai Tikhonov, Mohamed Akid, and Dany Dauberson.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Michael Wilding ranks 3,340 out of 8,785. Before him are Thomas Middleton (1580), Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer (1897), Peter Bonetti (1941), William Lawes (1602), Henry Scott Tuke (1858), and Richard de Bury (1287). After him are Capability Brown (1716), Francis Hauksbee (1660), Aneka (1947), Philippa, 5th Countess of Ulster (1355), Charles Avison (1709), and William Bradford (1590).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Michael Wilding ranks 500. Before him are Tommy Cooper (1921), Ian McNeice (1950), Catherine Bell (1968), Clive Russell (1945), Eric Sykes (1923), and May Whitty (1865). After him are Rupert Graves (1963), Dominic Cooper (1978), Simon McBurney (1957), James Donald (1917), Gary Lewis (1957), and Alan Cumming (1965).

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Television and Movie Roles

Under Capricorn
Charles Adare
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 19496.032 / 10
Waterloo
Colonel Sir William Ponsonby
After defeating France and imprisoning Napoleon on Elba, ending two decades of war, Europe is shocked to find Napoleon has escaped and has caused the French Army to defect from the King back to him. The best of the British generals, the Duke of Wellington, beat Napolean's best generals in Spain and Portugal, but now must beat Napoleon himself with an Anglo Allied army.
Oct 26o 19707.1 / 10
Stage Fright
Det. Insp. Wilfried 'Ordinary' Smith
A struggling actress tries to help a friend prove his innocence when he's accused of murdering the husband of a high-society entertainer.
Feb 23o 19506.769 / 10