ACTOR

Mikhail Zharov

1899 - 1981

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Mikhail Ivanovich Zharov (Russian: Михаи́л Ива́нович Жа́ров; 27 October 1899 – 15 December 1981) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actor and director. People's Artist of the USSR (1949) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1974).He studied under the prominent director Theodore Komisarjevsky and debuted in Yakov Protazanov's Aelita (1924). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mikhail Zharov has received more than 27,903 page views. His biography is available in 27 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Mikhail Zharov is the 4,014th most popular actor (up from 4,139th in 2019), the 1,634th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,602nd in 2019) and the 76th most popular Russian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 28k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 49.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 27

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.30

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.78

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Over the past year Mikhail Zharov has had the most page views in the with 103,688 views, followed by English (3,344), and Ukrainian (1,256). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Crimean Tatar (807.81%), Ido (636.67%), and Italian (265.28%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Mikhail Zharov ranks 4,014 out of 13,578. Before him are Hans Moser, Assumpta Serna, Gary Dourdan, Don Wilson, Patrick Bergin, and Eddie Marsan. After him are John Agar, John Randolph, Michael J. Pollard, Ingrid van Bergen, Emily Kinney, and Caitriona Balfe.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Mikhail Zharov ranks 208. Before him are Louise Nevelson, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Colleen Moore, Juan Trippe, Max Petitpierre, and Jafar Jabbarly. After him are El-Registan, Wen Yiduo, Hoagy Carmichael, Elfriede Lohse-Wächtler, Otto E. Neugebauer, and Eva Le Gallienne. Among people deceased in 1981, Mikhail Zharov ranks 156. Before him are Ernesto Prinoth, Martyn Lloyd-Jones, Yury Trifonov, Lev Atamanov, Juan Trippe, and Jaap Bakema. After him are László Raffinsky, Mark Donskoy, Beulah Bondi, Tadeusz Kotarbiński, Jack Northrop, and Delfo Cabrera.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Mikhail Zharov ranks 1,634 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksandr Stoletov (1839), Valentin Lebedev (1942), Nikolai Slichenko (1934), Mikhail Khorobrit (1229), Eduard Malofeyev (1942), and Igor Severyanin (1887). After him are Yuri Ozerov (1921), Pyotr Chikhachyov (1808), Alexander Esenin-Volpin (1924), Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak (1852), Natalya Andreychenko (1956), and Vasily Agapkin (1884).

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Among ACTORS In Russia

Among actors born in Russia, Mikhail Zharov ranks 76. Before him are Klara Rumyanova (1929), Natalya Bondarchuk (1950), Gennady Khazanov (1945), Mikhail Shchepkin (1788), Leonid Filatov (1946), and Nikolai Kryuchkov (1911). After him are Natalya Andreychenko (1956), Vladimir Mashkov (1963), Natalya Arinbasarova (1946), Inna Makarova (1926), Aleksandr Belyavsky (1932), and Sergey Shakurov (1942).

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Television and Movie Roles

Chess Fever
House Painter
With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.
Dec 21o 19256.667 / 10
Ivan the Terrible, Part I
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
Set during the early part of his reign, Ivan faces betrayal from the aristocracy and even his closest friends as he seeks to unite the Russian people. Sergei Eisenstein's final film, this is the first part of a three-part biopic of Tsar Ivan IV of Russia, which was never completed due to the producer's dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's attempts to use forbidden experimental filming techniques and excessive cost overruns. The second part was completed but not released for a decade after Eisenstein's death and a change of heart in the USSR government toward his work; the third part was only in its earliest stage of filming when shooting was stopped altogether.
Nov 11o 19447.4 / 10
Ivan the Terrible, Part II: The Boyars' Plot
Czar's Guard Malyuta Skuratov
This is the second part of a projected three-part epic biopic of Russian Czar Ivan Grozny, undertaken by Soviet film-maker Sergei Eisenstein at the behest of Josef Stalin. Production of the epic was stopped before the third part could be filmed, due to producer dissatisfaction with Eisenstein's introducing forbidden experimental filming techniques into the material, more evident in this part than the first part. As it was, this second part was banned from showings until after the deaths of both Eisenstein and Stalin, and a change of attitude by the subsequent heads of the Soviet government. In this part, as Ivan the Terrible attempts to consolidate his power by establishing a personal army, his political rivals, the Russian boyars, plot to assassinate him.
Oct 10o 19587.5 / 10