ACTOR

Milton Berle

1908 - 2002

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Milton Berle (born Mendel Berlinger; Yiddish: ‏מענדעל בערלינגער; July 12, 1908 – March 27, 2002) was an American actor and comedian. His career as an entertainer spanned over eight decades, first in silent films and on stage as a child actor, then in radio, movies and television. As the host of NBC's Texaco Star Theatre (1948–1953), he was the first major American television star and was known to millions of viewers as "Uncle Miltie" and "Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Milton Berle has received more than 4,550,445 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia. Milton Berle is the 3,779th most popular actor (up from 3,881st in 2019), the 5,652nd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,895th in 2019) and the 1,711th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.6M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 56.45

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.09

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Milton Berle ranks 3,779 out of 13,578. Before him are Julian Beck, Saïd Taghmaoui, Jessie Royce Landis, Marilyn Burns, Isuzu Yamada, and Masayuki Mori. After him are Amjad Khan, Thure Lindhardt, Prithviraj Kapoor, Victor Lanoux, Katalin Karády, and Joe Lando.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Milton Berle ranks 233. Before him are Teizo Takeuchi, Tommaso Landolfi, Tullio Pinelli, Helen Jacobs, Francesco Camusso, and Eddie Tolan. After him are Hugo Distler, Nikolai Kamanin, Jules Vandooren, Eugen Suchoň, Mohammad Natsir, and Jagjivan Ram. Among people deceased in 2002, Milton Berle ranks 186. Before him are Morihiro Saito, Richard Helms, Abdel Rahman Badawi, Marcel Kint, Mikhail Devyataev, and Alan Lomax. After him are Luise Rinser, Tita Merello, Lou Thesz, Kristen Nygaard, Desmond Hoyte, and Ramiro de León Carpio.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Milton Berle ranks 5,652 out of 20,380. Before him are Bob Gale (1951), William Lloyd Garrison (1805), Country Joe McDonald (1942), James Blish (1921), Axeman of New Orleans (null), and J. William Fulbright (1905). After him are Rube Goldberg (1883), Big Bill Broonzy (1903), Joe Lando (1961), M. C. Gainey (1948), Phil McGraw (1950), and John Wesley Powell (1834).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Milton Berle ranks 1,711. Before him are Harold Lockwood (1887), Shelley Long (1949), Roger E. Mosley (1938), Julian Beck (1925), Jessie Royce Landis (1896), and Marilyn Burns (1949). After him are Joe Lando (1961), M. C. Gainey (1948), Mark Pellegrino (1965), Irving Cummings (1888), Kurt Fuller (1953), and JoBeth Williams (1948).

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