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Moses Gunn

1929 - 1993

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Moses Gunn (October 2, 1929 – December 16, 1993) was an American actor of stage and screen. An Obie Award-winning stage player, he is an alumnus of the Negro Ensemble Company. His 1962 off-Broadway debut was in Jean Genet's The Blacks, and his Broadway debut was in A Hand is on the Gate, an evening of African-American poetry. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Moses Gunn has received more than 1,091,626 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Moses Gunn is the 2,680th most popular actor (up from 3,283rd in 2019), the 4,175th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,099th in 2019) and the 1,217th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Moses Gunns by language

Over the past year Moses Gunn has had the most page views in the with 150,244 views, followed by German (26,262), and Italian (16,235). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Afrikaans (158.18%), Southern Azerbaijani (132.79%), and Haitian (114.55%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Moses Gunn ranks 2,680 out of 13,578. Before him are Sarah Siddons, James Karen, Vladimir Ivashov, James Marsden, Sunil Dutt, and Tamara Toumanova. After him are Don Adams, Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Troughton, Adrienne Barbeau, Ray Cooney, and Jüri Järvet.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Moses Gunn ranks 233. Before him are Luigi Taveri, Christian Marin, Gerhard Hanappi, Haruo Nakajima, Piero Cappuccilli, and Sunil Dutt. After him are Berry Gordy, Claude Goretta, Józef Glemp, Miyoshi Umeki, Liselotte Pulver, and Lolita Torres. Among people deceased in 1993, Moses Gunn ranks 127. Before him are Wang Zhen, David Koresh, Melchior Ndadaye, Stanley Myers, Cyril Cusack, and Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov. After him are Edward Bernard Raczyński, Nicanor Zabaleta, Karl Mai, Thurgood Marshall, Friedrich Dickel, and Hans Christian Blech.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Moses Gunn ranks 4,175 out of 20,380. Before him are James Karen (1923), James Marsden (1973), George Andrew Reisner (1867), Kellyanne Conway (1967), Rob Marshall (1960), and Stan Winston (1946). After him are Douglas Preston (1956), Maxwell Perkins (1884), Marc Mitscher (1887), Mike Porcaro (1955), Stanley Clarke (1951), and Don Adams (1923).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Moses Gunn ranks 1,217. Before him are Nick Cravat (1912), Alice Brady (1892), Douglas Fairbanks Jr. (1909), Eddie Bracken (1915), James Karen (1923), and James Marsden (1973). After him are Don Adams (1923), Jackie Earle Haley (1961), Adrienne Barbeau (1945), Harrison Ford (1884), Anne Francis (1930), and Alexandra Daddario (1986).

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Television and Movie Roles

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