ACTOR

Pat O'Brien

1899 - 1983

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William Joseph Patrick O'Brien (Irish: Pádraig Ó Briain; November 11, 1899 – October 15, 1983) was an American film actor with more than 100 screen credits. Of Irish descent, he often played Irish and Irish-American characters and was referred to as "Hollywood's Irishman in Residence" in the press. One of the best-known screen actors of the 1930s and 1940s, he played priests, cops, military figures, pilots, and reporters. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Pat O'Brien has received more than 32,541 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Pat O'Brien is the 5,064th most popular actor (down from 4,161st in 2019), the 7,374th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,269th in 2019) and the 2,277th most popular American Actor.

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  • 33k

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  • 47.04

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.20

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Pat O'Brien ranks 5,064 out of 13,578. Before him are Alexandra Paul, Ned Luke, Kenyu Horiuchi, Mario Cimarro, Renée Soutendijk, and Harvey Fierstein. After him are Medea Japaridze, Gong Hyo-jin, Diana Barrymore, Isabelle Carré, Milly D'Abbraccio, and Mary Martin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, Pat O'Brien ranks 239. Before him are Curtis Bernhardt, Frances Yates, Harald Tammer, Yervand Kochar, Charlotte Auerbach, and James Smith McDonnell. After him are Juan Arremón, Hans Jacob Nielsen, John Qualen, Ian Keith, Maurice Carême, and Gregory Breit. Among people deceased in 1983, Pat O'Brien ranks 199. Before him are Qiao Guanhua, Boris Hagelin, Eva Pawlik, Anton Buttigieg, Johan Richthoff, and Marjorie Cox Crawford. After him are Miquel Crusafont i Pairó, George Bruns, Franco Giorgetti, Buster Crabbe, Armand Lanoux, and Jacqueline Logan.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Pat O'Brien ranks 7,374 out of 20,380. Before him are Jean Stapleton (1923), Alexandra Paul (1963), Frederick Terman (1900), Ned Luke (1958), Harvey Fierstein (1954), and Megan Rapinoe (1985). After him are Katherine Sophie Dreier (1877), Diana Barrymore (1921), Tony Zale (1913), Joe Sutter (1921), Ol' Dirty Bastard (1968), and Lawrence Gordon (1936).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Pat O'Brien ranks 2,277. Before him are Pat Crawford Brown (1929), Jane Curtin (1947), Jean Stapleton (1923), Alexandra Paul (1963), Ned Luke (1958), and Harvey Fierstein (1954). After him are Diana Barrymore (1921), Mary Martin (1913), Nicholas Gonzalez (1976), Jack Weston (1924), Rick Yune (1971), and Loretta Devine (1949).

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