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Patty Duke

1946 - 2016

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Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (December 14, 1946 – March 29, 2016) was an American actress. Over the course of her acting career, she was the recipient of an Academy Award, two Golden Globe Awards, three Primetime Emmy Awards, and a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. At age 15, Duke portrayed Helen Keller in the film The Miracle Worker (1962), a role she had originated on Broadway. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Patty Duke has received more than 11,216,872 page views. Her biography is available in 49 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Patty Duke is the 2,820th most popular actor (up from 3,361st in 2019), the 4,373rd most popular biography from United States (up from 5,218th in 2019) and the 1,277th most popular American Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 11M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 49

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.69

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.24

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Patty Dukes by language

Over the past year Patty Duke has had the most page views in the with 1,165,226 views, followed by Spanish (33,581), and Italian (18,658). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Russian (130.52%), Afrikaans (94.97%), and Simple English (84.39%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Patty Duke ranks 2,820 out of 13,578. Before her are John Callen, Dave Foley, Russ Tamblyn, George Harris, Shaun Toub, and Katherine Kelly Lang. After her are Fatma Girik, Madeleine Renaud, Jon Cryer, Lydia Shum, Simon Yam, and Eileen Brennan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Patty Duke ranks 324. Before her are Lesley Ann Warren, Tyne Daly, Nicolau dos Reis Lobato, María Baxa, John Callen, and Peter Sutcliffe. After her are Paul Smith, Antonio Fargas, Jimmy Buffett, Keith Mitchell, Eliades Ochoa, and Dragutin Šurbek. Among people deceased in 2016, Patty Duke ranks 213. Before her are Georges Cottier, Arnold Wesker, Vilmos Zsigmond, Pete Burns, Naná Vasconcelos, and Signe Toly Anderson. After her are Bernard Fox, Paulo Evaristo Arns, Jamshid Amouzegar, Yang Jiang, Jon Polito, and Martin Gray.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Patty Duke ranks 4,373 out of 20,380. Before her are James M. Gavin (1907), Lucretia Mott (1793), Katherine Kelly Lang (1961), Evelyn Furtsch (1914), Scott Bradley (1891), and Benny Carter (1907). After her are Wilson Bentley (1865), Charlie Christian (1916), Jon Cryer (1965), Booker T. Washington (1856), Helen Levitt (1913), and Eileen Brennan (1932).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Patty Duke ranks 1,277. Before her are Josh Radnor (1974), Anthony Heald (1944), Bud Cort (1948), Robert Wisdom (1953), Russ Tamblyn (1934), and Katherine Kelly Lang (1961). After her are Jon Cryer (1965), Eileen Brennan (1932), Roy Thinnes (1938), Lena Horne (1917), Colm Feore (1958), and Amy Madigan (1950).

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Television and Movie Roles

Amityville: The Evil Escapes
Nancy Evans
After moving into their matriarch's gothic seaside mansion, the Evans family soon becomes host to an uninvited demonic force in the form of a mysterious lamp that once resided in the Amityville house.
May 12o 19894.5 / 10
Valley of the Dolls
Neely O'Hara
In New York City, bright but naive New Englander Anne Welles becomes a secretary at a theatrical law firm, where she falls in love with attorney Lyon Burke. Anne befriends up-and-coming singer Neely O'Hara, whose dynamic talent threatens aging star Helen Lawson and beautiful but talentless actress Jennifer North. The women experience success and failure in love and work, leading to heartbreak, addiction and tragedy.
Dec 27o 19676 / 10
The Miracle Worker
Helen Keller
The true story of the frightening, lonely world of silence and darkness of 7-year-old Helen Keller who, since infancy, has never seen the sky, heard her mother's voice or expressed her innermost feelings. Then Annie Sullivan, a 20-year-old teacher from Boston, arrives. Having just recently regained her own sight, the no-nonsense Annie reaches out to Helen through the power of touch, the only tool they have in common, and leads her bold pupil on a miraculous journey from fear and isolation to happiness and light.
May 23o 19627.8 / 10