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Paul Shenar

1936 - 1989

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Albert Paul Shenar (February 12, 1936 − October 11, 1989) was an American actor and theater director, known for portraying the evil rat Jenner in Don Bluth's film, The Secret of NIMH (1982) and Bolivian drug lord Alejandro Sosa in Scarface (1983). A veteran Broadway and Shakespearean actor, he was one of the twenty-seven founding members of the American Conservatory Theater. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Paul Shenar has received more than 2,135,447 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Paul Shenar is the 2,732nd most popular actor (up from 3,002nd in 2019), the 4,252nd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,696th in 2019) and the 1,239th most popular American Actor.

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  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.99

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.97

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Paul Shenar ranks 2,732 out of 13,578. Before him are John Williams, Toby Jones, Gary Coleman, Pat Benatar, Liselotte Pulver, and Lolita Torres. After him are Tania Mallet, Claudio Brook, Beatrice Straight, Georges Marchal, Roy Rogers, and Chris Hardwick.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1936, Paul Shenar ranks 252. Before him are Frank Serpico, Stanislav Govorukhin, Toralf Engan, Carla Fracci, W. D. Hamilton, and Edvard Radzinsky. After him are Saburō Kawabuchi, Walter Lewin, Ante Žanetić, Francisco Ibáñez Talavera, Kazuo Koike, and Michel Aumont. Among people deceased in 1989, Paul Shenar ranks 136. Before him are George C. Homans, Imre Németh, Alex Thépot, Bernard-Marie Koltès, Diana Vreeland, and Sourou-Migan Apithy. After him are Arsenie Boca, Uichiro Hatta, Choekyi Gyaltsen, 10th Panchen Lama, Edoardo Amaldi, José López Rega, and Merab Kostava.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Paul Shenar ranks 4,252 out of 20,380. Before him are Sarah Goodridge (1788), John Paine (1870), Walter Short (1880), Carl Wilson (1946), Gregory Jarvis (1944), and Samuel Little (1940). After him are Ellen Swallow Richards (1842), Jordan Rudess (1956), Beatrice Straight (1914), James Gunn (1966), Eric Carmen (1949), and Roy Rogers (1911).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Paul Shenar ranks 1,239. Before him are Paul Wesley (1982), Stanley Kamel (1943), Edward Furlong (1977), Linda Fiorentino (1958), Gary Coleman (1968), and Pat Benatar (1953). After him are Beatrice Straight (1914), Roy Rogers (1911), Chris Hardwick (1971), Connie Booth (1944), Wallace Beery (1885), and Roseanne Barr (1952).

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