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Phyllis Thaxter

1919 - 2012

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Phyllis St. Felix Thaxter (November 20, 1919 – August 14, 2012) was an American actress. She is best known for portraying Ellen Lawson in Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) and Martha Kent in Superman (1978). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Phyllis Thaxter has received more than 766,287 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Phyllis Thaxter is the 6,701st most popular actor (down from 6,062nd in 2019), the 9,981st most popular biography from United States (down from 9,396th in 2019) and the 3,219th most popular American Actor.

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  • 770k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 41.37

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.93

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Phyllis Thaxter ranks 6,701 out of 9,996Before her are Edith Massey, Yuko Takeuchi, Madelaine Petsch, Cho Jin-woong, Melissa Ponzio, and Stephanie Beacham. After her are Elyas M'Barek, Eriq Ebouaney, Sanaa Lathan, Kevin Cheng, Jasika Nicole, and Santiago Cabrera.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Phyllis Thaxter ranks 291Before her are Ross Bagdasarian, Lawrence Stone, Jayachamarajendra Wadiyar, Kaifi Azmi, Kurt Wires, and Marie Windsor. After her are Mary Midgley, Betty Garrett, Edward Brooke, Ernie Kovacs, Alexander Courage, and Alla Rakha. Among people deceased in 2012, Phyllis Thaxter ranks 394Before her are Mark Midler, Leszek Drogosz, Manuel Preciado Rebolledo, J. J. C. Smart, Vladimir Astapovsky, and Robert Hughes. After her are Adam Yauch, Nicolaas Govert de Bruijn, Ronald Stretton, John Connelly, Joel Goldsmith, and Rino Ferrario.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Phyllis Thaxter ranks 9,981 out of 18,182Before her are Edith Massey (1918), Dave Schultz (1959), Madelaine Petsch (1994), John B. Anderson (1922), Melissa Ponzio (1972), and Roderick Chisholm (1916). After her are Rosemary Casals (1948), William Inge (1913), Buddy Adler (1906), Herbert H. Lehman (1878), G. William Miller (1925), and Sanaa Lathan (1971).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Phyllis Thaxter ranks 3,219Before her are Jayma Mays (1979), Christian Brando (1958), Ken Berry (1933), Edith Massey (1918), Madelaine Petsch (1994), and Melissa Ponzio (1972). After her are Sanaa Lathan (1971), Kevin Cheng (1969), Jasika Nicole (1980), Robert Wuhl (1951), Jamie Clayton (1978), and Madge Kennedy (1891).

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