ACTOR

Ray Cooney

1932 - Today

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Raymond George Alfred Cooney OBE (born 30 May 1932) is an English playwright, actor, and director. His biggest success, Run for Your Wife (1983), ran for nine years in London's West End and is its longest-running comedy. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ray Cooney has received more than 200,979 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ray Cooney is the 2,685th most popular actor (up from 3,290th in 2019), the 2,375th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,794th in 2019) and the 323rd most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 200k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.11

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 15

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.48

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Ray Coonies by language

Over the past year Ray Cooney has had the most page views in the with 23,861 views, followed by Russian (9,319), and French (6,355). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (54.39%), French (42.36%), and Hungarian (29.61%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ray Cooney ranks 2,685 out of 13,578. Before him are Tamara Toumanova, Moses Gunn, Don Adams, Jackie Earle Haley, Patrick Troughton, and Adrienne Barbeau. After him are Jüri Järvet, Harrison Ford, Anne Francis, Alexandra Daddario, Lois Smith, and Sandrine Bonnaire.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, Ray Cooney ranks 224. Before him are Bruno S., Nikolay Rukavishnikov, Robert Anton Wilson, Antti Hyvärinen, Joanna Chmielewska, and Enzo Mari. After him are Arnold Wesker, Henri Namphy, Per Nørgård, Siegfried Rauch, Mika Antić, and Henri Nouwen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ray Cooney ranks 2,375 out of 8,785. Before him are Sarah Siddons (1755), Jock Stein (1922), John of Eltham, Earl of Cornwall (1316), Patrick Troughton (1920), Charles Burney (1726), and James Nasmyth (1808). After him are Margaret of Scotland, Queen of Norway (1261), Edmund Beaufort, 2nd Duke of Somerset (1406), Ælfgifu of Northampton (990), Abhisit Vejjajiva (1964), Jamie Vardy (1987), and Peter Mayle (1939).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Ray Cooney ranks 323. Before him are Rachel Roberts (1927), David Tomlinson (1917), Murray Head (1946), Jamie Dornan (1982), Sarah Siddons (1755), and Patrick Troughton (1920). After him are John Mahoney (1940), Hayley Atwell (1982), John Williams (1903), Toby Jones (1966), Tania Mallet (1941), and Damian Lewis (1971).

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Television and Movie Roles

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Funny Money
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