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Raymond Burr

1917 - 1993

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Raymond William Stacy Burr (May 21, 1917 – September 12, 1993) was a Canadian actor who had a lengthy Hollywood film career and portrayed the title roles in the television dramas Perry Mason and Ironside. Burr's early acting career included roles on Broadway, radio, television, and film, usually as the villain. He portrayed the suspected murderer in the Alfred Hitchcock thriller Rear Window (1954), and he also had a role in the 1956 film Godzilla, King of the Monsters!, which he reprised in the 1985 film Godzilla 1985. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Raymond Burr has received more than 8,651,730 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Raymond Burr is the 1,823rd most popular actor (up from 1,916th in 2019), the 142nd most popular biography from Canada (up from 149th in 2019) and the 45th most popular Canadian Actor.

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  • 37

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  • 2.07

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  • 4.94

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Raymond Burr ranks 1,823 out of 13,578. Before him are Stuart Whitman, Joel Grey, Mary Astor, Barbara Valentin, Donald O'Connor, and Marcia Gay Harden. After him are Peter Lawford, Peter Vaughan, Claude Akins, Rosa Albach-Retty, Matthew Modine, and Abe Vigoda.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Raymond Burr ranks 131. Before him are Maya Deren, Wieland Wagner, Văn Tiến Dũng, Samael Aun Weor, Infanta Alicia, Duchess of Calabria, and Semyon Kurkotkin. After him are Fulbert Youlou, Mak Dizdar, Shams Pahlavi, Brad Dexter, Kerim Kerimov, and Dabbs Greer. Among people deceased in 1993, Raymond Burr ranks 93. Before him are Shovkat Alakbarova, Christian Metz, Frunzik Mkrtchyan, Joseph Serchuk, Bruno Rossi, and GG Allin. After him are Euronymous, Sun Ra, Leo Löwenthal, Ugo Locatelli, Mario Evaristo, and Anna Sten.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Raymond Burr ranks 142 out of 1,622. Before him are Rocky Johnson (1944), Gil Evans (1912), Eugene Levy (1946), Tom Cavanagh (1963), James Craig Watson (1838), and Peter Cullen (1941). After him are Jordan Peterson (1962), David Foster (1949), William B. Davis (1938), Paul Watson (1950), Shania Twain (1965), and Gerald Bull (1928).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Raymond Burr ranks 45. Before him are Evangeline Lilly (1979), Joseph Wiseman (1918), Katheryn Winnick (1977), Eugene Levy (1946), Tom Cavanagh (1963), and Peter Cullen (1941). After him are William B. Davis (1938), Fay Wray (1907), Hayden Christensen (1981), Raymond Massey (1896), Henry Czerny (1959), and James Doohan (1920).

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Television and Movie Roles

Rear Window
Lars Thorwald
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Aug 1st 19548.4 / 10
Airplane II: The Sequel
Judge D.C. Simonton
A faulty computer causes a passenger space shuttle to head straight for the sun, and man-with-a-past Ted Striker must save the day and get the shuttle back on track – again – all the while trying to patch up his relationship with Elaine.
Dec 10th 19826.089 / 10
Godzilla, King of the Monsters!
Steve Martin
During an assignment, foreign correspondent Steve Martin spends a layover in Tokyo and is caught amid the rampage of an unstoppable prehistoric monster the Japanese call 'Godzilla'. The only hope for both Japan and the world lies on a secret weapon, which may prove more destructive than the monster itself.
May 18th 19566.597 / 10