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Richard Barthelmess

1895 - 1963

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Richard Semler Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era. He starred opposite Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way Down East (1920) and was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Richard Barthelmess has received more than 390,710 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Richard Barthelmess is the 629th most popular actor (down from 601st in 2019), the 1,157th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,108th in 2019) and the 312th most popular American Actor.

Richard Barthelmess was an American actor, director, and producer. He is most famous for starring in the silent film The Sea Wolf (1924) and the sound film The Dawn Patrol (1930).

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  • 390k

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  • 61.68

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  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.98

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.23

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Richard Barthelmess ranks 629 out of 13,578. Before him are Steve Reeves, Gena Rowlands, Jeremy Renner, Vincent Price, Tom Berenger, and Ed Lauter. After him are Jennifer Jones, Rachel Weisz, Ian McDiarmid, Gong Li, Shia LaBeouf, and Louis Jourdan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Richard Barthelmess ranks 63. Before him are Hans-Georg von Friedeburg, Lázaro Cárdenas, Tadeusz Bór-Komorowski, Kurt Zeitzler, Vasily Blokhin, and Wilhelm Kempff. After him are Clara Haskil, B. H. Liddell Hart, Friedrich Jeckeln, Marcel Pagnol, Edna Purviance, and Robert Graves. Among people deceased in 1963, Richard Barthelmess ranks 33. Before him are Theodore von Kármán, Oleg Penkovsky, Jacques Hadamard, Richard Baer, Kurt Zeitzler, and Józef Gosławski. After him are Karl Bühler, Georg-Hans Reinhardt, Pedro Armendáriz, Michael Rockefeller, Piero Manzoni, and Sivananda Saraswati.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Barthelmess ranks 1,157 out of 20,380. Before him are Stan Getz (1927), Harrison Schmitt (1935), Tom Berenger (1949), Vannevar Bush (1890), F. Sherwood Rowland (1927), and Ed Lauter (1938). After him are Jennifer Jones (1919), Gina Haspel (1956), Richard Winters (1918), Lloyd Austin (1953), Shia LaBeouf (1986), and Tom Morello (1964).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Richard Barthelmess ranks 312. Before him are Steve Reeves (1926), Gena Rowlands (1930), Jeremy Renner (1971), Vincent Price (1911), Tom Berenger (1949), and Ed Lauter (1938). After him are Jennifer Jones (1919), Shia LaBeouf (1986), Anjelica Huston (1951), Lisa Kudrow (1963), William Fichtner (1956), and Sissy Spacek (1949).

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Television and Movie Roles

Broken Blossoms
Cheng Huan
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
May 13th 19196.9 / 10
Only Angels Have Wings
Bat Mac Pherson
A traveling performer arrives at a remote South American port town where the head of an air freight service must risk his pilots' lives to earn a major contract.
May 15th 19397.3 / 10
Way Down East
David Bartlett
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Sep 3rd 19206.9 / 10