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Rod Serling

1924 - 1975

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Rodman Edward Serling (December 25, 1924 – June 28, 1975) was an American screenwriter and television producer best known for his live television dramas of the 1950s and his anthology television series The Twilight Zone. Serling was active in politics, both on and off the screen, and helped form television industry standards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rod Serling has received more than 6,270,931 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Rod Serling is the 4,249th most popular writer (down from 4,046th in 2019), the 5,828th most popular biography from United States (down from 5,608th in 2019) and the 473rd most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 47.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.83

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Rod Serling ranks 4,249 out of 5,755. Before him are Johann Beckmann, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Sophia Parnok, Clare Hollingworth, Leopold Andrian, and Robert Kerr. After him are Mikhail Kheraskov, Adolf Friedrich von Schack, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Igor Severyanin, Léon Damas, and Mervyn Peake.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Rod Serling ranks 271. Before him are Jane Greer, Heinz Müller, Lloyd Alexander, Sonny Stitt, Ferdinando Terruzzi, and Ricardo Infante. After him are Oldřich Lipský, Bobo Brazil, J. D. Tippit, Tatyana Lioznova, Rudy Van Gelder, and Carlos Humberto Romero. Among people deceased in 1975, Rod Serling ranks 157. Before him are Nils Eriksen, Paul Verhoeven, Nilo Murtinho Braga, Alf Andersen, Piero Dusio, and Max Gluckman. After him are Fritz Wotruba, Gösta Andersson, James Blish, Mascha Kaléko, Bas Jan Ader, and Valeri Popenchenko.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Rod Serling ranks 5,828 out of 18,182. Before him are Larry Van Kriedt (1954), Smedley Butler (1881), Henry Russell (1904), John Diehl (1950), Mary J. Blige (1971), and Frank Schlesinger (1871). After him are William Shepherd (1949), Seán Patrick O'Malley (1944), Jack Sherman (1956), Anna Sui (1952), Gilbert Gottfried (1955), and Colleen Camp (1953).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Rod Serling ranks 473. Before him are John Gray (1951), Fran Lebowitz (1950), E. E. Smith (1890), William Gibson (1914), Tracy Chevalier (1962), and MacKenzie Scott (1970). After him are John D. MacDonald (1916), Anita Loos (1889), William Gaddis (1922), C. L. Moore (1911), James Lee Burke (1936), and Elizabeth Gilbert (1969).

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