ACTOR

Rod Taylor

1930 - 2015

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Rodney Sturt Taylor (11 January 1930 – 7 January 2015) was an Australian actor. He appeared in more than 50 feature films, including Young Cassidy (1965), Nobody Runs Forever (1968), The Train Robbers (1973) and A Matter of Wife... Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rod Taylor has received more than 4,031,955 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 40 in 2019). Rod Taylor is the 992nd most popular actor (down from 905th in 2019), the 41st most popular biography from Australia and the 12th most popular Australian Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 4.0M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 42

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.46

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.53

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Rod Taylor ranks 992 out of 13,578Before him are Paul Muni, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman, Jean Dujardin, Emilio Estevez, and Billy Crystal. After him are Helen McCrory, Lloyd Bridges, Daniel Olbrychski, Carrie-Anne Moss, Michael Gough, and Geneviève Bujold.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1930, Rod Taylor ranks 103Before him are Harvey Milk, Itamar Franco, Mauro Ramos, Martin Karplus, José Sarney, and John Frankenheimer. After him are Sławomir Mrożek, Colin Dexter, Paul Veyne, Toru Takemitsu, Friedrich Gulda, and Sonny Rollins. Among people deceased in 2015, Rod Taylor ranks 76Before him are Robert Loggia, Khaled al-Asaad, Kurt Masur, Dettmar Cramer, Licio Gelli, and Chandra Bahadur Dangi. After him are Árpád Göncz, Patrick Macnee, Infante Carlos, Duke of Calabria, Cabu, Cynthia Lennon, and Ingrid van Houten-Groeneveld.

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In Australia

Among people born in Australia, Rod Taylor ranks 41 out of 1,143Before him are John Noble (1948), Kylie Minogue (1968), Joan Sutherland (1926), Alan Jones (1946), Lisa Gerrard (1961), and Phil Rudd (1954). After him are Roy Emerson (1936), Johnny Logan (1954), Barry Marshall (1951), Eric Bana (1968), Jonathan Hyde (1948), and Liam Hemsworth (1990).

Among ACTORS In Australia

Among actors born in Australia, Rod Taylor ranks 12Before him are Heath Ledger (1979), Paul Hogan (1939), Errol Flynn (1909), Hugh Jackman (1968), Lionel Logue (1880), and John Noble (1948). After him are Eric Bana (1968), Jonathan Hyde (1948), Liam Hemsworth (1990), Judith Anderson (1897), Simon Baker (1969), and Cassandra Harris (1948).

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