ACTOR

Ronnie Barker

1929 - 2005

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Ronald William George Barker (25 September 1929 – 3 October 2005) was an English actor, comedian and writer. He was known for roles in British comedy television series such as Porridge, The Two Ronnies, and Open All Hours. Barker began acting in Oxford amateur dramatics while working as a bank clerk, having dropped out of higher education. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ronnie Barker has received more than 3,051,025 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Ronnie Barker is the 8,638th most popular actor (down from 8,474th in 2019), the 5,895th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,596th in 2019) and the 958th most popular British Actor.

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  • 3.1M

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  • 40.06

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  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ronnie Barker ranks 8,638 out of 13,578. Before him are Kenichi Matsuyama, Ann Little, Peggy Cummins, Tamala Jones, Dustin Clare, and Gail O'Grady. After him are Carmine Giovinazzo, Frances Gifford, Enrique Murciano, Henry Lau, Buğra Gülsoy, and Malaika Arora.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Ronnie Barker ranks 531. Before him are Art Taylor, Charles Manring, Paul England, Daphne Hasenjäger, Ian Stewart, and Tom Foley. After him are Al Alvarez, Betty Boothroyd, Shirley Ann Grau, Creed Taylor, George Clayton Johnson, and Yash Johar. Among people deceased in 2005, Ronnie Barker ranks 355. Before him are Kazimierz Lipień, Eugene J. Martin, Lucky Thompson, André Testut, Mason Adams, and Herbert Goldstein. After him are Alan Dundes, Domino Harvey, August Wilson, Jesús Iglesias, Ted Ditchburn, and Kâzım Koyuncu.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Ronnie Barker ranks 5,895 out of 8,785. Before him are Ruth Wilson (1982), Graham Whitehead (1922), Jimmy Dickinson (1925), Peggy Cummins (1925), Gerry Peyton (1956), and Alan Noble (1885). After him are Ali Carter (1979), Alfred Enoch (1988), Mike Wilds (1946), David Davis (1948), Marcus du Sautoy (1965), and Nathaniel Philip Rothschild (1971).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Ronnie Barker ranks 958. Before him are Lilian Bond (1908), Paula Malcomson (1970), Joe Gilgun (1984), Paul Eddington (1927), Ruth Wilson (1982), and Peggy Cummins (1925). After him are Alfred Enoch (1988), George Blagden (1989), June Brown (1927), Zawe Ashton (1984), Joseph Mawle (1974), and Lee Evans (1964).

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Television and Movie Roles

Open All Hours
Open All Hours is a BBC sitcom written by Roy Clarke and starring Ronnie Barker as a miserly shop keeper and David Jason as his put-upon nephew who works as his errand boy.
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Porridge
Norman Stanley Fletcher
Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.
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Porridge
Norman Stanley Fletcher
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it.
Aug 12th 19796.7 / 10