ACTOR

Rudolph Valentino

1895 - 1926

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Rodolfo Pietro Filiberto Raffaello Guglielmi di Valentina d'Antonguella (May 6, 1895 – August 23, 1926), known professionally as Rudolph Valentino and nicknamed The Latin Lover, was an Italian actor based in the United States who starred in several well-known silent films including The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, The Sheik, Blood and Sand, The Eagle, and The Son of the Sheik. Valentino was a sex symbol of the 1920s, known in Hollywood as the "Latin Lover" (a title invented for him by Hollywood moguls), the "Great Lover", or simply Valentino. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rudolph Valentino has received more than 5,340,648 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Rudolph Valentino is the 287th most popular actor (down from 245th in 2019), the 656th most popular biography from Italy (down from 565th in 2019) and the 19th most popular Italian Actor.

Rudolph Valentino was a silent film actor who became a sex symbol in the 1920s. He starred in many films including "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" and "Blood and Sand."

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  • 5.3M

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  • 66.53

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Rudolph Valentino ranks 287 out of 13,578. Before him are William Holden, Christopher Reeve, Pola Negri, Nathalie Delon, Michael Keaton, and Farrah Fawcett. After him are Sophie Marceau, Sonny Chiba, Anthony Perkins, Thespis, Jeff Bridges, and Tobin Bell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1895, Rudolph Valentino ranks 32. Before him are Aleksandr Vasilevsky, Semyon Timoshenko, Anastas Mikoyan, Gerhard Domagk, Cemal Gürsel, and Ragnar Frisch. After him are Oskar Dirlewanger, Artturi Ilmari Virtanen, Babe Ruth, Wilhelm Burgdorf, László Moholy-Nagy, and Khorloogiin Choibalsan. Among people deceased in 1926, Rudolph Valentino ranks 16. Before him are Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, Camillo Golgi, Sunjong of Korea, Symon Petliura, Emil Kraepelin, and Louise of Sweden. After him are Aleksei Brusilov, Gertrude Bell, Nikola Pašić, Margherita of Savoy, Olga Constantinovna of Russia, and John Browning.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Rudolph Valentino ranks 656 out of 5,161. Before him are Giovanni Gabrieli (1557), Bernardo Provenzano (1933), Desiderius (710), Pope Telesphorus (100), Gabriele Amorth (1925), and Giovanni Giustiniani (1418). After him are Aulus Gellius (123), Domenichino (1581), Piero the Unfortunate (1472), Pope John XIII (930), Michelozzo (1396), and Paul the Deacon (720).

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Among ACTORS In Italy

Among actors born in Italy, Rudolph Valentino ranks 19. Before him are Anna Magnani (1908), Raffaella Carrà (1943), Giuliano Gemma (1938), Virna Lisi (1936), Silvana Mangano (1930), and Vittorio Gassman (1922). After him are Lino Ventura (1919), Giancarlo Giannini (1942), Gian Maria Volonté (1933), Michele Placido (1946), Alberto Sordi (1920), and Lucia Bosè (1931).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Sheik
Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan
Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert. The free-spirited Diana recoils from his passionate embraces and yearns to be released. Later, allowed to go into the desert, she escapes and makes her way across the sands...
Nov 20o 19215.9 / 10
The Eagle
Lt. Vladimir Dubrovsky / The Black Eagle / Marcel Le Blanc
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.
Nov 8o 19256.298 / 10
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Julio Desnoyers
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
Mar 6o 19216.762 / 10