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Saeed Jaffrey

1929 - 2015

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Saeed Jaffrey (8 January 1929 – 15 November 2015) was a British-Indian actor. His career covered film, radio, stage and television roles over six decades and more than 150 British, American, and Indian movies. During the 1980s and 1990s he was considered to be Britain's highest-profile Asian actor, thanks to his leading roles in the movie My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and television series The Jewel in the Crown (1984), Tandoori Nights (1985–1987) and Little Napoleons (1994). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Saeed Jaffrey has received more than 5,110,950 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 26 in 2019). Saeed Jaffrey is the 5,431st most popular actor (down from 4,837th in 2019), the 614th most popular biography from India (down from 557th in 2019) and the 80th most popular Indian Actor.

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  • 5.1M

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  • 44.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 5,431 out of 9,996. Before him are Talia Balsam, David Hewlett, Alan Reed, Indira Varma, Mark Lester, and Patrick Kilpatrick. After him are Leslie Bibb, Andy Devine, Silvio Orlando, Heiner Lauterbach, María Corda, and Uttam Kumar.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 404. Before him are Judith Jarvis Thomson, Utpal Dutt, Bob Brookmeyer, Sergio Cervato, Mark Rydell, and Benny Andersen. After him are Ralph McQuarrie, Pedro Nájera, Mateja Matevski, Kazimir Hnatow, Aulis Kallakorpi, and Zdzisław Krzyszkowiak. Among people deceased in 2015, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 336. Before him are Rakhat Aliyev, Zhanna Yorkina, Nirmala Joshi, David Canary, Verne Gagne, and Andy White. After him are Haskell Wexler, Bengt Berndtsson, Mary Ellen Mark, Gennadiy Seleznyov, Mwepu Ilunga, and Vladimir Kesarev.

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In India

Among people born in India, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 614 out of 1,493. Before him are Lalu Prasad Yadav (1948), C. R. Rao (1920), Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874), Nirmala Joshi (1934), B. V. Doshi (1927), and Jeannette Altwegg (1930). After him are Uttam Kumar (1926), Shabana Azmi (1950), Dimple Kapadia (1957), Ashok Kumar (1911), Nitish Kumar (1951), and Gurdial Singh (1933).

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Among ACTORS In India

Among actors born in India, Saeed Jaffrey ranks 80. Before him are Freida Pinto (1984), Tiger Shroff (1990), Persis Khambatta (1948), Abhishek Bachchan (1976), Randhir Kapoor (1947), and Vijay Amritraj (1953). After him are Uttam Kumar (1926), Shabana Azmi (1950), Dimple Kapadia (1957), Ashok Kumar (1911), Asha Parekh (1942), and Zeenat Aman (1951).

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