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Scott Wilson

1942 - 2018

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Scott Wilson (born William Delano Wilson; March 29, 1942 – October 6, 2018) was an American actor. He had more than 50 film credits, including In the Heat of the Night, In Cold Blood, The Great Gatsby, Dead Man Walking, Pearl Harbor, and Junebug. In 1980, Wilson received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture for his role in William Peter Blatty's The Ninth Configuration. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Scott Wilson has received more than 90,370 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Scott Wilson is the 764th most popular actor (down from 640th in 2019), the 1,380th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,186th in 2019) and the 367th most popular American Actor.

Scott Wilson is most famous for his role as Hershel Greene on the AMC show The Walking Dead.

Memorability Metrics

  • 90k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Scott Wilson ranks 764 out of 13,578. Before him are Martin Balsam, Wentworth Miller, Kelly Lynch, Max Wright, Horst Tappert, and Sofía Vergara. After him are Lila Kedrova, Annette Bening, David Duchovny, Charles Chaplin Jr., Dwight Schultz, and Ida Rubinstein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Scott Wilson ranks 100. Before him are Péter Medgyessy, Rose Francine Rogombé, Milan Milutinović, Michael York, Daniela Bianchi, and Margarethe von Trotta. After him are Mike Newell, Jacques Dubochet, Conrad Schumann, Daniel Dennett, Prince Michael of Kent, and Barry Levinson. Among people deceased in 2018, Scott Wilson ranks 61. Before him are Jean-Louis Tauran, Osamu Shimomura, Gérard Genette, Dorothy Malone, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, and Joël Robuchon. After him are Aaron Klug, Alan Bean, Claude Lanzmann, Sondra Locke, Dolores O'Riordan, and Thomas A. Steitz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Scott Wilson ranks 1,380 out of 20,380. Before him are Dorothy Vaughan (1910), Leland H. Hartwell (1939), E. Howard Hunt (1918), Kelly Lynch (1959), Max Wright (1943), and Bob Kane (1915). After him are Norman Borlaug (1914), Jim Lovell (1928), George Strait (1952), John Jacob Astor IV (1864), John Zorn (1953), and Annette Bening (1958).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Scott Wilson ranks 367. Before him are Robin Wright (1966), Cybill Shepherd (1950), Tyler Perry (1969), Martin Balsam (1919), Kelly Lynch (1959), and Max Wright (1943). After him are Annette Bening (1958), David Duchovny (1960), Charles Chaplin Jr. (1925), Dwight Schultz (1947), Dirk Benedict (1945), and Peter Weller (1947).

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