ACTOR

Sessue Hayakawa

1886 - 1973

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Kintarō Hayakawa (Japanese: 早川 金太郎, Hepburn: Hayakawa Kintarō, June 10, 1886 – November 23, 1973), known professionally as Sessue Hayakawa (早川 雪洲, Hayakawa Sesshū), was a Japanese actor and a matinée idol. He was a popular star in Hollywood during the silent film era of the 1910s and early 1920s. Hayakawa was the first actor of Asian descent to achieve stardom as a leading man in the United States and Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sessue Hayakawa has received more than 2,068,958 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Sessue Hayakawa is the 1,013th most popular actor (up from 1,388th in 2019), the 391st most popular biography from Japan (up from 545th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Japanese Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 64.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.49

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.67

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 1,013 out of 13,578. Before him are Madeleine Stowe, June Carter Cash, Paul Michael Glaser, Eva Mendes, Tony Leung Chiu-wai, and Helene Weigel. After him are Donna Reed, Kabir Bedi, Ian Somerhalder, Sterling Hayden, Mary McDonnell, and Djimon Hounsou.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 62. Before him are Rex Stout, Raoul Hausmann, Frank Lloyd, Gyula Gömbös, Karl Korsch, and Nikolay Gumilyov. After him are Werner Kempf, Hugh Lofting, Mary Wigman, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Nobutake Kondō, and Walter H. Schottky. Among people deceased in 1973, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 65. Before him are Karl Löwith, Milunka Savić, Robert Siodmak, Károly Kerényi, Edward Steichen, and E. E. Evans-Pritchard. After him are Robert Smithson, Soong Ai-ling, Katina Paxinou, Alan Watts, José Villalonga, and Yaakov Dori.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 391 out of 6,245. Before him are Akira Yoshino (1948), Franklin J. Schaffner (1920), Yoshirō Mori (1937), Hōjō Masako (1156), Takeo Wakabayashi (1907), and Takeichi Nishi (1902). After him are Shigeo Sugimoto (1926), Yoshio Furukawa (1934), Yukiya Amano (1947), Toru Takemitsu (1930), Tokugawa Ienari (1773), and Fusajiro Yamauchi (1859).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 11. Before him are Joan Fontaine (1917), Ken Watanabe (1959), Takashi Shimura (1905), Setsuko Hara (1920), Hiroyuki Sanada (1960), and Tatsuya Nakadai (1932). After him are Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa (1950), Akiko Wakabayashi (1941), Kōji Yakusho (1956), Victoria Principal (1950), Momoko Kōchi (1932), and Hibari Misora (1937).

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