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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 1,784,921 page views. His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Sessue Hayakawa is the 1,392nd most popular actor (down from 1,357th in 2019), the 547th most popular biography from Japan (up from 583rd in 2019) and the 18th most popular Japanese Actor.

Memorability Metrics

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  • 55.68

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 34

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.01

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 1,392 out of 9,996. Before him are Martin Freeman, Melissa Leo, George Reeves, Elijah Wood, Jared Harris, and Terry Crews. After him are Olga Chekhova, Felicity Huffman, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, Pilar Bardem, Louis Gossett Jr., and Jean Delannoy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 82. Before him are Yevgeni Preobrazhensky, Amédée Ozenfant, Henry H. Arnold, Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, Edwin Fischer, and Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr.. After him are Manuel Ponce, Stefania Wilczyńska, Ernst Robert Curtius, Princess Patricia of Connaught, Olga Rozanova, and Rudolf Schmidt. Among people deceased in 1973, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 80. Before him are Frank Jack Fletcher, Robert Smithson, Hans Globke, Merian C. Cooper, Bruno Maderna, and Clas Thunberg. After him are Soong Ai-ling, Jack Hawkins, Marc Allégret, Jarno Saarinen, Bobby Darin, and Nikos Zachariadis.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 547 out of 6,048. Before him are Toshio Suzuki (1948), Shinran (1173), Hirokazu Kanazawa (1931), Nobuhito, Prince Takamatsu (1905), Masanobu Izumi (1944), and Masao Ono (1923). After him are Gunichi Mikawa (1888), Shigeo Sugimoto (1926), Hiranuma Kiichirō (1867), Tokugawa Ienobu (1662), Monkey Punch (1937), and Muryeong of Baekje (462).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Sessue Hayakawa ranks 18. Before him are Ken Takakura (1931), Hibari Misora (1937), Machiko Kyō (1924), Akiko Wakabayashi (1941), Kinuyo Tanaka (1909), and Mako (1933). After him are Momoko Kōchi (1932), Victoria Principal (1950), Shintaro Katsu (1931), Mie Hama (1943), Tetsuko Kuroyanagi (1933), and Sho Kosugi (1948).

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