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Shelley Winters

1920 - 2006

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Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American film actress whose career spanned seven decades. She won Academy Awards for The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) and A Patch of Blue (1965), and received nominations for A Place in the Sun (1951) and The Poseidon Adventure (1972). She also appeared in A Double Life (1947), The Night of the Hunter (1955), Lolita (1962), Alfie (1966), Next Stop, Greenwich Village (1976), and Pete's Dragon (1977). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shelley Winters has received more than 5,095,886 page views. Her biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Shelley Winters is the 622nd most popular actor (down from 510th in 2019), the 1,145th most popular biography from United States (down from 958th in 2019) and the 305th most popular American Actor.

Shelley Winters was most famous for her roles in the films A Place in the Sun, The Night of the Hunter, Lolita, and The Poseidon Adventure.

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  • 5.1M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 55

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.52

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 5.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Shelley Winters by language

Over the past year Shelley Winters has had the most page views in the with 675,487 views, followed by Italian (77,522), and Spanish (44,371). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Thai (198.14%), Arabic (163.84%), and Simple English (140.80%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Shelley Winters ranks 622 out of 13,578. Before her are Richard S. Castellano, Hardy Krüger, Bernard Hill, James Cagney, Cornel Wilde, and Pierre Brice. After her are Steve Reeves, Gena Rowlands, Jeremy Renner, Vincent Price, Tom Berenger, and Ed Lauter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Shelley Winters ranks 51. Before her are George Porter, Prem Tinsulanonda, Baruj Benacerraf, Chiara Lubich, E. Donnall Thomas, and Lawrence Klein. After her are Walter Nowotny, George Armitage Miller, P. D. James, Dave Brubeck, Ovadia Yosef, and Maureen O'Hara. Among people deceased in 2006, Shelley Winters ranks 51. Before her are Nam June Paik, Claude Jade, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Steve Irwin, Gordon Parks, and William Styron. After her are Gillo Pontecorvo, Maktoum bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Romano Mussolini, Mariska Veres, Karel Appel, and Ta Mok.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shelley Winters ranks 1,145 out of 20,380. Before her are Charles Cooley (1864), George H. Hitchings (1905), Jean Webster (1876), Paul D. Boyer (1918), Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794), and Edith Wharton (1862). After her are Steve Reeves (1926), Gena Rowlands (1930), Jeremy Renner (1971), George Carlin (1937), Vincent Price (1911), and Stan Getz (1927).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Shelley Winters ranks 305. Before her are Shelley Duvall (1949), James Gandolfini (1961), Jim Belushi (1954), Stanley Tucci (1960), Richard S. Castellano (1933), and James Cagney (1899). After her are Steve Reeves (1926), Gena Rowlands (1930), Jeremy Renner (1971), Vincent Price (1911), Tom Berenger (1949), and Ed Lauter (1938).

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Television and Movie Roles

The Night of the Hunter
Willa Harper
In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.
Aug 26o 19557.891 / 10
The Tenant
The Concierge
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
May 26o 19767.652 / 10
Lolita
Charlotte Haze
Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulgarity of American culture. When he comes to stay at the boarding house run by Charlotte Haze, he soon becomes obsessed with Lolita, the woman's teenaged daughter.
Jun 13o 19627.4 / 10