ACTOR

Shelley Winters

1920 - 2006

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Shelley Winters (born Shirley Schrift; August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress whose career spanned seven decades. She appeared in numerous films, and 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 3,058,425 page views. Her biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 48 in 2019). Shelley Winters is the 549th most popular actor (up from 594th in 2019), the 1,024th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,207th in 2019) and the 279th 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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  • 53

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.53

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  • 5.02

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Shelley Winters ranks 549 out of 10,030. Before her are Cantinflas, Jonathan Banks, Meg Ryan, André Antoine, Rex Harrison, and Steve Buscemi. After her are Udo Kier, James Cagney, Shah Rukh Khan, Linda Christian, Ken Watanabe, and Raf Vallone.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Shelley Winters ranks 51. Before her are Frank Sheeran, Ștefan Kovács, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Michèle Morgan, Timothy Leary, and Prem Tinsulanonda. After her are Kaysone Phomvihane, Isaac Stern, John Harsanyi, Tom of Finland, P. D. James, and Sergei Bondarchuk. Among people deceased in 2006, Shelley Winters ranks 43. Before her are Melvin Schwartz, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Bülent Ecevit, Alida Valli, Anna Politkovskaya, and Alexander Litvinenko. After her are Ta Mok, Shohei Imamura, Romano Mussolini, Karel Appel, Glenn Ford, and Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Shelley Winters ranks 1,024 out of 15,968. Before her are Meg Ryan (1961), William Kemmler (1860), Norman Foster Ramsey Jr. (1915), Ben E. King (1938), G. Stanley Hall (1846), and Steve Buscemi (1957). After her are Suzi Quatro (1950), James Horner (1953), Dick Fosbury (1947), James Cagney (1899), Chris Isaak (1956), and John Foster Dulles (1888).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Shelley Winters ranks 279. Before her are William Hurt (1950), Carl Weathers (1948), Scott Wilson (1942), Jonathan Banks (1947), Meg Ryan (1961), and Steve Buscemi (1957). After her are James Cagney (1899), Elliott Gould (1938), Buck Henry (1930), Anjelica Huston (1951), Richard Barthelmess (1895), and Scarlett Johansson (1984).

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