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Sid Caesar

1922 - 2014

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Isaac Sidney Caesar (September 8, 1922 – February 12, 2014) was an American actor, comedian and writer. With a career spanning 60 years, he was best known for two pioneering 1950s live television series: Your Show of Shows (1950–1954), which was a 90-minute weekly show watched by 60 million people, and its successor, Caesar's Hour (1954–1957), both of which influenced later generations of comedians. Your Show of Shows and its cast received seven Emmy nominations between the years 1953 and 1954 and tallied two wins. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sid Caesar has received more than 2,662,946 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia. Sid Caesar is the 4,601st most popular actor (down from 3,560th in 2019), the 6,871st most popular biography from United States (down from 5,622nd in 2019) and the 2,137th most popular American Actor.

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  • 2.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.13

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.74

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.75

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sid Caesar ranks 4,601 out of 9,996Before him are Mia May, Indra Devi, Bérénice Marlohe, Christopher Jones, Michael Lerner, and Lisa Eilbacher. After him are Vinod Khanna, L. Scott Caldwell, Richard Simmons, John Russell, Dick Van Patten, and Murat Yıldırım.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Sid Caesar ranks 291Before him are Aldo Ballarin, Vesna Parun, Ali Akbar Khan, China Zorrilla, Božo Broketa, and Frédéric Rossif. After him are Olga Guillot, Gustav Freij, Ilmar Kullam, Stoyanka Mutafova, Margaret Leighton, and Alain de Changy. Among people deceased in 2014, Sid Caesar ranks 319Before him are China Zorrilla, Azlan Shah of Perak, Jacques Barrot, Fiorenzo Angelini, Anatoly Kuznetsov, and Christopher Jones. After him are Alakbar Mammadov, Eugene Dynkin, Mary F. Lyon, Urs Widmer, Els Borst, and Jean Vallée.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Sid Caesar ranks 6,871 out of 18,182Before him are Arthur Barnard (1929), Justin Gatlin (1982), Christopher Jones (1941), Michael Lerner (1941), John Carmack (1970), and Janis Ian (1951). After him are Shawn Crahan (1969), Anna Katharine Green (1846), Edwin Foster Coddington (1870), James J. Jeffries (1875), L. Scott Caldwell (1950), and Richard Simmons (1948).

Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Sid Caesar ranks 2,137Before him are John Schneider (1960), Gil Birmingham (1953), Mildred Davis (1901), Ashley Benson (1989), Christopher Jones (1941), and Michael Lerner (1941). After him are L. Scott Caldwell (1950), Richard Simmons (1948), John Russell (1921), Dick Van Patten (1928), Vivica A. Fox (1964), and Louis Wolheim (1880).

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