ACTOR

Stephen Tobolowsky

1951 - Today

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Stephen Harold Tobolowsky (born May 30, 1951) is an American character actor. He is known for film roles such as insurance agent Ned Ryerson in Groundhog Day and amnesiac Sammy Jankis in Memento, as well as such television characters as Commissioner Hugo Jarry in Deadwood, Bob Bishop in Heroes, Sandy Ryerson in Glee, Stu Beggs in Californication and White Famous, "Action" Jack Barker in Silicon Valley, Dr. Leslie Berkowitz in One Day at a Time, Principal Earl Ball in The Goldbergs, and Dr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stephen Tobolowsky has received more than 3,525,235 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Stephen Tobolowsky is the 3,014th most popular actor (down from 2,937th in 2019), the 4,593rd most popular biography from United States (up from 4,614th in 2019) and the 1,365th most popular American Actor.

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  • 3.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 51.35

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Stephen Tobolowsky ranks 3,014 out of 13,578. Before him are Tom Mix, Kiyoshi Atsumi, Timothy Olyphant, Madeline Kahn, Clifton James, and Josiane Balasko. After him are Murray Hamilton, Ben Miller, John McCook, Kirill Lavrov, David Belle, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1951, Stephen Tobolowsky ranks 228. Before him are David Vunagi, Tatyana Kazankina, Gordon Liu, Natsuo Kirino, Corey Yuen, and Oleg Gazmanov. After him are Bernie Marsden, Alexei Uchitel, Muhammed Faris, Iván Fischer, Dave Benton, and Ramón Puerta.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stephen Tobolowsky ranks 4,593 out of 20,380. Before him are Tom Mix (1880), Carmine Appice (1946), Robert W. Chambers (1865), Timothy Olyphant (1968), Madeline Kahn (1942), and Clifton James (1920). After him are Murray Hamilton (1923), Grace Coolidge (1879), Emile Ardolino (1943), Armand Hammer (1898), John McCook (1944), and Emma Lazarus (1849).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Stephen Tobolowsky ranks 1,365. Before him are Michael V. Gazzo (1923), Aidan Quinn (1959), Tom Mix (1880), Timothy Olyphant (1968), Madeline Kahn (1942), and Clifton James (1920). After him are Murray Hamilton (1923), John McCook (1944), Julia Louis-Dreyfus (1961), Keith David (1956), Olive Thomas (1894), and Bob Crane (1928).

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Television and Movie Roles

Memento
Sammy
Leonard Shelby is tracking down the man who raped and murdered his wife. The difficulty of locating his wife's killer, however, is compounded by the fact that he suffers from a rare, untreatable form of short-term memory loss. Although he can recall details of life before his accident, Leonard cannot remember what happened fifteen minutes ago, where he's going, or why.
Oct 11o 20008.18 / 10
Groundhog Day
Ned Ryerson
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Feb 11o 19937.6 / 10
Garfield
Happy Chapman
Garfield, the fat, lazy, lasagna lover, has everything a cat could want. But when Jon, in an effort to impress the Liz - the vet and an old high-school crush - adopts a dog named Odie and brings him home, Garfield gets the one thing he doesn't want. Competition.
Jun 10o 20045.7 / 10