ACTOR

Steve Reeves

1926 - 2000

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Stephen Lester Reeves (January 21, 1926 – May 1, 2000) was an American professional bodybuilder and actor. He was famous in the mid-1950s as a movie star in Italian-made sword-and-sandal films, playing the protagonist as muscular characters such as Hercules, Goliath, and Sandokan. At the peak of his career, he was the highest-paid actor in Europe. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Steve Reeves has received more than 2,266,097 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia. Steve Reeves is the 623rd most popular actor (down from 489th in 2019), the 1,146th most popular biography from United States (down from 910th in 2019) and the 306th most popular American Actor.

Steve Reeves is most famous for his role as Hercules in the movies Hercules and Hercules Unchained.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.3M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.71

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.56

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Steve Reeves ranks 623 out of 13,578. Before him are Hardy Krüger, Bernard Hill, James Cagney, Cornel Wilde, Pierre Brice, and Shelley Winters. After him are Gena Rowlands, Jeremy Renner, Vincent Price, Tom Berenger, Ed Lauter, and Richard Barthelmess.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Steve Reeves ranks 69. Before him are Hilary Putnam, Jaber Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, Margot Frank, Abdoulaye Wade, Richard Matheson, and John Fowles. After him are Noah Gordon, César Pelli, Konstantinos Stephanopoulos, Gyula Grosics, Cayetana Fitz-James Stuart, 18th Duchess of Alba, and Kim Jae-gyu. Among people deceased in 2000, Steve Reeves ranks 32. Before him are Princess María de las Mercedes of Bourbon-Two Sicilies, Jason Robards, Ofra Haza, Bettino Craxi, Gino Bartali, and Anatoly Sobchak. After him are Rudolf Kirchschläger, John Gielgud, Richard Farnsworth, Lila Kedrova, Arkan, and Takashi Kano.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Steve Reeves ranks 1,146 out of 20,380. Before him are George H. Hitchings (1905), Jean Webster (1876), Paul D. Boyer (1918), Cornelius Vanderbilt (1794), Edith Wharton (1862), and Shelley Winters (1920). After him are Gena Rowlands (1930), Jeremy Renner (1971), George Carlin (1937), Vincent Price (1911), Stan Getz (1927), and Harrison Schmitt (1935).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Steve Reeves ranks 306. Before him are James Gandolfini (1961), Jim Belushi (1954), Stanley Tucci (1960), Richard S. Castellano (1933), James Cagney (1899), and Shelley Winters (1920). After him are Gena Rowlands (1930), Jeremy Renner (1971), Vincent Price (1911), Tom Berenger (1949), Ed Lauter (1938), and Richard Barthelmess (1895).

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Television and Movie Roles

Hercules
Ercole (Hercules)
In this melange of characters and events from separate mythological stories, Hercules, demigod and superman, arrives in the ancient Greek kingdom of Iolcus to tutor Iphitus, son of king Pelias; immediately on arrival, he falls in love with the king's delectable, briefly clad daughter Iole. Before he can win her, he must succeed in a series of quests, in the course of which he teams up with Jason, true heir of Iolcus, whom he accompanies on the famous voyage of the Argonauts.
Feb 20th 19585.1 / 10
The Last Days of Pompeii
Glaucus Leto
Glaucus, a demobilized centurion returns home to Pompeii to find his father murdered by a gang of black-hooded Christian robbers that terrorizes the city and he decides to investigate the matter while the nearby volcano threatens to erupt.
Nov 12th 19596.1 / 10
Hercules Unchained
Ercole (Hercules)
En route to Thebes for an important diplomatic mission, Hercules drinks from a magic spring and loses his memory. He spends most of the movie in the pleasure gardens of Queen Omphale of Lydia. While young Ulysses tries to help him regain his memory, political tensions escalate in Thebes, and Hercules' new wife Iole finds herself in mortal danger.
Feb 14th 19595 / 10