ACTOR

Sydney Chaplin

1885 - 1965

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Sydney John Chaplin (né Hill; 16 March 1885 – 16 April 1965) was an English actor. Chaplin was the elder half-brother of actor and filmmaker Charlie Chaplin and in later life, served as his business manager. Through their mother Hannah, they were older half-brothers to the younger Wheeler Dryden, who grew up separately with his father in England and was not told about his half-brothers until 1915. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Sydney Chaplin has received more than 721,236 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Sydney Chaplin is the 1,022nd most popular actor (up from 1,329th in 2019), the 1,114th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,423rd in 2019) and the 145th most popular British Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 720k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.69

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.42

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.48

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Sydney Chaplin ranks 1,022 out of 13,578. Before him are Ian Somerhalder, Sterling Hayden, Mary McDonnell, Djimon Hounsou, Lena Olin, and Chadwick Boseman. After him are Clara Bow, Armen Dzhigarkhanyan, Hugh Griffith, Elizabeth Montgomery, Youn Yuh-jung, and Libuše Šafránková.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Sydney Chaplin ranks 63. Before him are Seishirō Itagaki, G. W. Pabst, Gunnar Asplund, Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Jules Pascin, and Władysław Raczkiewicz. After him are René Grousset, Alois Hudal, Sisavang Vong, Stanisław Ignacy Witkiewicz, Khải Định, and Egon Kisch. Among people deceased in 1965, Sydney Chaplin ranks 36. Before him are Fan Noli, Adolf Schärf, Frederick Fleet, David O. Selznick, Mehdi Ben Barka, and Lauri Törni. After him are Clara Bow, Hans Knappertsbusch, Angelica Balabanoff, Muhammad Najib ar-Ruba'i, Aksel Sandemose, and Carl Oberg.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Sydney Chaplin ranks 1,114 out of 8,785. Before him are Winifred Wagner (1897), John Russell, 1st Earl Russell (1792), Harriet Taylor Mill (1807), James Meade (1907), Colin Dexter (1930), and Frederic Leighton (1830). After him are Colin McRae (1968), Hugh Griffith (1912), Henry Royce (1863), Joseph Wright of Derby (1734), Charles Spearman (1863), and Samuel Bellamy (1689).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Sydney Chaplin ranks 145. Before him are Sacha Baron Cohen (1971), Dirk Bogarde (1921), Honor Blackman (1925), Helen McCrory (1968), Patrick Macnee (1922), and Brenda Blethyn (1946). After him are Hugh Griffith (1912), Taron Egerton (1989), Idris Elba (1972), Kiefer Sutherland (1966), Keira Knightley (1985), and Daniel Radcliffe (1989).

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Television and Movie Roles

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