ACTOR

Tetsurō Tamba

1922 - 2006

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Tetsurō Tamba (Japanese: 丹波 哲郎, Hepburn: Tanba Tetsurō, born Shozaburo Tanba; Japanese: 丹波 正三郎, July 17, 1922 – September 24, 2006) was a Japanese actor with a career spanning five decades. He appeared in nearly 300 film and television productions, both in leading and supporting roles, and was the winner of two Japan Academy Film Prizes. At the height of his career, he was one of Japan's most esteemed and prolific leading men, and worked with many significant directors including Kinji Fukasaku, Shōhei Imamura, Masaki Kobayashi, Masahiro Shinoda and Takashi Miike. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tetsurō Tamba has received more than 279,956 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Tetsurō Tamba is the 2,512th most popular actor (down from 2,324th in 2019), the 902nd most popular biography from Japan (down from 831st in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Japanese Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Tetsurō Tamba ranks 2,512 out of 13,578Before him are Jacki Weaver, Carola Neher, David Boreanaz, Tom Ewell, Mark Rylance, and Ha Ji-won. After him are Jean Peters, Mack Swain, Kirin Kiki, Hume Cronyn, Gloria Holden, and Frank Marshall.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Tetsurō Tamba ranks 201Before him are Gilberto Agustoni, Vsevolod Bobrov, Stanley Schachter, George McGovern, Władysław Bartoszewski, and Albert Lamorisse. After him are Dorothy Dandridge, Luiz Bonfá, Käbi Laretei, Gene Amdahl, Roy Salvadori, and Jack Klugman. Among people deceased in 2006, Tetsurō Tamba ranks 164Before him are Mariam Aslamazian, Chris Penn, June Allyson, Bruno Kirby, Anthony Franciosa, and Georgios Rallis. After him are Johnny Servoz-Gavin, Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Maureen Stapleton, Maynard Ferguson, Gennadiy Aygi, and Desmond Dekker.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Tetsurō Tamba ranks 902 out of 6,245Before him are Keisuke Kinoshita (1912), Sadako Ogata (1927), Fumiko Hayashi (1903), Keiko Abe (1937), Kusumoto Ine (1827), and Masaki Yokotani (1952). After him are Kirin Kiki (1943), Aritatsu Ogi (1942), Ken Shimura (1950), Ichiro Suzuki (1973), Hideo Shinojima (1910), and Konoe Sakihisa (1536).

Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Tetsurō Tamba ranks 32Before him are Meiko Kaji (1947), Sho Kosugi (1948), Chishū Ryū (1904), Yūsaku Matsuda (1949), Akihiro Miwa (1935), and Teinosuke Kinugasa (1896). After him are Kirin Kiki (1943), Sayuri Yoshinaga (1945), Haruo Nakajima (1929), Takuya Kimura (1972), Miyoshi Umeki (1929), and Tsuru Aoki (1892).