ACTOR

Tommy Rettig

1941 - 1996

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Thomas Noel Rettig (December 10, 1941 – February 15, 1996) was an American child actor, computer software engineer, and author. He portrayed the character "Jeff Miller" in the first three seasons of CBS's Lassie television series, from 1954 to 1957, later seen in syndicated re-runs with the title Jeff's Collie. He also played the young orphan adopted by British star David Niven in Niven's film titled "No Identity," for the TV anthology series, Four Star Playhouse (Season 1, episode 13). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tommy Rettig has received more than 1,249,330 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Tommy Rettig is the 3,817th most popular actor (up from 4,045th in 2019), the 5,688th most popular biography from United States (up from 6,116th in 2019) and the 1,722nd most popular American Actor.

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  • 16

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  • 2.71

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  • 2.72

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Tommy Rettig ranks 3,817 out of 13,578. Before him are Ed O'Ross, Klara Rumyanova, André Wilms, Tita Merello, Dominique Lavanant, and Christiane Hörbiger. After him are Isao Kimura, Reiner Schöne, Jeremy Northam, Sandra Bernhard, Lupita Ferrer, and Madeleine Carroll.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Tommy Rettig ranks 356. Before him are Derek Bell, Jigjidiin Mönkhbat, Ewa Demarczyk, Diogo Freitas do Amaral, Alberto Mario González, and Inger Aufles. After him are Abel Matutes, Luis Durnwalder, Vadim Glowna, Guido Reybrouck, Maurice Piat, and Peter Ducke. Among people deceased in 1996, Tommy Rettig ranks 193. Before him are Lydia Chukovskaya, Camilla Horn, Johan Kraag, Julio César Méndez Montenegro, Ferdinand Leitner, and Harry Andersson. After him are José Lázaro Robles, Edvin Wide, Hillevi Rombin, N. T. Rama Rao, Roger Lapébie, and Michel Pablo.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Tommy Rettig ranks 5,688 out of 20,380. Before him are Stanley G. Payne (1934), Edna Ferber (1885), Frankie Laine (1913), Adele Goldberg (1945), Eliza McCardle Johnson (1810), and John C. Lilly (1915). After him are Tony Joe White (1943), Mike Stern (1953), James B. Donovan (1916), Eric Shinseki (1942), Sandra Bernhard (1955), and Michael Spinks (1956).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Tommy Rettig ranks 1,722. Before him are Kurt Fuller (1953), JoBeth Williams (1948), Gavin MacLeod (1931), Harry Morgan (1915), Carl Lumbly (1951), and Ed O'Ross (1949). After him are Sandra Bernhard (1955), Elizabeth Mitchell (1970), David White (1916), Harry Carey (1878), Sabrina Carpenter (1999), and Wil Wheaton (1972).

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Television and Movie Roles

River of No Return
Mark Calder
An itinerant farmer and his young son help a heart-of-gold saloon singer search for her estranged husband.
Apr 30o 19546.652 / 10
The Last Wagon
Billy
When a handful of settlers survive an Apache attack on their wagon train they must put their lives into the hands of Comanche Todd, a white man who has lived with the Comanches most of his life and is wanted for the murder of three men.
Sep 21o 19566.5 / 10
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T.
Bartholomew Collins
Young Bart Collins lives with his widowed mother Heloise. The major blight on Bart's existence is the hated piano lessons he is forced to endure under the tutelage of the autocratic Dr. Terwilliker. Bart feels that his mother has fallen under Terwilliker's sinister influence, and gripes to visiting plumber August Zabladowski, without much result. While grimly hammering away at his lessons, Bart dozes off and enters a fantastical musical dream.
Jun 19o 19536.1 / 10