1953 - Today
Tōru Furuya (古谷 徹, Furuya Tōru, born July 31, 1953, in Yokohama, Kanagawa Prefecture) is a Japanese actor, voice actor and narrator. As a child, he was a member of Gekidan Himawari, a children's acting troupe. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tōru Furuya has received more than 348,704 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Tōru Furuya is the 3,406th most popular actor (up from 3,471st in 2019), the 1,036th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,011th in 2019) and the 50th most popular Japanese Actor.
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Among actors, Tōru Furuya ranks 3,406 out of 9,996. Before him are Ariadna Gil, André Wilms, Mari Törőcsik, Murray Hamilton, Victor Lanoux, and Harriet Walter. After him are Daniel Duval, Alan Cumming, Lou Costello, Niels Arestrup, Jim Varney, and Josephine Chaplin.
1969 - Present
HPI: 48.88
Rank: 3,400
1947 - 2022
HPI: 48.88
Rank: 3,401
1935 - 2021
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 3,402
1923 - 1986
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 3,403
1936 - 2017
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 3,404
1950 - Present
HPI: 48.87
Rank: 3,405
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 3,406
1944 - 2013
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 3,407
1965 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 3,408
1906 - 1959
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 3,409
1949 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 3,410
1949 - 2000
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 3,411
1949 - 2023
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 3,412
Among people born in 1953, Tōru Furuya ranks 204. Before him are Patti Scialfa, Satoru Nakajima, Toyohito Mochizuki, James Read, David Deutsch, and Gérard Krawczyk. After him are Władysław Kozakiewicz, Johnny Clegg, Russell Mulcahy, Riek Machar, Åge Hareide, and Barry Sonnenfeld.
1953 - Present
HPI: 49.29
Rank: 198
1953 - Present
HPI: 49.13
Rank: 199
1953 - Present
HPI: 49.00
Rank: 200
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 201
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.92
Rank: 202
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.91
Rank: 203
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 204
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 205
1953 - 2019
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 206
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.83
Rank: 207
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.78
Rank: 208
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.76
Rank: 209
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 210
Among people born in Japan, Tōru Furuya ranks 1,036 out of 6,048. Before him are Kinue Hitomi (1907), Yukio Kasaya (1943), Gotō Shōjirō (1838), Yoshiki Tanaka (1952), Shinobu Ishihara (1879), and Keizo Imai (1950). After him are Ryozo Suzuki (1939), Tadao Onishi (1943), Sumio Iijima (1939), Masayuki Mori (1911), Yasushi Akimoto (1958), and Aritatsu Ogi (1942).
1907 - 1931
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 1,030
1943 - Present
HPI: 48.94
Rank: 1,031
1838 - 1897
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 1,032
1952 - Present
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 1,033
1879 - 1963
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 1,034
1950 - Present
HPI: 48.86
Rank: 1,035
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 1,036
1939 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 1,037
1943 - 2006
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 1,038
1939 - Present
HPI: 48.82
Rank: 1,039
1911 - 1973
HPI: 48.79
Rank: 1,040
1958 - Present
HPI: 48.78
Rank: 1,041
1942 - Present
HPI: 48.77
Rank: 1,042
Among actors born in Japan, Tōru Furuya ranks 50. Before him are Eiji Okada (1920), Akio Ōtsuka (1959), Isao Kimura (1923), Ichirō Nagai (1931), Kōichi Yamadera (1961), and Noriko Ohara (1935). After him are Masayuki Mori (1911), Minoru Chiaki (1917), Ayako Wakao (1933), Toshio Furukawa (1946), Tamlyn Tomita (1966), and Akira Ishida (1967).
1920 - 1995
HPI: 49.47
Rank: 44
1959 - Present
HPI: 49.44
Rank: 45
1923 - 1981
HPI: 49.34
Rank: 46
1931 - 2014
HPI: 49.32
Rank: 47
1961 - Present
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 48
1935 - Present
HPI: 49.03
Rank: 49
1953 - Present
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 50
1911 - 1973
HPI: 48.79
Rank: 51
1917 - 1999
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 52
1933 - Present
HPI: 48.71
Rank: 53
1946 - Present
HPI: 48.65
Rank: 54
1966 - Present
HPI: 48.64
Rank: 55
1967 - Present
HPI: 48.57
Rank: 56