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Victor Jory

1902 - 1982

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Victor Jory (November 23, 1902 – February 12, 1982) was a Canadian-American actor of stage, film, and television. He initially played romantic leads, but later was mostly cast in villainous or sinister roles, such as Oberon in A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) and carpetbagger Jonas Wilkerson in Gone with the Wind (1939). From 1959 to 1961, he had a lead role in the 78-episode television police drama Manhunt. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Victor Jory has received more than 702,438 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Victor Jory is the 4,444th most popular actor (down from 4,201st in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from Canada (down from 339th in 2019) and the 100th most popular Canadian Actor.

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  • 700k

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  • 55.23

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.27

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Victor Jory ranks 4,444 out of 13,578. Before her are Yoshiko Kuga, Richard Todd, Michael Gwisdek, Betty Gilpin, Jim Sturgess, and John Slattery. After her are Eva Ionesco, Fred Williamson, May McAvoy, Mark Lindsay Chapman, Cyril Raffaelli, and Brian Doyle-Murray.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Victor Jory ranks 230. Before her are Carlos Spadaro, Sigizmund Levanevsky, Toivo Loukola, André Tassin, Learco Guerra, and Princess Sophie of Luxembourg. After her are Stanley G. Weinbaum, Josef von Báky, Dulce María Loynaz, Théodore Monod, Giuseppe Lepori, and Georges Lacombe. Among people deceased in 1982, Victor Jory ranks 191. Before her are BP Koirala, Victor Buono, Dominique Dunne, Virginia Hall, Marie Braun, and Hércules de Miranda. After her are Josef Bradl, Hitoshi Sasaki, Jean Batten, Carmelo Robledo, Beb Bakhuys, and Pedro Solé.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Victor Jory ranks 344 out of 1,622. Before her are George London (1920), Mary Pierce (1975), Samuel Cunard (1787), George Chuvalo (1937), William Kahan (1933), and Len Cariou (1939). After her are Arthur Meighen (1874), Brian Orser (1961), Richard Manuel (1943), Jean-Marc Vallée (1963), Harry Saltzman (1915), and Donal Logue (1966).

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Among ACTORS In Canada

Among actors born in Canada, Victor Jory ranks 100. Before her are Pom Klementieff (1986), Seth Rogen (1982), Susan Clark (1943), Carole Laure (1948), Michael Sarrazin (1940), and Len Cariou (1939). After her are Donal Logue (1966), A. J. Cook (1978), Heather Menzies (1949), Gordon Thomson (1945), Chief Dan George (1899), and Xavier Dolan (1989).

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