1934 - 2020
Anthony Wilford Brimley (September 27, 1934 – August 1, 2020) was an American actor. After serving in the U.S. Marine Corps and working odd jobs in the 1950s, Brimley started working as an extra and stuntman in Western films in the late 1960s. He became an established character actor in the 1970s and 1980s in films such as The China Syndrome (1979), The Thing (1982), Tender Mercies (1983), The Natural (1984), and Cocoon (1985). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wilford Brimley has received more than 6,642,183 page views. His biography is available in 71 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 69 in 2019). Wilford Brimley is the 1,877th most popular actor (down from 1,180th in 2019), the 3,128th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,168th in 2019) and the 901st most popular American Actor.
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Among actors, Wilford Brimley ranks 1,877 out of 9,996. Before him are Mark Forest, Elisabeth Bergner, Steve Cropper, Mabel Normand, Aleksandr Demyanenko, and Édith Scob. After him are Mie Hama, Sebastian Koch, Jonathan Frakes, Brent Spiner, Jackie Stallone, and Irrfan Khan.
1933 - 2022
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 1,871
1897 - 1986
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 1,872
1941 - Present
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 1,873
1892 - 1930
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 1,874
1937 - 1999
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 1,875
1937 - 2019
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 1,876
1934 - 2020
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 1,877
1943 - Present
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 1,878
1962 - Present
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 1,879
1952 - Present
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 1,880
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 1,881
1921 - 2020
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 1,882
1967 - 2020
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 1,883
Among people born in 1934, Wilford Brimley ranks 158. Before him are Waldo Machado, Alexandra Ripley, Dashrath Manjhi, Pierre Clastres, Nino Ferrer, and Francisco de Sá Carneiro. After him are Eileen Atkins, Lucien Muller, Del Shannon, Anatoly Solonitsyn, Frans Brüggen, and Yasutaka Tsutsui. Among people deceased in 2020, Wilford Brimley ranks 169. Before him are Philippe Nahon, Astrid Kirchherr, Zizi Jeanmaire, Adolfo Nicolás, Winston Groom, and Joaquín Peiró. After him are Jackie Stallone, Irrfan Khan, Claude Bolling, Hans Tilkowski, Gigi Proietti, and Mohsen Fakhrizadeh.
1934 - 2019
HPI: 54.01
Rank: 152
1934 - 2004
HPI: 54.00
Rank: 153
1934 - 2007
HPI: 53.95
Rank: 154
1934 - 1977
HPI: 53.87
Rank: 155
1934 - 1998
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 156
1934 - 1980
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 157
1934 - 2020
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 158
1934 - Present
HPI: 53.55
Rank: 159
1934 - Present
HPI: 53.39
Rank: 160
1934 - 1990
HPI: 53.36
Rank: 161
1934 - 1982
HPI: 53.33
Rank: 162
1934 - 2014
HPI: 53.30
Rank: 163
1934 - Present
HPI: 53.23
Rank: 164
1938 - 2020
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 163
1938 - 2020
HPI: 53.81
Rank: 164
1924 - 2020
HPI: 53.79
Rank: 165
1936 - 2020
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 166
1943 - 2020
HPI: 53.68
Rank: 167
1936 - 2020
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 168
1934 - 2020
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 169
1921 - 2020
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 170
1967 - 2020
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 171
1930 - 2020
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 172
1935 - 2020
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 173
1940 - 2020
HPI: 53.50
Rank: 174
1958 - 2020
HPI: 53.47
Rank: 175
Among people born in United States, Wilford Brimley ranks 3,128 out of 18,182. Before him are Mark Forest (1933), Steve Cropper (1941), Douglas Tompkins (1943), Jesse Jackson (1941), Mabel Normand (1892), and James Curtis Hepburn (1815). After him are Ralph Bunche (1904), Dick Dale (1937), Robert Gates (1943), Howlin' Wolf (1910), Jonathan Frakes (1952), and Brent Spiner (1949).
1933 - 2022
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 3,122
1941 - Present
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 3,123
1943 - 2015
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 3,124
1941 - Present
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 3,125
1892 - 1930
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 3,126
1815 - 1911
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 3,127
1934 - 2020
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 3,128
1904 - 1971
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 3,129
1937 - 2019
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 3,130
1943 - Present
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 3,131
1910 - 1976
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 3,132
1952 - Present
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 3,133
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 3,134
Among actors born in United States, Wilford Brimley ranks 901. Before him are Harris Yulin (1937), Lauren Holly (1963), Lauren German (1978), Mark Forest (1933), Steve Cropper (1941), and Mabel Normand (1892). After him are Jonathan Frakes (1952), Brent Spiner (1949), Jackie Stallone (1921), Susan Sullivan (1942), Art Metrano (1936), and Annie Potts (1952).
1937 - Present
HPI: 53.69
Rank: 895
1963 - Present
HPI: 53.66
Rank: 896
1978 - Present
HPI: 53.63
Rank: 897
1933 - 2022
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 898
1941 - Present
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 899
1892 - 1930
HPI: 53.62
Rank: 900
1934 - 2020
HPI: 53.61
Rank: 901
1952 - Present
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 902
1949 - Present
HPI: 53.60
Rank: 903
1921 - 2020
HPI: 53.59
Rank: 904
1942 - Present
HPI: 53.57
Rank: 905
1936 - 2021
HPI: 53.57
Rank: 906
1952 - Present
HPI: 53.56
Rank: 907