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Yuen Siu-tien

1912 - 1979

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Yuen Siu-tien (Chinese: 袁小田) (27 November 1912 – 8 January 1979) (also known as Yuan Xiaotian, Simon Yuen, Sam Seed or "Ol' Dirty") was a Hong Kong actor and martial artist. In the late 1970s, Yuen is perhaps best known as Beggar So (a.k.a. Sam Seed) in three films: Drunken Master, Story of Drunken Master and his final film Dance of the Drunk Mantis. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuen Siu-tien has received more than 614,431 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 17 in 2019). Yuen Siu-tien is the 1,308th most popular actor (down from 924th in 2019), the 526th most popular biography from China (down from 376th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Chinese Actor.

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  • 610k

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  • 62.90

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.51

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Yuen Siu-tien ranks 1,308 out of 13,578. Before him are Jack Hawkins, Simon Baker, Zbigniew Cybulski, Patrick Bauchau, Guy Pearce, and Steven Berkoff. After him are Felicity Huffman, Ida Kamińska, Alyssa Milano, Dragan Nikolić, Olga Chekhova, and Marg Helgenberger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Yuen Siu-tien ranks 102. Before him are Woody Guthrie, Sohn Kee-chung, Philibert Tsiranana, Samuel Fuller, Jean Améry, and Igor Markevitch. After him are Fritz Fischer, Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, Edmond Jabès, Hasan Salama, Perry Como, and Charles Addams. Among people deceased in 1979, Yuen Siu-tien ranks 68. Before him are Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Yukio Tsuda, Jacques Mesrine, Louis Durey, Gustavo Díaz Ordaz, and Aleksei N. Leontiev. After him are Friedrich Ebert Jr., Jean-Marie Villot, Stein Rokkan, Gio Ponti, Carlo Abarth, and Yvonne de Gaulle.

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In China

Among people born in China, Yuen Siu-tien ranks 526 out of 1,610. Before him are Wu Peifu (1874), Qin Liangyu (1574), Dong Yuan (932), Lin Sen (1868), Li Cunxu (885), and Zheng Zhilong (1604). After him are Shangguan Wan'er (664), Emperor Shizong of Jin (1123), Sheng Shicai (1895), Bian Que (-401), Xu Shen (58), and Wu Daozi (680).

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Among ACTORS In China

Among actors born in China, Yuen Siu-tien ranks 11. Before him are Gong Li (1965), Yoshiko Yamaguchi (1920), Hou Hsiao-hsien (1947), Yuen Biao (1957), Run Run Shaw (1907), and Shih Kien (1913). After him are Ti Lung (1946), Zhou Xuan (1920), Joan Chen (1961), Na Moon-hee (1941), Zhang Ziyi (1979), and Ruan Lingyu (1910).

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