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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 571,705 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Yuen Siu-tien is the 925th most popular actor (up from 1,066th in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from China (up from 433rd in 2019) and the 7th most popular Chinese Actor.

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  • 570k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.21

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Yuen Siu-tien ranks 925 out of 9,996. Before him are Randolph Scott, Anne Parillaud, Frank Oz, Yvette Guilbert, Chris Evans, and Michael Dudikoff. After him are Gal Gadot, Thomas Haden Church, María Félix, Richard Jenkins, Adrien Brody, and Jerry Stiller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Yuen Siu-tien ranks 75. Before him are Julia Child, Ivan Yakubovsky, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Abbé Pierre, Marina Raskova, and Rashid bin Saeed Al Maktoum. After him are Barbara W. Tuchman, Michel Debré, A. E. van Vogt, Lady Bird Johnson, Woody Guthrie, and Chaïm Perelman. Among people deceased in 1979, Yuen Siu-tien ranks 55. Before him are Teruo Nakamura, Konstantin Simonov, Dhyan Chand, Dimitri Tiomkin, Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, and Charles Mingus. After him are Alfredo Ottaviani, Rudi Dutschke, Charles W. Morris, Ali Hassan Salameh, Nicos Poulantzas, and Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry.

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In China

Among people born in China, Yuen Siu-tien ranks 377 out of 1,392. Before him are 11th Dalai Lama (1838), Jayaatu Khan Tugh Temür (1304), Li Dazhao (1889), Liang Qichao (1873), Emperor Jingzong of Tang (809), and Wei Zhongxian (1568). After him are Kong Rong (153), Pan Geng (-1500), Jin Youzhi (1918), Gu Kaizhi (345), Deng Ai (197), and Guo Xi (1020).

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Among ACTORS In China

Among actors born in China, Yuen Siu-tien ranks 7. Before him are Toshiro Mifune (1920), Jet Li (1963), Bolo Yeung (1946), Donnie Yen (1963), Gong Li (1965), and Yoshiko Yamaguchi (1920). After him are Run Run Shaw (1907), Shih Kien (1913), Hou Hsiao-hsien (1947), Zhou Xuan (1920), Joan Chen (1961), and Ruan Lingyu (1910).

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