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Ben Lyon

1901 - 1979

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Ben Lyon (February 6, 1901 – March 22, 1979) was an American film actor and a studio executive at 20th Century-Fox who later acted in British radio, films and TV. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Ben Lyon is the 6,200th most popular actor (down from 5,868th in 2024), the 9,562nd most popular biography from United States (down from 8,606th in 2019) and the 2,848th most popular American Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Ben Lyon ranks 6,200 out of 13,578. Before him are Hana Laszlo, Özge Gürel, Roman Coppola, Graciela Borges, Veronica Hamel, and Preity Zinta. After him are Gwen Verdon, Huseyn Arablinski, Irina Petrescu, Carlo Giuffrè, Stephen Dorff, and Alice Calhoun.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Ben Lyon ranks 313. Before him are C. L. R. James, Frank Belknap Long, Ondino Viera, Jimmy Gallagher, Clementina de Jesus, and Boris Chirkov. After him are Enrique Jardiel Poncela, Francisco Gamborena, Leopoldo Conti, Francis Chichester, Helen Ferguson, and Shirley Mason. Among people deceased in 1979, Ben Lyon ranks 241. Before him are Hans Liesche, Heinz Pollay, Beatrice Hicks, John Norton, Jan Pijnenburg, and Hans Scherfig. After him are Elizabeth Ryan, Wálter Guimarães, Vasily Solovyov-Sedoi, Barnes Wallis, Bart McGhee, and Karel Senecký.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ben Lyon ranks 9,566 out of 20,380. Before him are Daniel Pipes (1949), Christie Brinkley (1954), Sidney Verba (1932), Philander C. Knox (1853), George Inness (1825), Elizabeth J. Feinler (1931), Simon Guggenheim (1867), and Veronica Hamel (1943). After him are Michael Anthony (1954), Harlow Curtice (1893), Jerry Weintraub (1937), and Annie Easley (1933).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Ben Lyon ranks 2,849. Before him are Liz Torres (1947), Alan Oppenheimer (1930), Evan Rachel Wood (1987), Kenneth Marshall (1950), Christie Brinkley (1954), and Veronica Hamel (1943). After him are Gwen Verdon (1925), Stephen Dorff (1973), Alice Calhoun (1900), Marge Champion (1919), Melora Hardin (1967), and Mariette Hartley (1940).

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