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Doris Roberts

1925 - 2016

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Doris May Roberts (née Green; November 4, 1925 – April 17, 2016) was an American actress and comedian whose career spanned seven decades of television and film. She received five Emmy Awards and a Screen Actors Guild award during her acting career, which began in 1948. Roberts studied acting at The Neighborhood Playhouse School of the Theatre in New York City and started in films in 1961. She had several prominent film roles, including playing opposite Shirley Stoler in The Honeymoon Killers (1970), Elliott Gould in Little Murders (1971), Steven Keats in Hester Street (1975), Billy Crystal in Rabbit Test (1978), Robert Carradine in Number One with a Bullet (1987), Cady McClain in Simple Justice (1989), among many others. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 38 in 2024). Doris Roberts is the 3,057th most popular actor (down from 2,965th in 2024), the 5,175th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,546th in 2019) and the 1,454th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Doris Roberts ranks 3,057 out of 13,578. Before her are Sam Jaffe, Francesca Bertini, Fay Bainter, Andreas Katsulas, Jan Werich, and Petr Shelokhonov. After her are Embeth Davidtz, Joely Richardson, Solange Knowles, Siri von Essen, Diahann Carroll, and Claire Danes.

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Among people born in 1925, Doris Roberts ranks 241. Before her are Ahmad Shamlou, Claude Pinoteau, Arne Åhman, Bakhtiyar Vahabzadeh, Wojciech Has, and Jonathan Winters. After her are Charles Mackerras, John Neville, Ernst Jandl, Roy Haynes, Rubem Fonseca, and Mohammed Mzali. Among people deceased in 2016, Doris Roberts ranks 242. Before her are Óscar Humberto Mejía Víctores, Slobodan Santrač, Zoltán Kocsis, Jan Němec, Jamshid Amouzegar, and Jiří Tichý. After her are Harald Grønningen, Marc Riboud, Pierre Étaix, Brigitte Hamann, Ursula Franklin, and Banharn Silpa-archa.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Doris Roberts ranks 5,175 out of 20,380. Before her are Fay Bainter (1893), Andreas Katsulas (1946), Reuben Fine (1914), Don Schollander (1946), Bob Gale (1951), and Gene Amdahl (1922). After her are Embeth Davidtz (1965), Stephen P. Synnott (1946), James Russell Lowell (1819), Sidney M. Gutierrez (1951), Solange Knowles (1986), and Ray Dolby (1933).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Doris Roberts ranks 1,454. Before her are Cheryl Ladd (1951), William Conrad (1920), Eileen Ryan (1927), Sam Jaffe (1891), Fay Bainter (1893), and Andreas Katsulas (1946). After her are Embeth Davidtz (1965), Solange Knowles (1986), Diahann Carroll (1935), Claire Danes (1979), Emily Deschanel (1976), and Rhonda Fleming (1923).

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