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Eiji Okada

1920 - 1995

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Eiji Okada (岡田 英次, Okada Eiji; 13 June 1920 – 14 September 1995) was a Japanese film actor from Chōshi, Chiba. Okada served in the Imperial Japanese Army during World War II and was a miner and traveling salesman before becoming an actor. Internationally, his best-remembered roles include Lui ("him" in French) in the 1959 film Hiroshima mon amour, directed by Alain Resnais. In this film, Eiji Okada had to learn the screenplay phonetically because he did not speak French. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Eiji Okada is the 3,965th most popular actor (down from 3,378th in 2019), the 1,200th most popular biography from Japan (down from 1,064th in 2019) and the 58th most popular Japanese Actor.

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Among actors, Eiji Okada ranks 3,965 out of 13,578. Before him are Frances Sternhagen, Yūjirō Ishihara, Lawrence Tierney, Paula Patton, Mia May, and Takehito Koyasu. After him are Wes Bentley, Martina Gedeck, Al Ernest Garcia, Julien Guiomar, Álvaro Morte, and Pooja Hegde.

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Among people born in 1920, Eiji Okada ranks 276. Before him are Janet Jagan, Ross Martin, Maxi Herber, Kenneth E. Iverson, Roy Jenkins, and Eddie Slovik. After him are Godfrey Binaisa, André Simon, Clark Terry, Rosemary Sutcliff, Richard Quine, and Anton Malatinský. Among people deceased in 1995, Eiji Okada ranks 198. Before him are József Bencsics, Francesco Camusso, Emmanuel Roblès, Alexander Knox, Margaret Woodbridge, and Margita Figuli. After him are Shura Cherkassky, Georges Candilis, Bryan Johnson, Laurindo Almeida, Elizabeth Roboz Einstein, and Hermínio de Brito.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Eiji Okada ranks 1,200 out of 6,245. Before him are Kishin Shinoyama (1940), Takuma Sato (1977), Yukitaka Omi (1952), Yoko Tawada (1960), Yūjirō Ishihara (1934), and Takehito Koyasu (1967). After him are Keiko Saito (1965), Isao Kimura (1923), Masahiro Ota (1970), Dai Sato (1971), Yuji Sugano (1961), and Yoshiki (1965).

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Among ACTORS In Japan

Among actors born in Japan, Eiji Okada ranks 58. Before him are Toshio Furukawa (1946), Tsuru Aoki (1892), Megumi Hayashibara (1967), Isuzu Yamada (1917), Yūjirō Ishihara (1934), and Takehito Koyasu (1967). After him are Isao Kimura (1923), Akira Emoto (1948), Ichirō Nagai (1931), Hiroshi Abe (1964), Masayuki Mori (1911), and Miyoshi Umeki (1929).

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