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Ken Howard

1944 - 2016

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Kenneth Joseph Howard Jr. (March 28, 1944 – March 23, 2016) was an American actor. He was known for his roles as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 (1972) and as high school basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player Ken Reeves in the television show The White Shadow (1978–1981). Howard won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play in 1970 for his performance in Child's Play, and won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie for his work in Grey Gardens (2009). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Howard is the 5,120th most popular actor (up from 5,577th in 2019), the 8,009th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,147th in 2019) and the 2,339th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Ken Howard ranks 5,120 out of 13,578. Before him are Jim Sturgess, Jason Sudeikis, Lee Bo-young, Genelia D'Souza, Kai, and Liz Smith. After him are Natalia Tena, Terele Pávez, Oleg Menshikov, Alexander Kalyagin, Paris Jackson, and Zoë Lund.

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Among people born in 1944, Ken Howard ranks 530. Before him are Kay Ivey, Leonard Slatkin, Roger Dean, El Anatsui, Zhanna Bichevskaya, and Matthew Cowles. After him are Barbara Thompson, Claes-Ingvar Lagerkvist, Buchi Emecheta, Gilbert Adair, Erhard Keller, and Frank Rühle. Among people deceased in 2016, Ken Howard ranks 385. Before him are Alfred G. Knudson, Larry Drake, Gotlib, Janet Reno, Erol Keskin, and Liz Smith. After him are Marni Nixon, Natalya Krachkovskaya, Amelia Bence, Adolf Born, Angus Scrimm, and Vera Henriksen.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Ken Howard ranks 8,011 out of 20,380. Before him are John Flynn (1932), James P. Johnson (1894), Lewis Binford (1932), Stoya (1986), James Jamerson (1936), and Anthony Kennedy (1936). After him are David Bryan (1962), Charlaine Harris (1951), Jimmy Kimmel (1967), Stanley Norman Cohen (1935), Christy Turlington (1969), and Paris Jackson (1998).

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Among actors born in United States, Ken Howard ranks 2,340. Before him are Cammie King (1934), Andrea Elson (1969), Doug Hutchison (1960), Tovah Feldshuh (1952), Kristine Sutherland (1955), and Jason Sudeikis (1975). After him are Paris Jackson (1998), Zoë Lund (1962), Leslie Mann (1972), Robert Earl Jones (1910), Lexington Steele (1969), and Rory Calhoun (1922).

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