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Ken Shimura

1950 - 2020

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Yasunori Shimura (志村 康徳, Shimura Yasunori; February 20, 1950 – March 29, 2020), known professionally as Ken Shimura (志村 けん, Shimura Ken), was a Japanese comedian. He was born in Higashimurayama, Tokyo. He started his career as an assistant to the comedy band The Drifters, led by Chōsuke Ikariya. In 1974, He joined the group, replacing Chū Arai. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ken Shimura is the 37th most popular comedian (down from 33rd in 2019), the 927th most popular biography from Japan (down from 905th in 2019) and the most popular Japanese Comedian.

Ken Shimura is most famous for his work on the manga series "Urusei Yatsura" which ran from 1978 to 1987.

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Among COMEDIANS

Among comedians, Ken Shimura ranks 37 out of 98. Before him are Melissa McCarthy, Steven Wright, Mary Tyler Moore, Zach Galifianakis, Ronald Golias, and Jackie Gleason. After him are Lenny Bruce, Bernie Mac, Tim Meadows, Albert Brooks, Jonathan Winters, and Eddie Izzard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1950, Ken Shimura ranks 216. Before him are Josipa Lisac, Luigi Delneri, Geraldine James, Pasteur Bizimungu, Waldemar Cierpinski, and Carlos Aguiar Retes. After him are Alec Jeffreys, Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield, Richard Bandler, Bernie Taupin, David Cassidy, and Daria Nicolodi. Among people deceased in 2020, Ken Shimura ranks 244. Before him are James Flynn, Bobby Morrow, Éva Székely, Silvio Marzolini, Tarun Gogoi, and Jack Welch. After him are Sadiq al-Mahdi, Park Won-soon, David Stern, Nur Hassan Hussein, Stuart Whitman, and Italo De Zan.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Ken Shimura ranks 927 out of 6,245. Before him are Asakura Yoshikage (1533), Nagakura Shinpachi (1839), Takuboku Ishikawa (1886), Jirō Minami (1874), Hiroshi Sugimoto (1948), and Katsuyuki Kawachi (1955). After him are Inō Tadataka (1745), Nobuo Uematsu (1959), Kaneto Shindo (1912), Takehiko Inoue (1967), Osachi Hamaguchi (1870), and Yamamoto Kansuke (1493).

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Among COMEDIANS In Japan

Among comedians born in Japan, Ken Shimura ranks 1. 

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