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Margaret Hamilton

1902 - 1985

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Margaret Brainard Hamilton (December 9, 1902 – May 16, 1985) was an American actress, vaudevillian and educator, whose fifty-year career in entertainment spanned theater, film, radio and television. She often played villains and was best known for her portrayal of the Wicked Witch of the West and her Kansas counterpart Almira Gulch in the 1939 Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film The Wizard of Oz. A former schoolteacher, she worked as a character actress in films for seven years before she was offered the role that defined her public image. In later years, Hamilton appeared in films and made frequent cameo appearances on television sitcoms and commercials. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Margaret Hamilton is the 290th most popular actor (up from 3,053rd in 2019), the 639th most popular biography from United States (up from 4,634th in 2019) and the 156th most popular American Actor.

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Among actors, Margaret Hamilton ranks 290 out of 13,578. Before her are Mia Farrow, Ernest Borgnine, Paul Walker, Peter Fonda, Hugh Grant, and Kurt Russell. After her are James Fox, Stephen Lang, Stellan Skarsgård, Goldie Hawn, David Carradine, and Virna Lisi.

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Among people born in 1902, Margaret Hamilton ranks 25. Before her are Arne Tiselius, Talcott Parsons, André Michel Lwoff, Josemaría Escrivá, Alva Myrdal, and William Wyler. After her are Nâzım Hikmet, Andrew Irvine, Marcel Breuer, Meyer Lansky, Mikhail Suslov, and Henry Cabot Lodge Jr.. Among people deceased in 1985, Margaret Hamilton ranks 19. Before her are Jean Dubuffet, László Bíró, Simone Signoret, Philip Larkin, Rock Hudson, and Simon Kuznets. After her are Dian Fossey, Paul Flory, Lon Nol, Charlotte, Grand Duchess of Luxembourg, Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., and Kim Yong-sik.

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Among people born in United States, Margaret Hamilton ranks 639 out of 20,380. Before her are Robert A. Dahl (1915), Peter Fonda (1940), Glen Campbell (1936), Douglas Engelbart (1925), Donald Trump Jr. (1977), and Kurt Russell (1951). After her are Hiram Maxim (1840), Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947), Stephen Lang (1952), Martin Lewis Perl (1927), Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. (1915), and Dave Bautista (1969).

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Among actors born in United States, Margaret Hamilton ranks 156. Before her are Jerry Lewis (1926), Mia Farrow (1945), Ernest Borgnine (1917), Paul Walker (1973), Peter Fonda (1940), and Kurt Russell (1951). After her are Stephen Lang (1952), Goldie Hawn (1945), David Carradine (1936), Harold Lloyd (1893), James Avery (1945), and Dennis Hopper (1936).

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