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Maureen O'Sullivan

1911 - 1998

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Maureen Paula O'Sullivan (May 17, 1911 – June 23, 1998) was an Irish actress who played Jane in the Tarzan series of films during the era of Johnny Weissmuller. She starred in dozens of feature films across a span of more than half a century and performed with such stars as Laurence Olivier, Greta Garbo, Fredric March, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Lionel Barrymore, the Marx Brothers and Woody Allen. In 2020, she was listed at number eight on The Irish Times list of Ireland's greatest film actors. O'Sullivan was born in Boyle, County Roscommon, Ireland. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Maureen O'Sullivan is the 1,471st most popular actor (up from 1,476th in 2019), the 95th most popular biography from Ireland (down from 83rd in 2019) and the 14th most popular Irish Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Maureen O'Sullivan ranks 1,471 out of 13,578. Before her are Shih Kien, Jessica Alba, Wallace Shawn, Ángela Molina, Babita, and Barbara Eden. After her are Fabio Testi, Donald Glover, Paul Ritter, Henry Cavill, Tanya Roberts, and Hervé Villechaize.

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Among people born in 1911, Maureen O'Sullivan ranks 100. Before her are Prince Carl Bernadotte, Viktor Barna, Paul Goodman, Jehan Alain, Zenkō Suzuki, and Elizabeth Bishop. After her are Teddy Kollek, Maria Reiter, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Klára Dán von Neumann, Andor Lilienthal, and André Leroi-Gourhan. Among people deceased in 1998, Maureen O'Sullivan ranks 85. Before her are Ferenc Deák, Sōsuke Uno, László Szabó, Frithjof Schuon, Haxhi Lleshi, and Shotaro Ishinomori. After her are Benjamin Spock, Remo Giazotto, Aymoré Moreira, Muriel Humphrey Brown, César Baldaccini, and Momoko Kōchi.

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In Ireland

Among people born in Ireland, Maureen O'Sullivan ranks 95 out of 549. Before her are Antoine Thomson d'Abbadie (1810), Edward Mulhare (1923), Oliver Goldsmith (1728), Dymphna (700), Edward Carson (1854), and Ruaidrí Ua Conchobair (1116). After her are James Barry (1795), Nicholas Aylward Vigors (1785), John Banville (1945), Sir William Johnson, 1st Baronet (1715), Christy Brown (1932), and Andrew Graham (1815).

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Among ACTORS In Ireland

Among actors born in Ireland, Maureen O'Sullivan ranks 14. Before her are Brendan Gleeson (1955), Maureen O'Hara (1920), Colin Farrell (1976), Brenda Fricker (1945), Caitriona Balfe (1979), and Edward Mulhare (1923). After her are Fionnula Flanagan (1941), David Kelly (1929), Fiona Shaw (1958), Aidan Gillen (1968), Colm Meaney (1953), and Dan O'Herlihy (1919).

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