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Richard Barthelmess

1895 - 1963

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Richard Semler Barthelmess (May 9, 1895 – August 17, 1963) was an American film actor, principally of the Hollywood silent era. He starred opposite Lillian Gish in D. W. Griffith's Broken Blossoms (1919) and Way Down East (1920) and was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in 1927. The following year, he was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor for two films: The Patent Leather Kid and The Noose. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richard Barthelmess is the 472nd most popular actor (up from 629th in 2019), the 1,013th most popular biography from United States (up from 1,157th in 2019) and the 247th most popular American Actor.

Richard Barthelmess was an American actor, director, and producer. He is most famous for starring in the silent film The Sea Wolf (1924) and the sound film The Dawn Patrol (1930).

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Among actors, Richard Barthelmess ranks 472 out of 13,578. Before him are Mel Ferrer, Jane Seymour, Vincent Cassel, Pat Morita, Jean Harlow, and Jane Russell. After him are Joan Collins, Bill Bixby, Magda Schneider, Lillian Gish, Chow Yun-fat, and Karl Malden.

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Among people born in 1895, Richard Barthelmess ranks 50. Before him are László Moholy-Nagy, Wilhelm Burgdorf, Vasily Blokhin, Oskar Dirlewanger, Stanley Rous, and Jürgen Stroop. After him are Babe Ruth, Dorothea Lange, Augusto César Sandino, Albert Göring, Dickinson W. Richards, and Richard Walther Darré. Among people deceased in 1963, Richard Barthelmess ranks 31. Before him are Abd al-Karim Qasim, J. D. Tippit, Herbert Spencer Gasser, Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, Jacques Hadamard, and Richard Baer. After him are Rajendra Prasad, Theodore von Kármán, Kurt Zeitzler, Karl Bühler, Oleg Penkovsky, and Princess Alexandra of Hanover.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Richard Barthelmess ranks 1,013 out of 20,380. Before him are Pat Morita (1932), Jean Harlow (1911), Gary Gygax (1938), Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (1887), Joseph Barbera (1911), and Jane Russell (1921). After him are George Eastman (1854), Babe Ruth (1895), Bill Bixby (1934), William Hanna (1910), Dorothea Lange (1895), and Lillian Gish (1893).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Richard Barthelmess ranks 247. Before him are William H. Macy (1950), Frances Farmer (1913), Mel Ferrer (1917), Pat Morita (1932), Jean Harlow (1911), and Jane Russell (1921). After him are Bill Bixby (1934), Lillian Gish (1893), Karl Malden (1912), Harold Ramis (1944), Walter Matthau (1920), and Powers Boothe (1948).

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