Reading Time: < 1 minuteContinuing our quest for the most famous actress/actor (see, e.g., here), in this post I explore the fame of four iconic actors: Harvey Keitel Jet Li Telly Savalas Chuck Norris. And the most famous is… The use of Ngram shows that Chuck Norris, the protagonist of Read more
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a series of earlier posts, I explored the fame of iconic actresses and actors from Hollywood. The vast majority of them have fame levels smaller than 20 famons. Elvis Presley sits at the top, with 53 famons. He is closely followed by Marilyn Monroe, John Wayne and Frank Sinatra. Here I explore the Read more
Reading Time: < 1 minute This post further explores the fame of actors and actress by presenting the estimates of fame for some of the most iconic actors of the 1970s, 1980’s and 1990s, namely Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty, Robert Duvall, James Caan and Dustin Hoffman. Read more
Reading Time: 3 minutesFame of actors and actresses In previous posts I used the Ngram tool to identify the fame level of several actors and actresses. The unit of fame is the famon (= 1/1 000 000 relative % Ngram frequency). Marylin Monroe and John Wayne are still at the top Previous uses Read more