Actor Analysis Joel Ross 2/3/2020 This page analyzes data about movie actors! Trending Actors

Who are the top trending_count trending people on TMDB (week of 2020-01-29)?

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Leonardo DiCaprio

Brad Pitt

Jason Statham

Jet Li

Henry Cavill

Nicolas Cage

Bruce Willis

Scarlett Johansson

Favorite Actor Though they may not be included in that list for some reason, my favorite actor is Cary Grant (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3485845/nm0000026). They are known for:

North by Northwest Notorious To Catch a Thief

Their biography:

“Once told by an interviewer,”Everybody would like to be Cary Grant“, Grant is said to have replied,”So would I."

Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in Bristol would have been an ordinary lower-middle-class childhood, except for one extraordinary event. At age nine, he came home from school one day and was told his mother had gone off to a seaside resort. The real truth, however, was that she had been placed in a mental institution, where she would remain for years, and he was never told about it (he wouldn’t see his mother again until he was in his late 20s). He left school at fourteen, lying about his age and forging his father’s signature on a letter to join Bob Pender’s troupe of knockabout comedians. He learned pantomime as well as acrobatics as he toured with the Pender troupe in the English provinces, picked up a Cockney accent in the music halls in London, and then in July 1920 was one of the eight Pender boys selected to go to the US. Their show on Broadway, “Good Times”, ran for 456 performances, giving Grant time to acclimatize. He would stay in America. In 1933, Mae West chose Grant for She Done Him Wrong because she saw his combination of virility, sexuality and the aura and bearing of a gentleman.

By the 1950s, he had invented a man-of-the-world persona and a style - “high comedy with polished words”. In To Catch a Thief (1955), he and Grace Kelly were allowed to improvise some of the dialogue. They knew what the director, Alfred Hitchcock, wanted to do with a scene, they rehearsed it, put in some clever double entendres that got past the censors, and then the scene was filmed. His biggest box-office success was another Hitchcock 1950s film, North by Northwest (1959), made with Eva Marie Saint since Kelly was by that time Princess of Monaco.

Grant eventually became alienated by the new realism in the film industry. He was young enough to begin the new career of fatherhood when he stopped making movies at age 62."

Actor Popularity Cary Grant has been in the films listed below. Based on the TMBD voting data, the popularity of his films generally increased over time (correlation: 0.0482629), with an average vote of 6.241573.

release_date title character vote_average

1932-04-08 This Is the Night Stephen Mathewson 6.0

1932-05-13 Sinners in the Sun Ridgeway 5.7

1932-06-10 Singapore Sue First Sailor (uncredited) 4.5

1932-06-10 Merrily We Go to Hell Charlie Baxter 7.1

1932-08-12 Devil and the Deep Lt. Jaeckel 6.0

1932-09-09 Blonde Venus Nick Townsend 7.2

1932-10-28 Hot Saturday Romer Sheffield 6.6

1932-12-30 Madame Butterfly Lieutenant Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton 5.7

1933-02-09 She Done Him Wrong Captain Cummings 5.8

1933-02-17 The Woman Accused Jeffrey Baxter 6.0

1933-05-06 The Eagle and the Hawk Henry Crocker 6.1

1933-06-23 Gambling Ship Ace Corbin 4.7

1933-10-06 I’m No Angel Jack Clayton 7.1

1933-12-22 Alice in Wonderland Mock Turtle 6.0

1934-05-18 Born to Be Bad Malcolm Trevor 6.4

1934-05-18 Thirty Day Princess Porter Madison III 7.2

1934-07-13 Kiss and Make-Up Dr. Maurice Lamar 6.2

1934-08-10 Ladies Should Listen Julian De Lussac 6.3

1935-01-04 Enter Madame Gerald Fitzgerald 7.0

1935-02-01 Wings in the Dark Ken Gordon 6.3

1935-10-11 The Last Outpost Michael Andrews 8.0

1935-11-20 Pirate Party on Catalina Isle Cary Grant (uncredited) 7.3

1935-12-25 Sylvia Scarlett Jimmy Monkley 6.5

1936-04-03 Big Brown Eyes Det. Sgt. Danny Barr 6.5

1936-07-20 Suzy Andre 7.0

1936-07-28 The Amazing Quest of Ernest Bliss Ernest Bliss 7.2

1936-09-11 Screen Snapshots (Series 16, No. 1) 0.0

1936-10-09 Wedding Present Charlie Mason 7.0

1937-02-12 When You’re in Love Jimmy Hudson 7.0

1937-07-16 Topper George Kerby 7.0

1937-07-30 The Toast of New York Nick Boyd 6.0

1937-10-20 The Awful Truth Jerry Warriner 7.3

1938-02-18 Bringing Up Baby David Huxley 7.6

1938-06-15 Holiday Johnny Case 7.3

1938-12-29 Topper Takes a Trip George Kerby (archive footage) (uncredited) 6.6

1939-01-26 Gunga Din Cutter 6.9 release_date title character vote_average

1939-05-15 Only Angels Have Wings Geoff Carter 7.4

1939-08-18 In Name Only Alec Walker 7.1

1939-09-22 Screen Snapshots Series 19, No. 1 0.0

1940-01-01 The Miracle of Sound 6.0

1940-01-18 His Girl Friday Walter Burns 7.5

1940-05-17 My Favorite Wife Nick Arden 7.3

1940-09-19 The Howards of Virginia Matt Howard 6.3

1940-09-23 A Tribute to the Will Rogers Memorial 0.0 Hospital

1940-12-05 The Philadelphia Story C.K. Dexter Haven 7.8

1941-04-24 Penny Serenade Roger Adams 6.8

1941-11-14 Suspicion John D. ‘Johnnie’ Aysgarth 7.3

1942-01-01 Breakdowns of 1942 Himself (uncredited) 0.0

1942-08-20 The Talk of the Town Leopold Dilg - Joseph 7.3

1942-11-27 Once Upon a Honeymoon Pat O’Toole 6.4

1943-07-01 Mr. Lucky Joe Adams 7.0

1943-12-31 Destination Tokyo Captain Cassidy 7.2

1944-04-11 The Shining Future Self 0.0

1944-05-18 Road to Victory Himself 5.0

1944-06-29 Once Upon a Time Jerry Flynn 6.7

1944-09-01 Arsenic and Old Lace Mortimer Brewster 7.6

1944-10-17 None But the Lonely Heart Ernie Mott 6.2

1945-10-09 George White’s Scandals Cary Grant (archive footage) (uncredited) 5.0

1946-05-13 Without Reservations Cary Grant (uncredited) 6.3

1946-07-02 Night and Day Cole Porter 5.8

1946-08-21 Notorious T.R. Devlin 7.9

1947-01-01 Blow-Ups of 1947 Himself 7.0

1947-07-24 The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer Richard Nugent 7.2

1947-12-25 The Bishop’s Wife Dudley 7.1

1948-03-25 Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House Jim Blandings 7.1

1948-12-25 Every Girl Should Be Married Dr. Madison W. Brown 7.1

1949-08-19 I Was a Male War Bride Capt. Henri Rochard 7.1

1950-07-07 Crisis Dr. Eugene Norland Ferguson 7.0

1951-08-29 People Will Talk Dr. Noah Praetorius 7.0

1952-01-10 Room for One More George “Poppy” Rose 6.1

1952-09-03 Monkey Business Barnaby Fulton 6.7

1953-06-19 Dream Wife Clemson Reade 6.1

1955-08-03 To Catch a Thief John Robie 7.4

1957-07-10 The Pride and the Passion Anthony 6.0

1957-07-11 An Affair to Remember Nickie Ferrante 7.4

1957-12-10 Kiss Them for Me Cmdr. Andrew " Andy" Crewson 5.4

1958-07-16 Indiscreet Philip Adams 6.6

1958-11-19 Houseboat Tom Winters 6.4

1959-07-08 North by Northwest Roger O. Thornhill 8.0

1959-12-05 Operation Petticoat Lt. Cmdr. Matt T. Sherman 7.1

1960-12-23 The Grass Is Greener Victor Rhyall 6.4

1962-06-14 That Touch of Mink Philip Shayne 6.7 release_date title character vote_average

1963-07-01 Hollywood Without Make-Up 6.3

1963-12-05 Charade Peter Joshua / Alexander Dyle / Adam Canfield / Bryan 7.7 Cruikshank

1964-09-02 The Big Parade of Comedy Cary Grant 0.0

1964-12-10 Father Goose Walter Christopher Eckland 7.0

1965-03-03 The Love Goddesses 6.0

1965-12-31 Hollywood My Home Town 8.0

1966-01-01 Walk Don’t Run Sir William Rutland 6.6