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Anna Neagle

1904 - 1986

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Dame Florence Marjorie Wilcox (née Robertson; 20 October 1904 – 3 June 1986), known professionally as Anna Neagle, was an English stage and film actress, singer, and dancer. She was a successful box-office draw in British cinema for 20 years and was voted the most popular star in Britain in 1949. She was known for providing glamour and sophistication to war-torn London audiences with her lightweight musicals, comedies, and historical dramas. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anna Neagle has received more than 1,061,640 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Anna Neagle is the 8,459th most popular actor (down from 7,466th in 2019), the 5,814th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 5,177th in 2019) and the 942nd most popular British Actor.

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  • 20

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  • 1.47

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  • 3.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Anna Neagle ranks 8,459 out of 13,578. Before her are Masanobu Ando, Gen Hoshino, Michelle Keegan, Tom Sturridge, Wu Chun, and Josephine Langford. After her are Lee So-yeon, Tom Conway, Zuleikha Robinson, Momoko Kikuchi, Anna Samokhina, and Missy Peregrym.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Anna Neagle ranks 350. Before her are Charles R. Drew, Virginia Brown Faire, Sally Rand, Milburn Stone, Patrick Kavanagh, and Selwyn Lloyd. After her are Tom Conway, Mike Bookie, Libby Holman, MacKinlay Kantor, Jennison Heaton, and Gwen Lee. Among people deceased in 1986, Anna Neagle ranks 292. Before her are Howard Da Silva, Rudy Vallée, Robert Helpmann, Dinny Pails, Hank Greenberg, and Dorothy Ashby. After her are Bessie Head, Richard van der Riet Woolley, Romeo Rivers, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Paul Frees, and Jerry Paris.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anna Neagle ranks 5,814 out of 8,785. Before her are Lee Ryan (1983), Mary Warnock, Baroness Warnock (1924), Michelle Keegan (1987), Mike Gascoyne (1963), Tom Sturridge (1985), and Ian Stewart (1929). After her are Cameron Mackintosh (1946), Zuleikha Robinson (1977), Edmund Andros (1637), Jeff Noon (1957), Dorothy E. Smith (1926), and Joe Cole (1988).

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Among ACTORS In United Kingdom

Among actors born in United Kingdom, Anna Neagle ranks 942. Before her are Juno Temple (1989), Emily Beecham (1984), Daniel Kaluuya (1989), David O'Hara (1965), Michelle Keegan (1987), and Tom Sturridge (1985). After her are Zuleikha Robinson (1977), Joe Cole (1988), Emma D'Arcy (1992), John Bradley (1988), Paul Rhys (1963), and Matilda Ziegler (1964).

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Television and Movie Roles

Odette
Odette
The film is based on the true story of Special Operations Executive French-born agent Odette Sansom, who was captured by the Germans in 1943, condemned to death and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp to be executed. However, against all odds she survived the war and testified against the prison guards at the Hamburg Ravensbrück Trials. She was awarded the George Cross in 1946; the first woman ever to receive the award, and the only woman who has been awarded it while still alive. (From Wikipedia, licensed under CC-BY-SA)
Oct 2o 19506.1 / 10
Yellow Canary
Sally Maitland
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Dec 13o 19435.1 / 10
Nurse Edith Cavell
Nurse Edith Cavell
British nurse Edith Cavell is stationed at a hospital in Brussels during World War I. When the son of a former patient escapes from a German prisoner-of-war camp, she helps him flee to Holland. Outraged at the number of soldiers detained in the camps, Edith, along with a group of sympathizers, devises a plan to help the prisoners escape. As the group works to free the soldiers, Edith must keep her activities secret from the Germans
Aug 31o 19396.4 / 10