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Annie Cordy

1928 - 2020

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Léonie Juliana, Baroness Cooreman (16 June 1928 – 4 September 2020), also known by her stage name Annie Cordy, was a Belgian actress and singer. She appeared in more than 50 films from 1954 and staged many memorable appearances at Bruno Coquatrix' famous Paris Olympia. Her version of "La Ballade de Davy Crockett" was number 1 in the charts for five weeks in France in August 1956. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Annie Cordy has received more than 269,524 page views. Her biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Annie Cordy is the 2,474th most popular actor (down from 2,446th in 2019), the 431st most popular biography from Belgium (down from 399th in 2019) and the 6th most popular Belgian Actor.

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  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.75

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  • 4.22

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Annie Cordy ranks 2,474 out of 13,578Before her are Jacques Villeret, Sandra Hüller, Paul Reiser, Maria Tănase, John Marley, and Herman van Veen. After her are John Garfield, Leslie Jones, Muse Watson, Úrsula Corberó, Kathleen Freeman, and Reginald VelJohnson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1928, Annie Cordy ranks 252Before her are Steingrímur Hermannsson, Nicolas Roeg, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Alan Sillitoe, Nils Christie, and Alexander Gomelsky. After her are Anthony Franciosa, Sohrab Sepehri, Edgar Schein, Pal Benko, Azlan Shah of Perak, and Charles Gray. Among people deceased in 2020, Annie Cordy ranks 226Before her are Robert Shavlakadze, Marian Jaworski, Ernesto Brambilla, Alex Olmedo, Idir, and Robert Fisk. After her are Hans-Jochen Vogel, Ken Robinson, S. P. Balasubrahmanyam, Gisèle Halimi, Ken Shimura, and Rubem Fonseca.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Annie Cordy ranks 431 out of 1,190Before her are Sigiswald Kuijken (1944), Joseph Decaisne (1807), Daniel Van Buyten (1978), Jean Servais (1910), Alfred Stevens (1823), and Kevin De Bruyne (1991). After her are Philippe de Monte (1521), Philippe van Lansberge (1561), Countess Catharina Belgica of Nassau (1578), Jacques-Nicolas Lemmens (1823), Dirk Frimout (1941), and Raymond Braine (1907).

Among ACTORS In Belgium

Among actors born in Belgium, Annie Cordy ranks 6Before her are Audrey Hepburn (1929), Jean-Claude Van Damme (1960), Patrick Bauchau (1938), Johnny Galecki (1975), and Jean Servais (1910). After her are Benoît Poelvoorde (1964), Johan Leysen (1950), Yolande Moreau (1953), Jan Decleir (1946), Cécile de France (1975), and Virginie Efira (1977).

Television and Movie Roles

Disco
Madame Graindorge
Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his son refuses to send him their son for the holidays unless he can offer him a real vacation, not just going to bars of the French port city of Le Havre. Penniless, the only way he can see his son is by winning a dance contest organized by his friend Jackson, with the prize of a vacation to Australia for two.
Revenge of a Blonde
Jany
An upstanding provincial reporter becomes presenter of the TV news on a commercial network owned by an influential Italian businessman. He soon outgrows his family and neglects them terribly. Investigating a fascist terrorist cell, the reporter's integrity is called into doubt by the police. Soon after, his jealous wife unleashes her wrath live in TV. It goes from bad to worse until his wife's anger brings him back to his senses and back home.
Les Souvenirs
La grand-mère de Romain
Twenty-three years old Romain would like to be a writer, but, for the moment, he's night watchman in a hotel. His sixty-two years old father is retired and seems to not give a damn about anything. He shares an apartment with a twenty-four-year-old guy whose sole purpose in life is to seduce a woman, no matter who, and no matter the cost. His eighty-five years old grandmother is living in an old people's home, and she wonders what on earth she is doing with stuck with all these old people. One day, Romain's father turns up in a fluster. His grandmother has disappeared. In fact, she kind of escaped. Romain sets out to find her, somewhere in his memories.