ACTOR

Elga Andersen

1935 - 1994

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Elga Andersen (née Helga Hymen or Hymmen) (2 February 1935 – 7 December 1994) was a German actress and singer. She starred in more than one dozen French films in the 1950s and 1960s and also debuted as a recording artist in the 1950s. She performed the songs "Treu sein" and "Sündenlied" in the 1961 film The Guns of Navarone, and co-starred in the 1971 Steve McQueen film Le Mans. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Elga Andersen has received more than 178,569 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Elga Andersen is the 2,150th most popular actor (up from 2,710th in 2019), the 2,873rd most popular biography from Germany (up from 3,268th in 2019) and the 67th most popular German Actor.

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  • 53.72

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  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Elga Andersen ranks 2,150 out of 13,578. Before her are Alexander Skarsgård, Carmen Sevilla, Hülya Avşar, Tony Musante, John Mills, and Marie-José Nat. After her are Bonnie Aarons, Scott Bakula, Lesley Manville, Gig Young, Sonny Landham, and Lau Kar-leung.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Elga Andersen ranks 170. Before her are Rashad Khalifa, Ken Kercheval, Dudley Moore, Denise Perrier, Peter Schreier, and Fiorenza Cossotto. After her are Vladica Popović, Seymour Cassel, Shūji Terayama, Zeev Sternhell, Milena Vukotic, and Don Norman. Among people deceased in 1994, Elga Andersen ranks 137. Before her are William Conrad, Stanisław Maczek, Lindsay Anderson, Moana Pozzi, Giovanni Goria, and Alexander Shelepin. After her are Olga Rubtsova, Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen, Zoltán Fábri, Mai Zetterling, Sarah Kofman, and Cameron Mitchell.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elga Andersen ranks 2,873 out of 7,253. Before her are Wilhelm Leibl (1844), Luigi Colani (1928), Claus Schilling (1871), Karl Pfeffer-Wildenbruch (1888), Susanna of Bavaria (1502), and Johannes Werner (1468). After her are Cornelia Funke (1958), Harold Faltermeyer (1952), Wilhelm von Biela (1782), John, Margrave of Brandenburg-Küstrin (1513), Edzard II, Count of East Frisia (1532), and Josias von Heeringen (1850).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Elga Andersen ranks 67. Before her are George Dzundza (1945), Sibel Kekilli (1980), Angela Winkler (1944), Ralf Moeller (1959), Sonja Ziemann (1926), and Anne Buydens (1919). After her are Wolfgang Preiss (1910), Karl Valentin (1882), Franka Potente (1974), Marcel Ophüls (1927), Elmar Wepper (1944), and Gustav Fröhlich (1902).

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Television and Movie Roles

Elevator to the Gallows
Frieda Bencker
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Jan 29th 19587.6 / 10
Le Mans
Lisa Belgetti
Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, Michael Delaney is a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow.
Jun 23rd 19716.75 / 10
Why
Ingrid
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man why?
Oct 27th 19717.2 / 10