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Herman van Veen

1945 - Today

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Hermannus Jantinus van Veen (born 14 March 1945) is a Dutch stage performer, actor, author, singer-songwriter and musician. He worked with accompanists Laurens van Rooyen and Erik van der Wurff, both were pianist annex composer. In addition to performing internationally, van Veen is famous as the creator of Alfred J. Kwak (1976). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herman van Veen has received more than 148,897 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Herman van Veen is the 2,470th most popular actor (up from 2,707th in 2019), the 499th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 504th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Dutch Actor.

Memorability Metrics

  • 150k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 52.73

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 17

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.71

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.51

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Herman van Veens by language

Over the past year Herman van Veen has had the most page views in the with 105,284 views, followed by German (55,679), and English (19,150). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (214.29%), Esperanto (119.21%), and Afrikaans (65.43%)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Herman van Veen ranks 2,470 out of 13,578. Before him are Greg Kinnear, Jacques Villeret, Sandra Hüller, Paul Reiser, Maria Tănase, and John Marley. After him are Annie Cordy, John Garfield, Leslie Jones, Muse Watson, Úrsula Corberó, and Kathleen Freeman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Herman van Veen ranks 247. Before him are Kim Larsen, Dusty Rhodes, Awad Hamed al-Bandar, Bob Seger, Shulamith Firestone, and Mimsy Farmer. After him are Peter Lamborn Wilson, Neophyte of Bulgaria, Tommy Franks, Werner Schroeter, Bob Balaban, and Zoltán Varga.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Herman van Veen ranks 499 out of 1,646. Before him are Joachim Wtewael (1566), Jelle Zijlstra (1918), Cornelis Bloemaert (1603), Nina Foch (1924), Louis Andriessen (1939), and Coenraad Johannes van Houten (1801). After him are Gerald Vanenburg (1964), Jan Wouters (1960), Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (1821), Willem Pieterszoon Buytewech (1591), Floor Jansen (1981), and Derek de Lint (1950).

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Among ACTORS In Netherlands

Among actors born in Netherlands, Herman van Veen ranks 9. Before him are Famke Janssen (1964), Jeroen Krabbé (1944), Johannes Heesters (1903), Carel Struycken (1948), Fons Rademakers (1920), and Nina Foch (1924). After him are Derek de Lint (1950), Carice van Houten (1976), Maruschka Detmers (1962), Willeke van Ammelrooy (1944), Monique van de Ven (1952), and Jetta Goudal (1891).

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Television and Movie Roles

Princess
Mark
Princess is the title of a photo novel which will be written by Walter and photographed by Mark. A story of sex and violence which has great success. But Mark falls so much in love with his model that he can't tell her apart from Princess...
Jan 1o 19693 / 10
Ciske the Rat
Meester Bruis
Lovable Amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old Ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the Dutch 1984 title suggests. He is a scamp with a heart of gold. He causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. His mother works in a bar and Ciske helps out often late into the night - his father is at sea and his mother supplements her income with prostitution. Ciske is also a very angry young man and he smoulders with rage at life's injustices.
Mar 29o 19846.5 / 10
Alfred J. Kwak
Krabnagel (voice)
Alfred J. Kwak is a cartoon television series based on a Dutch theatre show by Herman van Veen and was co-produced by VARA, Telecable Benelux B.V. and TV Tokyo and first shown in 1989. It consists of 52 episodes. The series characters were designed by Harald Siepermann. There are also toys and a comic based on the animated series. The series has been broadcast in many countries and has been dubbed and subtitled in Dutch, French, Japanese, Greek, English, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Arabic, Hungarian, Finnish, Serbian, Polish, German, Swedish, Danish, Icelandic, Chinese, Czech, Korean and Norwegian. In 1991, Herman van Veen won the Goldene Kamera award for the cartoon.
7.443 / 10