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Hervé Villechaize

1943 - 1993

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Hervé Jean-Pierre Villechaize (French: [ɛʁve vilʃɛz]; April 23, 1943 – September 4, 1993) was a French actor and painter. He is best known for his roles as the evil henchman Nick Nack in the 1974 James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun, and as Mr. Roarke's assistant, Tattoo, on the American television series Fantasy Island that he played from 1977 to 1983. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hervé Villechaize has received more than 5,965,125 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Hervé Villechaize is the 1,097th most popular actor (up from 1,196th in 2019), the 1,778th most popular biography from France (up from 1,867th in 2019) and the 92nd most popular French Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Hervé Villechaize ranks 1,097 out of 13,578Before him are Ma Dong-seok, Victor Garber, José Ferrer, Martin Short, Victoria Abril, and Marika Rökk. After him are Angie Dickinson, Shih Kien, Brad Davis, Stephen Fry, Victor French, and Liv Tyler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Hervé Villechaize ranks 132Before him are Martin Campbell, Lorenzo Sanz, Paul Michael Glaser, Paul Wolfowitz, Wallace Shawn, and Köbi Kuhn. After him are Luis Carlos Galán, Ken Norton, Robbie Robertson, Richard Sennett, Masafumi Hara, and Jack Bruce. Among people deceased in 1993, Hervé Villechaize ranks 60Before him are Leonid Gaidai, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, Tofiq Bahramov, Léo Ferré, Adelaide Hall, and Rahmon Nabiyev. After him are Felice Borel, Pierre Bérégovoy, Eddie Constantine, Silvina Ocampo, Luciano Leggio, and Yen Chia-kan.

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In France

Among people born in France, Hervé Villechaize ranks 1,778 out of 6,770Before him are Anne Desclos (1907), René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle (1643), Lambert Wilson (1958), Pierre Belon (1517), Joseph Fesch (1763), and Joseph Bertrand (1822). After him are Charles II, Duke of Bourbon (1434), Julian the Hospitaller (700), Charles, Duke of Brittany (1319), Maurice Herzog (1919), Elisabeth Therese of Lorraine (1711), and Yo-Yo Ma (1955).

Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Hervé Villechaize ranks 92Before him are Miou-Miou (1950), Marisa Berenson (1947), Jean Dujardin (1972), Alain Cuny (1908), Emmanuelle Seigner (1966), and Lambert Wilson (1958). After him are Christiane Martel (1936), Michel Bouquet (1925), Adrienne Lecouvreur (1692), Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911), Catherine Spaak (1945), and François Périer (1919).