ACTOR

Maurice Chevalier

1888 - 1972

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Maurice Auguste Chevalier (French: [mɔʁis ʃəvalje]; 12 September 1888 – 1 January 1972) was a French singer, actor, and entertainer. He is best known for his signature songs, including "Livin' In The Sunlight", "Valentine", "Louise", "Mimi", and "Thank Heaven for Little Girls", and for his films, including The Love Parade, The Big Pond, The Smiling Lieutenant, One Hour with You, and Love Me Tonight. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Maurice Chevalier has received more than 1,643,097 page views. His biography is available in 55 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 54 in 2019). Maurice Chevalier is the 312th most popular actor (up from 345th in 2019), the 646th most popular biography from France (up from 707th in 2019) and the 27th most popular French Actor.

Maurice Chevalier was a French actor and singer. He is most famous for his songs, including "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" and "Louise."

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  • 1.6M

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  • 66.08

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  • 55

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  • 6.01

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  • 3.81

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among ACTORS

Among actors, Maurice Chevalier ranks 312 out of 13,578. Before him are Carl Weathers, Kim Novak, Mia Farrow, Leonard Nimoy, Sean Penn, and Ian Holm. After him are Daniel Craig, Michael J. Fox, Matt Damon, Jennifer Aniston, Julianne Moore, and Carrie Fisher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1888, Maurice Chevalier ranks 29. Before him are Eugene O'Neill, Richard E. Byrd, Friedrich Fromm, Johannes Itten, T. S. Eliot, and Gerrit Rietveld. After him are F. W. Murnau, Selman Waksman, Friedrich Olbricht, Andrei Tupolev, Anton Makarenko, and Inge Lehmann. Among people deceased in 1972, Maurice Chevalier ranks 21. Before him are Cristóbal Balenciaga, Katherine Oppenheimer, Talal of Jordan, Paul Hausser, Princess Sibylla of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, and Erhard Milch. After him are Dino Buzzati, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Andrei Tupolev, Paul-Henri Spaak, Heinrich Lübke, and Max Theiler.

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In France

Among people born in France, Maurice Chevalier ranks 646 out of 6,770. Before him are Guillaume de l'Hôpital (1661), Emma of Normandy (985), W. Somerset Maugham (1874), Ariovistus (-101), François Guizot (1787), and Louis Blériot (1872). After him are Hugh the Great (898), Ferdinand Cheval (1836), Ansgar (801), Georges Perec (1936), Ausonius (310), and Marcel Lefebvre (1905).

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Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Maurice Chevalier ranks 27. Before him are Pierre Richard (1934), Mireille Darc (1938), Michel Piccoli (1925), Sophie Marceau (1966), Marina Vlady (1938), and Juliette Binoche (1964). After him are Robert Hossein (1927), Michèle Mercier (1939), Marie Laforêt (1939), Juliette Gréco (1927), Fanny Ardant (1949), and Mylène Demongeot (1935).

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Television and Movie Roles

Gigi
Honoré Lachaille
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
May 15th 19586.203 / 10
Love in the Afternoon
Claude Chavasse
Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.
May 29th 19577 / 10
Love Me Tonight
Maurice 'Baron' Courtelin
A Parisian tailor goes to a château to collect a bill, only to fall for an aloof young princess living there.
Aug 18th 19326.6 / 10