ACTOR

Vivian Vance

1909 - 1979

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Vivian Vance (born Vivian Roberta Jones; July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979) was an American actress best known for playing Ethel Mertz on the sitcom I Love Lucy (1951–1957), for which she won the 1953 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress, among other accolades. She also starred alongside Lucille Ball in The Lucy Show from 1962 until she left the series at the end of its third season in 1965. In 1991, she posthumously received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Vivian Vance has received more than 4,450,267 page views. Her biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Vivian Vance is the 6,963rd most popular actor (down from 5,707th in 2019), the 10,277th most popular biography from United States (down from 8,486th in 2019) and the 3,219th most popular American Actor.

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  • 21

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  • 1.41

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  • 4.09

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Vivian Vance ranks 6,963 out of 13,578. Before her are Linda Lavin, Martina Stoessel, Olivia d'Abo, Michael Hordern, Charlie Cox, and Alejandra Guzmán. After her are Irma P. Hall, Mady Christians, Jan Josef Liefers, Jung Yu-mi, Curtis Armstrong, and Marc Blucas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1909, Vivian Vance ranks 384. Before her are Juan Pedevilla, Joyce Cooper, Stefan Skoumal, Karen Morley, Dragomir Tošić, and E. M. S. Namboodiripad. After her are William Gemmell Cochran, Teofilo Spasojević, Vladimir Barmin, Frank Albertson, Alan Curtis, and Piero Scotti. Among people deceased in 1979, Vivian Vance ranks 263. Before her are Edward Akufo-Addo, Adolph Dubs, Charles Coughlin, Karel Senecký, Wálter Guimarães, and Giovanni De Prà. After her are Roy Harris, J. G. Farrell, Klaus Egge, Laurie Bird, Gracie Fields, and Arthur Fiedler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Vivian Vance ranks 10,277 out of 20,380. Before her are Leroy Carr (1905), Linda Lavin (1937), Norman Malcolm (1911), John Casper (1943), Roland Burris (1937), and Tony Ferguson (1984). After her are Steven Mnuchin (1962), Irma P. Hall (1935), Leila Denmark (1898), Renée Fleming (1959), Robert A. M. Stern (1939), and George B. Seitz (1888).

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Among ACTORS In United States

Among actors born in United States, Vivian Vance ranks 3,219. Before her are Martha Mansfield (1899), Susan Dey (1952), Edna May Oliver (1883), Bonita Granville (1923), Harry A. Pollard (1879), and Linda Lavin (1937). After her are Irma P. Hall (1935), Curtis Armstrong (1953), Marc Blucas (1972), Corin Nemec (1971), Leatrice Joy (1893), and Jenny Slate (1982).

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Television and Movie Roles

I Love Lucy
Ethel Mertz
Cuban Bandleader Ricky Ricardo would be happy if his wife Lucy would just be a housewife. Instead she tries constantly to perform at the Tropicana where he works, and make life comically frantic in the apartment building they share with landlords Fred and Ethel Mertz, who also happen to be their best friends.
7.984 / 10
The Great Race
Hester Goodbody
Professional daredevil and white-suited hero, The Great Leslie, convinces turn-of-the-century auto makers that a race from New York to Paris (westward across America, the Bering Straight and Russia) will help to promote automobile sales. Leslie's arch-rival, the mustached and black-attired Professor Fate vows to beat Leslie to the finish line in a car of Fate's own invention.
Jul 1o 19657.1 / 10
The Lorax
Singer
The Once-ler, a ruined industrialist, tells the tale of his rise to wealth and subsequent fall, as he disregarded the warnings of a wise old forest creature called the Lorax about the environmental destruction caused by his greed.
Feb 14o 19727.096 / 10