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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. Together with her second husband, Peter Gimbel, she embarked on a 1981 diving expedition of the sunken SS Andrea Doria. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Elga Andersen is the 2,286th most popular actor (down from 2,147th in 2019), the 2,971st most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,873rd in 2019) and the 63rd most popular German Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Elga Andersen ranks 2,286 out of 13,578. Before her are Ferdinand Raimund, Jim Carter, Jackie Stallone, Ita Rina, Steve Harvey, and Shirley Jones. After her are Katherine Heigl, Itziar Ituño, Vincent Perez, Dany Boon, Geoffrey Hughes, and Rosa Albach-Retty.

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Among people born in 1935, Elga Andersen ranks 177. Before her are Cliff Jones, M. Emmet Walsh, Fiorenza Cossotto, Peter Bichsel, Shūji Terayama, and Pierre Kartner. After her are Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, Armando Manzanero, Letizia Battaglia, Lisa Gastoni, Dudley Moore, and Akihiro Miwa. Among people deceased in 1994, Elga Andersen ranks 149. Before her are Zoltán Fábri, Agathe Uwilingiyimana, Alex Wilson, Derek Jarman, Maria Carta, and Nicole Brown Simpson. After her are Anni Albers, Frederick Copleston, Stephen Cole Kleene, Ales Adamovich, Roy J. Plunkett, and Grigol Abashidze.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Elga Andersen ranks 2,973 out of 7,253. Before her are Princess Louise of Saxe-Hildburghausen (1794), Sophie of Brandenburg (1568), Otto I, Duke of Brunswick-Harburg (1495), Frederick William, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt (1700), Heinrich Rose (1795), and Ernst Ludwig II, Duke of Saxe-Meiningen (1709). After her are Aribert Reimann (1936), Agnes Hedwig of Anhalt (1573), Rosa Albach-Retty (1874), Adam Kraft (1450), Frieda Fromm-Reichmann (1889), and Karl Mollweide (1774).

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Among ACTORS In Germany

Among actors born in Germany, Elga Andersen ranks 63. Before her are Carola Neher (1900), Sibel Kekilli (1980), Angela Winkler (1944), Eric Braeden (1941), Greta Schröder (1891), and Sebastian Koch (1962). After her are Rosa Albach-Retty (1874), Gustav Fröhlich (1902), Sonja Ziemann (1926), Judith Malina (1926), Bruno S. (1932), and Wolfgang Preiss (1910).

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