Angèle Durand
{{Short description|Belgian singer and actress (1925–2001)}}
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Angèle Caroline Liliane Josette Marie-José DeGeest (Antwerp 23 October 1925 – Augsburg 22 December 2001) was a Belgian singer and actress. Durand was a popular singer in Germany during the early 1950s.Obituaries in the Performing Arts, 2001 Harris M. Lentz III – 2002 078641278X
She was 76. She was born Angele Caroline De Geest in Antwerpen, Belgium, on October 23, 1925. Durand was a popular singer from the late 1940s and performed with Duke Ellington's band in Brussels in 1950. She subsequently appeared in a handful of films in Germany including Kapt'n Bay-Bay (1952), De Lachende Vagabund (1958), Five Sinners (1960), O Sole Mio (1960), Das Ratsel der Grunen Spinne (1960) and The Playgirls and the Bellboy (1962).
Filmography
- Captain Bay-Bay (1953) by Helmut Käutner
- Dancing in the Sun (1954) by Géza von Cziffra
- A Girl from Paris (1954)
- The Mistress of Solderhof (1955)
- {{Ill|Der lachende Vagabund (film)|de|3=Der lachende Vagabund (Film)|lt=Der lachende Vagabund}} (1958)
- {{ill|Das Nachtlokal zum Silbermond|de}} (Five Sinners, 1959)
- Hula-Hopp, Conny (1959)
- The Scarlet Baroness (1959)
- Hit Parade 1960 (1960)
- Das Rätsel der grünen Spinne (1960)
- {{Ill|O sole mio (1960 film)|de|3=O sole mio (1960)|lt=O sole mio}} (1960)
- The Bellboy and the Playgirls (1962) by Francis Ford Coppola
- Don't Fool with Me (1962)
- I’m an Antistar (1976) by Rosa von Praunheim
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Category:20th-century Belgian women singers
Category:20th-century Belgian singers
Category:German-language singers of Belgium
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