Film Director

Franco Zeffirelli

Italian film and television director and producer

1923 - 2019

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His biography is available in 53 different languages on Wikipedia. Franco Zeffirelli is the 81st most popular film director (down from 80th in 2024), the 734th most popular biography from Italy (down from 675th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Italian Film Director.

Franco Zeffirelli is most famous for his work on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and La Traviata.

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Franco Zeffirelli ranks #81 of 2,296 Film Directors worldwide, placing them among the top 4% of the profession.

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Franco Zeffirelli's biography appears in 53 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 94% of all Film Directors.

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Among Film Directors

Among film directors, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 81 out of 2,296. Before him are John Waters, F. W. Murnau, Tony Scott, Agnès Varda, Dziga Vertov, and Alain Resnais. After him are Alan Parker, Robert Bresson, Peter Brook, Ernst Lubitsch, Fred Zinnemann, and Howard Hawks.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 23. Before him are Rocky Marciano, Peter II of Yugoslavia, György Ligeti, Marcel Marceau, Mas Oyama, and Queen Anne of Romania. After him are Val Logsdon Fitch, Jack Kilby, Roy Lichtenstein, Richard Attenborough, Arvid Carlsson, and Mauno Koivisto. Among people deceased in 2019, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 24. Before him are I. M. Pei, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Peter Fonda, Karel Gott, Agnès Varda, and Beji Caid Essebsi. After him are Doris Day, Marie Fredriksson, Bert Hellinger, Murray Gell-Mann, João Gilberto, and Mariss Jansons.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 734 out of 5,905. Before him are Domenico Modugno (1928), Oriana Fallaci (1929), Agostino Carracci (1557), Alfonso I d'Este, Duke of Ferrara (1476), Giovanni Agnelli (1866), and Giacomo Barozzi da Vignola (1507). After him are Lucullus (-118), Marcus Furius Camillus (-446), Salvatore Quasimodo (1901), Fausto Coppi (1919), Desiderius (710), and Bernardino of Siena (1380).

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Among Film Directors In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 11. Before him are Sergio Leone (1929), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912), Vittorio De Sica (1901), Tinto Brass (1933), Roberto Rossellini (1906), and Frank Capra (1897). After him are Dario Argento (1940), Giuseppe Tornatore (1956), Ettore Scola (1931), Sergio Corbucci (1926), Dino Risi (1916), and Pasquale Squitieri (1938).

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