Film Director

Maya Deren

American filmmaker

1917 - 1961

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Her biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia. Maya Deren is the 454th most popular film director (up from 455th in 2024), the 331st most popular biography from Ukraine (up from 335th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

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Maya Deren is one of only 239 women among the 2,041 Film Directors in Pantheon.

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Maya Deren's biography appears in 31 language editions of Wikipedia — more than 76% of all Film Directors.

Apr 29

Maya Deren shares a April 29 birthday with Hirohito, Alexander II of Russia, and Henri Poincaré.

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Among Film Directors

Among film directors, Maya Deren ranks 454 out of 2,041. Before her are Václav Vorlíček, Alexander Korda, Chuck Lorre, Jan Troell, Ernst Marischka, and Jerzy Hoffman. After her are Néstor Almendros, Robert Rossen, Larisa Shepitko, James L. Brooks, Joe Dante, and John Boorman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Maya Deren ranks 125. Before her are John Connally, Carlos Puebla, Erich Rudorffer, Paul Frère, Petar Brzica, and Fulbert Youlou. After her are João Saldanha, Mak Dizdar, Wieland Wagner, Yakov Pavlov, Henri Salvador, and Asima Chatterjee. Among people deceased in 1961, Maya Deren ranks 54. Before her are Shigeko Higashikuni, Gustav Ucicky, Henri Breuil, Anna May Wong, Thomas Beecham, and Nicola Canali. After her are Paul Ramadier, Grandma Moses, Herbert Pitman, Hélène Dutrieu, Howard P. Robertson, and Robert Garrett.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Maya Deren ranks 331 out of 1,365. Before her are Yaakov Dori (1899), Igor Shafarevich (1923), Mark Taimanov (1926), Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880), Zbigniew Herbert (1924), and Tamara Smirnova (1935). After her are Severyn Nalyvaiko (1560), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky (1864), Theodosius of Kiev (1029), Sergei Bortkiewicz (1877), and Michał Boym (1614).

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Among Film Directors In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Maya Deren ranks 8. Before her are Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), Otto Preminger (1905), Anatole Litvak (1902), Richard Boleslawski (1889), and Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922). After her are Larisa Shepitko (1938), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Aleksandr Ptushko (1900), Les Kurbas (1887), Aleksei Kapler (1904), and Yuri Ilyenko (1936).

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