The Most Famous
FILM DIRECTORS from Ecuador
This page contains a list of the greatest Ecuadorean Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Ecuador. This makes Ecuador the birth place of the 82nd most number of Film Directors behind Lithuania, and Niger.
Top 1
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Ecuadorean Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Ecuadorean Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.
1. Mike Judge (b. 1962)
With an HPI of 43.94, Mike Judge is the most famous Ecuadorean Film Director. His biography has been translated into 33 different languages on wikipedia.
Michael Craig Judge (born October 17, 1962) is an American actor, animator, writer, producer, director, and musician. He is the creator of the animated television series Beavis and Butt-Head (1993–1997, 2011, 2022–present), and a co-creator of the television series King of the Hill (1997–2010), The Goode Family (2009), Silicon Valley (2014–2019), and Mike Judge Presents: Tales from the Tour Bus (2017–2018). He wrote and directed the films Beavis and Butt-Head Do America (1996), Office Space (1999), Idiocracy (2006), and Extract (2009), and co-wrote the screenplay to Beavis and Butt-Head Do the Universe (2022). Judge was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. He graduated from the University of California, San Diego, where he studied physics. After losing interest in a career in science, Judge focused on animation and short films. His animated short Frog Baseball was developed into the successful MTV series Beavis and Butt-Head, and the spin-off series Daria (with which Judge had no involvement). In 1995, Judge and former Simpsons writer Greg Daniels developed King of the Hill, which debuted on Fox in 1997 and quickly became popular with both critics and audiences. Running for 13 seasons, it became one of the longest-running American animated series. During the run of the show, Judge took time off to write and direct Office Space, Idiocracy and Extract. As King of the Hill was coming to an end, Judge created his third show, ABC's The Goode Family, which received mixed reviews and was cancelled after 13 episodes. After a four-year hiatus, he created his fourth show, the live-action Silicon Valley for HBO, which has received critical acclaim. In 2017, Judge's fourth animated series, the music-themed Tales from the Tour Bus, premiered on Cinemax, to acclaim. Judge has won a Primetime Emmy Award and two Annie Awards for King of the Hill and two Critics' Choice Television Awards and Satellite Awards for Silicon Valley.
People
Pantheon has 1 people classified as Ecuadorean film directors born between 1962 and 1962. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Ecuadorean film directors include Mike Judge.
