The Most Famous

FILM DIRECTORS from Jamaica

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This page contains a list of the greatest Jamaican Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 2,041 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in Jamaica. This makes Jamaica the birth place of the 70th most number of Film Directors behind Kazakhstan, and Haiti.

Top 1

The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Jamaican Film Directors of all time. This list of famous Jamaican Film Directors is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Stephen Hopkins (b. 1958)

With an HPI of 52.05, Stephen Hopkins is the most famous Jamaican Film Director.  His biography has been translated into 18 different languages on wikipedia.

Stephen Hopkins is a Jamaican-born British-Australian director and producer of film and television. He directed Predator 2, A Nightmare on Elm Street 5: The Dream Child, Blown Away, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers, Lost in Space and Under Suspicion. He also produced and directed several episodes of the first season of 24.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Jamaican film directors born between 1958 and 1958. Of these 1, 1 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Jamaican film directors include Stephen Hopkins.

Living Jamaican Film Directors

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