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FILM DIRECTORS from New Caledonia

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This page contains a list of the greatest Film Directors. The pantheon dataset contains 1,581 Film Directors, 1 of which were born in New Caledonia. This makes New Caledonia the birth place of the 77th most number of Film Directors behind Luxembourg and North Macedonia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Film Directors of all time. This list of famous 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. Colin Higgins (1941 - 1988)

With an HPI of 44.43, Colin Higgins is the most famous Film Director.  Her biography has been translated into 21 different languages on wikipedia.

Colin Higgins (28 July 1941 – 5 August 1988) was an Australian-American screenwriter, actor, director, and producer. He was best known for writing the screenplay for the 1971 film Harold and Maude, and for directing the films Foul Play (1978) and 9 to 5 (1980).

Pantheon has 1 people classified as film directors born between 1941 and 1941. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased film directors include Colin Higgins.

Deceased Film Directors

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