FILM DIRECTOR

Alain Corneau

1943 - 2010

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Alain Corneau (7 August 1943 – 30 August 2010) was a French film director and writer. Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work with the actor Yves Montand, with whom he would collaborate three times later in his career, including Police Python 357 (1976) and La Menace (1977). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alain Corneau has received more than 103,358 page views. His biography is available in 35 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 34 in 2019). Alain Corneau is the 533rd most popular film director (down from 516th in 2019), the 2,900th most popular biography from France (down from 2,764th in 2019) and the 80th most popular French Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Alain Corneau ranks 533 out of 2,041. Before him are Mikhail Romm, Gorō Miyazaki, Ken Annakin, Jennifer Lee, Osamu Dezaki, and Ferdinand Zecca. After him are Andrzej Munk, Denys Arcand, Philip Kaufman, Paul W. S. Anderson, Hugh Hudson, and Olivier Assayas.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1943, Alain Corneau ranks 239. Before him are Rashid Sunyaev, Patrick Demarchelier, Maurice Bishop, Valery Nepomnyashchy, Angélica María, and Osamu Dezaki. After him are Douglas Tompkins, Joselito, Aleksandr Pavlovich Aleksandrov, Angelo Bagnasco, Andrea True, and Giovanni Goria. Among people deceased in 2010, Alain Corneau ranks 128. Before him are Anatoly Dobrynin, Luis García Berlanga, Adriaan Blaauw, Raymond Franz, Tom Bosley, and John Leslie. After him are Anna Walentynowicz, Giuseppe Taddei, Jill Clayburgh, Paul Augustin Mayer, Per Oscarsson, and Manute Bol.

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In France

Among people born in France, Alain Corneau ranks 2,900 out of 6,770. Before him are Claude Le Roy (1948), Gérard Blain (1930), Élie, duc Decazes (1780), Jean-Baptiste Debret (1768), Ferdinand Zecca (1864), and Mirra Alfassa (1878). After him are Jack Lang (1939), René Duguay-Trouin (1673), Guillaume Le Gentil (1725), Daniel Buren (1938), Petrus Comestor (1100), and Lupus Servatus (805).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Alain Corneau ranks 80. Before him are Pierre Woodman (1963), Jean-Daniel Cadinot (1944), Marcel Camus (1912), Claude Autant-Lara (1901), Benoît Jacquot (1947), and Ferdinand Zecca (1864). After him are Olivier Assayas (1955), Marcel L'Herbier (1888), Georges Lautner (1926), Jean-Paul Rappeneau (1932), Albert Lamorisse (1922), and Michel Hazanavicius (1967).

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