1908 - 1980
Aleksander Ford (born Mosze Lifszyc; 24 November 1908 in Kiev, Russian Empire – 4 April 1980 in Naples, Florida, U.S.) was a Polish film director and head of the Polish People's Army Film Crew in the Soviet Union during World War II. Following the war, he was appointed director of the Film Polski company.In 1948 he was appointed a professor of the National Film School in Łódź (Państwowa Wyższa Szkoła Filmowa). Roman Polanski and Polish film director Andrzej Wajda were among his students. Amid an anti-Semitic purge in the communist party in Poland, Ford was stopped from preparing a film on the life of a Jewish educator. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksander Ford has received more than 70,741 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Aleksander Ford is the 801st most popular film director (down from 766th in 2019), the 547th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 479th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.
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Among film directors, Aleksander Ford ranks 801 out of 1,581. Before him are Dariush Mehrjui, John Cromwell, Jasmila Žbanić, Ruy Guerra, Eli Roth, and Gianni Amelio. After him are Julio Medem, Antoine Fuqua, Dennis Dugan, Paul Scheuring, Kajirō Yamamoto, and Gordon Douglas.
1939 - 2023
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 795
1886 - 1979
HPI: 49.17
Rank: 796
1974 - Present
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 797
1931 - Present
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 798
1972 - Present
HPI: 49.14
Rank: 799
1945 - Present
HPI: 49.09
Rank: 800
1908 - 1980
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 801
1958 - Present
HPI: 49.05
Rank: 802
1966 - Present
HPI: 49.04
Rank: 803
1946 - Present
HPI: 49.02
Rank: 804
1968 - Present
HPI: 49.02
Rank: 805
1902 - 1974
HPI: 49.02
Rank: 806
1907 - 1993
HPI: 49.01
Rank: 807
Among people born in 1908, Aleksander Ford ranks 208. Before him are Kočo Racin, Ethel Merman, Ștefan Barbu, Hugo Distler, Agustín Sauto Arana, and Marcel Langiller. After him are Simonne Mathieu, Jim Brown, Odette Bancilhon, Vladimir Kotelnikov, Joshua Logan, and Nicholas Kurti. Among people deceased in 1980, Aleksander Ford ranks 166. Before him are Graham Sutherland, Ahmad Shukeiri, Boris Kaufman, Marcel Langiller, Jijé, and Nihat Erim. After him are Rostislav Alexeyev, Simonne Mathieu, André Parrot, Arend Heyting, George Pal, and Joseph Banks Rhine.
1908 - 1943
HPI: 49.28
Rank: 202
1908 - 1984
HPI: 49.27
Rank: 203
1908 - 1970
HPI: 49.26
Rank: 204
1908 - 1942
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 205
1908 - 1986
HPI: 49.12
Rank: 206
1908 - 1980
HPI: 49.09
Rank: 207
1908 - 1980
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 208
1908 - 1980
HPI: 49.00
Rank: 209
1908 - 1994
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 210
1908 - 1998
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 211
1908 - 2005
HPI: 48.95
Rank: 212
1908 - 1988
HPI: 48.93
Rank: 213
1908 - 1998
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 214
1903 - 1980
HPI: 49.48
Rank: 160
1908 - 1980
HPI: 49.40
Rank: 161
1906 - 1980
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 162
1908 - 1980
HPI: 49.09
Rank: 163
1914 - 1980
HPI: 49.09
Rank: 164
1912 - 1980
HPI: 49.09
Rank: 165
1908 - 1980
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 166
1916 - 1980
HPI: 49.02
Rank: 167
1908 - 1980
HPI: 49.00
Rank: 168
1901 - 1980
HPI: 48.97
Rank: 169
1898 - 1980
HPI: 48.96
Rank: 170
1908 - 1980
HPI: 48.84
Rank: 171
1895 - 1980
HPI: 48.67
Rank: 172
Among people born in Ukraine, Aleksander Ford ranks 547 out of 1,083. Before him are Jerzy Kuryłowicz (1895), Mikhail Zhvanetsky (1934), Shura Cherkassky (1909), Viktor Knorre (1840), Aleksander Brückner (1856), and Leonid Stein (1934). After him are Oleksiy Honcharuk (1984), Joseph Ludwig Raabe (1801), Mieczysław Horszowski (1892), Ivan Martos (1754), Elina Bystritskaya (1928), and Yevgeniya Rudneva (1921).
1895 - 1978
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 541
1934 - 2020
HPI: 49.20
Rank: 542
1909 - 1995
HPI: 49.19
Rank: 543
1840 - 1919
HPI: 49.18
Rank: 544
1856 - 1939
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 545
1934 - 1973
HPI: 49.10
Rank: 546
1908 - 1980
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 547
1984 - Present
HPI: 49.05
Rank: 548
1801 - 1859
HPI: 49.00
Rank: 549
1892 - 1993
HPI: 48.99
Rank: 550
1754 - 1835
HPI: 48.91
Rank: 551
1928 - 2019
HPI: 48.90
Rank: 552
1921 - 1944
HPI: 48.89
Rank: 553
Among film directors born in Ukraine, Aleksander Ford ranks 15. Before him are Richard Boleslawski (1889), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Aleksei Kapler (1904), Grigory Chukhray (1921), Aleksandr Ptushko (1900), and Roman Karmen (1906). After him are Lucian Pintilie (1933), Pyotr Todorovsky (1925), Mark Donskoy (1901), Roman Viktyuk (1936), Leonid Osyka (1940), and Volodymyr Dakhno (1932).
1889 - 1937
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 9
1905 - 1973
HPI: 51.90
Rank: 10
1904 - 1979
HPI: 51.75
Rank: 11
1921 - 2001
HPI: 51.41
Rank: 12
1900 - 1973
HPI: 50.44
Rank: 13
1906 - 1978
HPI: 49.51
Rank: 14
1908 - 1980
HPI: 49.07
Rank: 15
1933 - 2018
HPI: 48.85
Rank: 16
1925 - 2013
HPI: 48.25
Rank: 17
1901 - 1981
HPI: 47.75
Rank: 18
1936 - 2020
HPI: 46.87
Rank: 19
1940 - 2001
HPI: 44.19
Rank: 20
1932 - 2006
HPI: 44.08
Rank: 21