FILM DIRECTOR

Aleksander Ford

1908 - 1980

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Aleksander Ford has received more than 77,252 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Aleksander Ford is the 816th most popular film director (down from 799th in 2019), the 608th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 544th in 2019) and the 17th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

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  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.60

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  • 3.42

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Aleksander Ford ranks 816 out of 2,041. Before him are Ulu Grosbard, Vladimir Gardin, Gulzar, Matthew Vaughn, Ari Folman, and Edgar Reitz. After him are Sion Sono, Sean S. Cunningham, Andrew Davis, Urban Gad, Jean-Pierre Ponnelle, and Ernest B. Schoedsack.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Aleksander Ford ranks 222. Before him are Agustín Sauto Arana, Carlos Lleras Restrepo, Marina Semyonova, Oddbjørn Hagen, Percy Faith, and Nicholas Kurti. After him are Jenő Vincze, František Kriegel, Louis Jordan, Nikolai Aleksandrovich Kozyrev, Teizo Takeuchi, and Tommaso Landolfi. Among people deceased in 1980, Aleksander Ford ranks 175. Before him are Boris Delaunay, Boris Kaufman, George Pal, Arend Heyting, Marcel Langiller, and Katherine Anne Porter. After him are Andrija Anković, Juan García Oliver, Harri Larva, Graham Sutherland, Maurice Genevoix, and Ragnar Gustavsson.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Aleksander Ford ranks 608 out of 1,365. Before him are Karl Doppler (1825), Vladimir Veksler (1907), Polina Gelman (1919), Abraham Lempel (1936), Jacek Kuroń (1934), and Nathan Altman (1889). After him are Anatoliy Tymoshchuk (1979), Anatoliy Demyanenko (1959), Leonid Zhabotinsky (1938), František Kriegel (1908), Viktor Knorre (1840), and Viktor Tsybulenko (1930).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Aleksander Ford ranks 17. Before him are Grigory Chukhray (1921), Yuri Ilyenko (1936), Les Kurbas (1887), Aleksandr Ptushko (1900), Aleksei Kapler (1904), and Roman Karmen (1906). After him are Janusz Majewski (1931), David Cherkassky (1931), Lucian Pintilie (1933), Mark Donskoy (1901), Pyotr Todorovsky (1925), and Konstantin Lopushansky (1947).

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