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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. 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

Among film directors, Aleksander Ford ranks 801 out of 1,581Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Aleksander Ford ranks 208Before 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 166Before 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.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Aleksander Ford ranks 547 out of 1,083Before 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).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Aleksander Ford ranks 15Before 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).

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