FILM DIRECTOR

Anatole Litvak

1902 - 1974

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Anatoly Mikhailovich Litvak OBE (10 May 1902 – 15 December 1974), commonly known as Anatole Litvak, was a Russian-American filmmaker. Born to Jewish parents in Kiev, he began his theatrical training at age 13 in St. Petersburg, where he lived through the end of the Russian Revolution. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anatole Litvak has received more than 362,458 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Anatole Litvak is the 323rd most popular film director (down from 222nd in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 154th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

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  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.90

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Anatole Litvak ranks 323 out of 2,041. Before him are Jack L. Warner, Adolph Zukor, Dušan Makavejev, Yuen Woo-ping, Marc Allégret, and Francis Veber. After him are King Vidor, Steven Soderbergh, Garry Marshall, Leo McCarey, George Roy Hill, and Jane Campion.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Anatole Litvak ranks 81. Before him are Richard Rodgers, Wifredo Lam, Langston Hughes, Lyubov Orlova, Charan Singh, and Alfredo Binda. After him are Norma Shearer, Yasuhito, Prince Chichibu, Gertrud Scholtz-Klink, Maurice Duruflé, Hans Bellmer, and Jean Rey. Among people deceased in 1974, Anatole Litvak ranks 54. Before him are Agnes Moorehead, Marcel Achard, Pietro Germi, André Jolivet, Earl Wilbur Sutherland Jr., and Everaldo. After him are Pavel Bermondt-Avalov, Leo Geyr von Schweppenburg, James J. Braddock, Jean Absil, Vasily Shukshin, and Otto Braun.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Anatole Litvak ranks 232 out of 1,365. Before him are Aharon Appelfeld (1932), Yuri Kondratyuk (1897), Sergey Gorshkov (1910), Nina Matviienko (1947), Stanisław Sosabowski (1892), and Peter Wittgenstein (1768). After him are Alexander Rutskoy (1947), Mikhail Eisenstein (1867), Samuel Noah Kramer (1897), Ivan Bohun (1618), Lyudmila Gurchenko (1935), and Natan Sharansky (1948).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Anatole Litvak ranks 5. Before him are Andrzej Żuławski (1940), Sergei Bondarchuk (1920), Alexander Dovzhenko (1894), and Otto Preminger (1905). After him are Jerzy Kawalerowicz (1922), Maya Deren (1917), Larisa Shepitko (1938), Richard Boleslawski (1889), Grigori Kozintsev (1905), Grigory Chukhray (1921), and Yuri Ilyenko (1936).

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