FILM DIRECTOR

Anthony Minghella

1954 - 2008

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Anthony Minghella, (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director, playwright, and screenwriter. He was chairman of the board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007. He directed Truly, Madly, Deeply (1990), The English Patient (1996), The Talented Mr. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anthony Minghella has received more than 2,819,307 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Anthony Minghella is the 334th most popular film director (up from 365th in 2019), the 1,307th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,458th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular British Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Anthony Minghella ranks 334 out of 2,041. Before him are George Roy Hill, Jane Campion, Gustav Ucicky, Samuel Fuller, Jan de Bont, and William Kennedy Dickson. After him are Jean Rouch, Chen Kaige, Claude Sautet, Sofia Coppola, Tobe Hooper, and Arthur Cohn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1954, Anthony Minghella ranks 83. Before him are Mango, Leovegildo Lins da Gama Júnior, Jermaine Jackson, Ellen Barkin, Jane Campion, and Juande Ramos. After him are Mirza Delibašić, Michael Emerson, Gabi Ashkenazi, Marco Tardelli, Milan Martić, and Alejandro Sabella. Among people deceased in 2008, Anthony Minghella ranks 74. Before him are Isaac Hayes, Henry Molaison, Jean-Marie Balestre, Eartha Kitt, Mate Parlov, and Bettie Page. After him are Don S. Davis, Daniel Carleton Gajdusek, Bernardin Gantin, Khertek Anchimaa-Toka, Kiyosi Itô, and Michael DeBakey.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Anthony Minghella ranks 1,307 out of 8,785. Before him are William Booth (1829), Alexander Cunningham (1814), Frederic Bartlett (1886), Joan of Kent (1328), Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800), and Gareth Bale (1989). After him are Ginger Baker (1939), David Hartley (1705), Lucinda Riley (1965), Jack Charlton (1935), Roddy McDowall (1928), and Seal (1963).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Anthony Minghella ranks 22. Before him are Tony Richardson (1928), Frank Lloyd (1886), David Hamilton (1933), John Schlesinger (1926), Adrian Lyne (1941), and John Boorman (1933). After him are J. Lee Thompson (1914), Roland Joffé (1945), Sam Mendes (1965), John Guillermin (1925), Michael Anderson (1920), and David Yates (1963).

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Filmography

The Reader
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The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Dec 10th 20087.5 / 10
Michael Clayton
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A law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.
Sep 28th 20076.779 / 10
The Interpreter
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After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
Apr 8th 20056.3 / 10