FILM DIRECTOR

Benjamin Christensen

1879 - 1959

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Benjamin Christensen (28 September 1879 – 2 April 1959) was a Danish film director, screenwriter and an actor, both in film and on the stage. As a director, he was best known for his 1922 film Häxan (aka Witchcraft Through the Ages). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Christensen has received more than 141,681 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Benjamin Christensen is the 839th most popular film director (down from 711th in 2019), the 402nd most popular biography from Denmark (down from 347th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Danish Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 140k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 50.10

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.87

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Benjamin Christensen ranks 839 out of 2,041. Before him are Henri Decoin, Timothy Treadwell, Mick Jackson, Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Hong Sang-soo, and Raoul Coutard. After him are Rustam Ibragimbekov, Rosa von Praunheim, Alexander Rou, Luis Puenzo, Sergio Martino, and András Kovács.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Benjamin Christensen ranks 148. Before him are Urban Gad, Jin Shuren, Walery Sławek, Otto Wahle, Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, and René Pottier. After him are Osman Aqçoqraqlı, Petros Persakis, Adolf Wiklund, Wladimir Aïtoff, Nikolai Vissarionovich Nekrasov, and Pierre Cérésole. Among people deceased in 1959, Benjamin Christensen ranks 120. Before him are Mutara III Rudahigwa, Edmund Goulding, Pierre Frieden, Charles Starkweather, Friedrich Waismann, and Maxwell Anderson. After him are Franz Blücher, Boris Eikhenbaum, Sténio Vincent, Stepan Erzia, Alfonso López Pumarejo, and Jacob Epstein.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Benjamin Christensen ranks 402 out of 1,032. Before him are Kristian Zahrtmann (1843), Sofie Gråbøl (1968), Karin Michaëlis (1872), Wilhelm Bendz (1804), Jacob Riis (1849), and Georg Mohr (1640). After him are Johanne Luise Heiberg (1812), Jens Jacob Asmussen Worsaae (1821), Karl Aage Præst (1922), Princess Dorothea of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Beck (1685), Theodor Philipsen (1840), and L. A. Ring (1854).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Denmark

Among film directors born in Denmark, Benjamin Christensen ranks 11. Before him are Thomas Vinterberg (1969), Susanne Bier (1960), Henning Carlsen (1927), Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947), Erik Balling (1924), and Urban Gad (1879). After him are Nicolas Winding Refn (1970), Jørgen Leth (1937), Astrid Henning-Jensen (1914), August Blom (1869), Lone Scherfig (1959), and Niels Arden Oplev (1961).

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