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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 130,920 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Benjamin Christensen is the 713th most popular film director (up from 781st in 2019), the 349th most popular biography from Denmark (up from 367th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Danish Film Director.

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  • 50.17

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 20

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  • 5.11

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Benjamin Christensen ranks 713 out of 1,581. Before him are Jan Němec, Richard Linklater, Maurice Tourneur, William Cameron Menzies, Raoul Peck, and Andrey Zvyagintsev. After him are Matt Reeves, Baz Luhrmann, Sergei Gerasimov, Baltasar Kormákur, Phillip Noyce, and Sion Sono.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Benjamin Christensen ranks 127. Before him are Leonid Mandelstam, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Ion G. Duca, Albert Taillandier, Pavel Bazhov, and Zsigmond Móricz. After him are Nancy Astor, Viscountess Astor, Grace Coolidge, Helena Roerich, Ernst Herzfeld, Ignatius Gabriel I Tappouni, and Petros Persakis. Among people deceased in 1959, Benjamin Christensen ranks 96. Before him are Bernard Berenson, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, Phetsarath Ratanavongsa, Ragnar Nurkse, Ernst Fast, and Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside. After him are Carlos Viegas Gago Coutinho, Alfonso Reyes, Ion Gigurtu, Galaktion Tabidze, Kazimierz Bein, and Irving Cummings.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Benjamin Christensen ranks 349 out of 893. Before him are Christen Sørensen Longomontanus (1562), Nicolas Winding Refn (1970), Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel (1573), Hans Hedtoft (1903), Cecil Bødker (1927), and Simon Kjær (1989). After him are Erik Balling (1924), Mikkel Hansen (1987), Thomas Kingo (1634), Christina of Denmark, Queen of Sweden (1120), Martin Braithwaite (1991), and Richard Martin West (1941).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Denmark

Among film directors born in Denmark, Benjamin Christensen ranks 9. Before him are Bille August (1948), Gabriel Axel (1918), Thomas Vinterberg (1969), Susanne Bier (1960), Henning Carlsen (1927), and Nicolas Winding Refn (1970). After him are Erik Balling (1924), Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947), Jørgen Leth (1937), August Blom (1869), Urban Gad (1879), and Lone Scherfig (1959).

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Filmography

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