FILM DIRECTOR

Benjamin Glazer

1887 - 1956

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Benjamin F. Glazer (May 7, 1887 – March 18, 1956) was a screenwriter, producer, Foley artist, and director of American films from the 1920s through the 1950s. He made the first translation of author / playwright Ferenc Molnár's play Liliom (1909) into English from its original Hungarian (Magyar) in 1921. His translation was used in the first American live stage play performance that year and later in the subsequent 1930 film version, and in every production in English of the play for the 115 years since its 1909 writing until recently. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Benjamin Glazer has received more than 54,054 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Benjamin Glazer is the 932nd most popular film director (up from 1,203rd in 2019), the 3,185th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,150th in 2019) and the 72nd most popular British Film Director.

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  • 49.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

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  • 6.58

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  • 2.04

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Page views of Benjamin Glazers by language

Over the past year Benjamin Glazer has had the most page views in the with 6,627 views, followed by Turkish (1,133), and German (999). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Egyptian Arabic (87.79%), Danish (58.55%), and Ukrainian (54.40%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Benjamin Glazer ranks 932 out of 2,041. Before him are Stephen Gyllenhaal, John Lee Hancock, Álex de la Iglesia, Oldřich Lipský, Ralph Nelson, and Anne Fontaine. After him are Luis Llosa, Yuri Ozerov, Yoshishige Yoshida, Ringo Lam, Gérard Corbiau, and Paul Morrissey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1887, Benjamin Glazer ranks 192. Before him are Oskar Luts, Waloddi Weibull, Rudolph Lewis, Harold Lockwood, Géza Csáth, and Julius Pokorny. After him are Igor Severyanin, Arcadio Larraona Saralegui, Jamini Roy, Hranush Arshagyan, Valentine Hugo, and Paul W. Merrill. Among people deceased in 1956, Benjamin Glazer ranks 142. Before him are Touria Chaoui, George Bancroft, Teresa Feoderovna Ries, Sergei Vasilenko, Jan Šrámek, and E. T. Whittaker. After him are Panagiotis Paraskevopoulos, David Seymour, Albert Kluyver, Flora Sandes, Preston Tucker, and Grigory Shajn.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Glazer ranks 3,185 out of 8,785. Before him are Anne Treisman (1935), Mary Toft (1703), Emily Mortimer (1971), Joe Abercrombie (1974), Joseph Grimaldi (1778), and Mike Parkes (1931). After him are Alicia Moreau de Justo (1885), Robert Greene (1558), Charles Shaughnessy (1955), John Pulman (1923), Humphrey Stafford, 1st Duke of Buckingham (1402), and Ethel Thomson Larcombe (1879).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Benjamin Glazer ranks 72. Before him are Michael Winner (1935), Jack Clayton (1921), Jonathan Nolan (1976), Martin McDonagh (1970), Anthony Harvey (1930), and Jack Cardiff (1914). After him are Peter R. Hunt (1925), Tony Kaye (1952), Nick Park (1958), Roy Ward Baker (1916), Mike Figgis (1948), and Barry Ackroyd (1954).

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Filmography

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A Farewell to Arms
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Dec 8o 19326.2 / 10
7th Heaven
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A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.
Sep 10o 19277.3 / 10