FILM DIRECTOR

Bille August

1948 - Today

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Bille August R. (born 9 November 1948) is a Danish director, screenwriter, and cinematographer of film and television. August's 1987 film Pelle the Conqueror won the Palme d'Or, Academy Award and Golden Globe Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bille August has received more than 452,360 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (down from 33 in 2019). Bille August is the 164th most popular film director (up from 170th in 2019), the 106th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 105th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Danish Film Director.

Bille August is most famous for being a Danish film director. He is known for directing the films Pelle the Conqueror, The House of the Spirits, and The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.

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  • 450k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 67.61

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 32

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.04

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.01

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Bille August ranks 164 out of 2,041. Before him are Jesús Franco, Peter Greenaway, Kim Ki-duk, Sergio Corbucci, Andrei Konchalovsky, and Josef von Sternberg. After him are Jan Švankmajer, Masaki Kobayashi, Joel Schumacher, Abel Gance, István Szabó, and Max Ophüls.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Bille August ranks 60. Before him are Ian Paice, Bernard-Henri Lévy, Pim Fortuyn, Rudolf Schenker, Rory Gallagher, and Carlos Filipe Ximenes Belo. After him are Claude Jade, Svetlana Savitskaya, Lluís Llach, Jerzy Kukuczka, William Gibson, and Edmund Kemper.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Bille August ranks 106 out of 1,032. Before him are Frederick, Hereditary Prince of Denmark (1753), N. F. S. Grundtvig (1783), Harald Bohr (1887), Princess Thyra of Denmark (1853), Jens Peter Jacobsen (1847), and Eric II of Denmark (1090). After him are Hans Christian Gram (1853), Brigitte Nielsen (1963), Sophia Brahe (1556), Sophia Magdalena of Denmark (1746), Nicolai Abildgaard (1743), and Ejnar Hertzsprung (1873).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Denmark

Among film directors born in Denmark, Bille August ranks 3. Before him are Lars von Trier (1956), and Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889). After him are Gabriel Axel (1918), Thomas Vinterberg (1969), Susanne Bier (1960), Henning Carlsen (1927), Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947), Erik Balling (1924), Urban Gad (1879), Benjamin Christensen (1879), and Nicolas Winding Refn (1970).

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