FILM DIRECTOR

Boris Sagal

1923 - 1981

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Boris Sagal (October 18, 1923 – May 22, 1981) was an American television and film director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Boris Sagal has received more than 1,402,499 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Boris Sagal is the 1,444th most popular film director (down from 1,235th in 2019), the 938th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 736th in 2019) and the 32nd most popular Ukrainian Film Director.

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  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.72

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  • 3.43

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Boris Sagal ranks 1,444 out of 2,041. Before him are Howard Zieff, Pablo Berger, Alfred Braun, Dan Gilroy, Egon Günther, and Lisa Cholodenko. After him are Jerzy Stefan Stawiński, Peter Lord, Raja Gosnell, Benno von Arent, Vincent Sherman, and Alexander Drankov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Boris Sagal ranks 438. Before him are Augusto Magli, Ted Stevens, Valeriya Gnarovskaya, Basil Hume, Noël Vandernotte, and Denise Levertov. After him are Alice von Hildebrand, Bonita Granville, Dannie Abse, Sam Rivers, Slim Whitman, and Bjørn Paulson. Among people deceased in 1981, Boris Sagal ranks 259. Before him are Clemente Yerovi, Louise Lorraine, Jan van Diepenbeek, Hanns Kilian, Betty McKinnon, and Zoltán Huszárik. After him are Adele Astaire, Alberto Héber Usher, Nikolai Tishchenko, Robert Russell Bennett, Eric Williams, and Margaret Lindsay.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Boris Sagal ranks 938 out of 1,365. Before him are Emmanuil Kazakevich (1913), Dimitrij Ovtcharov (1988), Andriy Sadovyi (1968), Yuliia Paievska (1968), Steven Geray (1904), and Oleksiy Honcharuk (1984). After him are Hennadiy Avdyeyenko (1963), Mikhail Tolstykh (1980), Mike Mazurki (1907), Alexander Almetov (1940), Raya Dunayevskaya (1910), and Svetlana Krachevskaya (1944).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Ukraine

Among film directors born in Ukraine, Boris Sagal ranks 32. Before him are Vadim Abdrashitov (1945), Volodymyr Dakhno (1932), Leonid Osyka (1940), Jerzy Antczak (1929), Aleksandr Alov (1923), and Lev Arnshtam (1905). After him are Vadim Perelman (1963), Felix Sobolev (1931), Nikolay Akimov (1901), Vera Stroyeva (1903), Valentyn Vasyanovych (1971), and Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi (1974).

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Filmography

The Twilight Zone
Director
A series of unrelated stories containing drama, psychological thriller, fantasy, science fiction, suspense, and/or horror, often concluding with a macabre or unexpected twist.
8.44 / 10
Columbo
Director
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
8.1 / 10
The Omega Man
Director
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons. Besides him, only a few hundred deformed, nocturnal people remain - sensitive to light, and homicidally psychotic.
Aug 1st 19716.1 / 10