FILM DIRECTOR

Brian De Palma

1940 - Today

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Brian Russell De Palma ([de ˈpalma]; born September 11, 1940) is an American film director and screenwriter. With a career spanning over 50 years, he is best known for work in the suspense, crime and psychological thriller genres. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Brian De Palma has received more than 6,496,393 page views. His biography is available in 60 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 58 in 2019). Brian De Palma is the 57th most popular film director (down from 53rd in 2019), the 391st most popular biography from United States (up from 396th in 2019) and the 12th most popular American Film Director.

Brian de Palma is most famous for directing such films as Scarface, The Untouchables, Carrie, and The Black Dahlia.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.5M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 68.22

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 60

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.55

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.32

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Brian De Palma ranks 57 out of 2,041. Before him are Takeshi Kitano, Oliver Stone, Michael Haneke, Tony Scott, Luc Besson, and Paul Verhoeven. After him are Aki Kaurismäki, Werner Herzog, Abbas Kiarostami, Stephen Hillenburg, Jacques Tati, and Claude Chabrol.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Brian De Palma ranks 25. Before him are Muhammad Yunus, J. M. Coetzee, Carlos Slim, Joseph Brodsky, Michel Temer, and Saparmurat Niyazov. After him are Martin Sheen, Joachim Gauck, John Hurt, Pina Bausch, Peter Fonda, and Abbas Kiarostami.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Brian De Palma ranks 391 out of 20,380. Before him are Ryan O'Neal (1941), Dan Brown (1964), Ruth Handler (1916), Edward Drinker Cope (1840), Sylvia Plath (1932), and Kurt Cobain (1967). After him are Anthony Kiedis (1962), Martin Sheen (1940), Jimmy Wales (1966), Ben Roy Mottelson (1926), Joseph Henry (1797), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1947).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Brian De Palma ranks 12. Before him are George Lucas (1944), Quentin Tarantino (1963), Tim Burton (1958), John Ford (1894), David Lynch (1946), and Oliver Stone (1946). After him are Stephen Hillenburg (1961), Robert Zemeckis (1952), Chuck Jones (1912), Sydney Pollack (1934), Terry Gilliam (1940), and Jim Jarmusch (1953).

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Filmography

Scarface
Director
After getting a green card in exchange for assassinating a Cuban government official, Tony Montana stakes a claim on the drug trade in Miami. Viciously murdering anyone who stands in his way, Tony eventually becomes the biggest drug lord in the state, controlling nearly all the cocaine that comes through Miami. But increased pressure from the police, wars with Colombian drug cartels and his own drug-fueled paranoia serve to fuel the flames of his eventual downfall.
Dec 9o 19838.169 / 10
Mission: Impossible
Director
When Ethan Hunt, the leader of a crack espionage team whose perilous operation has gone awry with no explanation, discovers that a mole has penetrated the CIA, he's surprised to learn that he's the prime suspect. To clear his name, Hunt now must ferret out the real double agent and, in the process, even the score.
May 22o 19966.986 / 10
The Untouchables
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Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
Jun 3o 19877.771 / 10