FILM DIRECTOR

Charles Vidor

1900 - 1959

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Charles Vidor (born Károly Vidor; July 27, 1900 – June 4, 1959) was a Hungarian film director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Charles Vidor has received more than 292,674 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Charles Vidor is the 719th most popular film director (down from 629th in 2019), the 377th most popular biography from Hungary (down from 327th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Hungarian Film Director.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 31

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.79

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Charles Vidor ranks 719 out of 2,041. Before him are Dante Ferretti, J. Stuart Blackton, Yasuzo Masumura, Paul Grimault, Steno, and Tatyana Lioznova. After him are Otakar Vávra, Corey Yuen, Maurice Tourneur, Jack Arnold, Emile Ardolino, and Clyde Geronimi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1900, Charles Vidor ranks 170. Before him are Madeleine Renaud, Lee Beom-seok, Juan d'Arienzo, Gilberto Freyre, Clyde Tolson, and Pavel Kurochkin. After him are Walther Kadow, Karl Kaufmann, Mikhail Isakovsky, Dumarsais Estimé, Paul Kletzki, and Kateryna Bilokur. Among people deceased in 1959, Charles Vidor ranks 97. Before him are Phetsarath Ratanavongsa, Oskar Vogt, Princess Alexandra, 2nd Duchess of Fife, Kafū Nagai, Ion Gigurtu, and Aleksandr Khinchin. After him are Kazimierz Bein, Edmund Gwenn, Erhard Schmidt, Galaktion Tabidze, Alfonso Reyes, and Ernst Fast.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Charles Vidor ranks 377 out of 1,077. Before him are Kálmán Mészöly (1941), Árpád Weisz (1896), István Kertész (1929), Eva Klein (1925), Pál Losonczi (1919), and Imre Makovecz (1935). After him are Cornell Capa (1918), László Cseh (1910), Antal Szalay (1912), Zsigmond Móricz (1879), Zoltán Kocsis (1952), and Iván Fischer (1951).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Hungary

Among film directors born in Hungary, Charles Vidor ranks 12. Before him are Adolph Zukor (1873), Ladislao Vajda (1906), László Benedek (1905), Ildikó Enyedi (1955), Zoltán Fábri (1917), and Ján Kadár (1918). After him are Alexandre Trauner (1906), Andrew Marton (1904), George Pal (1908), Emeric Pressburger (1902), Andre DeToth (1913), and Ágnes Hranitzky (1945).

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Filmography

Gilda
Director
A gambler discovers an old flame while in Argentina, but she's married to his new boss.
Apr 25th 19467.5 / 10
The Joker is Wild
Director
A Prohibition-era nightclub crooner has his career is cut short when his throat is slashed by a mob boss.
Sep 26th 19578.1 / 10
Cover Girl
Director
A nightclub dancer makes it big in modeling, leaving her dancer boyfriend behind.
Mar 22nd 19446.4 / 10