FILM DIRECTOR

Chris Menges

1940 - Today

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Chris Menges BSC, ASC (born 15 September 1940) is a British cinematographer and film director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Chris Menges has received more than 158,294 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Chris Menges is the 564th most popular film director (up from 1,327th in 2019), the 2,083rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,617th in 2019) and the 40th most popular British Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 160k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 53.50

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.12

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Chris Menges ranks 564 out of 2,041. Before him are Grigori Kozintsev, David Byrne, King Hu, František Čáp, Thelma Schoonmaker, and Sergei Yutkevich. After him are Tonino Delli Colli, Georges Lautner, Anthony Asquith, Oliver Hirschbiegel, Franco Rossi, and Peter Stein.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Chris Menges ranks 211. Before him are Jana Brejchová, Anja Breien, Teruki Miyamoto, Zubaida Tharwat, Thelma Schoonmaker, and René Auberjonois. After him are Ali Nasir Muhammad, Berit Mørdre, Gigi Proietti, Marcelino Martínez, Franz Müntefering, and David Koch.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Chris Menges ranks 2,083 out of 8,785. Before him are Frank Finlay (1926), James Herriot (1916), Eleanor, Fair Maid of Brittany (1182), Rick Davies (1944), Princess Eugenie of York (1990), and Joan of the Tower (1321). After him are Thomas Andrews (1813), Robert Fortune (1812), Anthony Dawson (1916), Alan Lancaster (1949), George Herbert (1593), and John Webster (1578).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Chris Menges ranks 40. Before him are Peter Yates (1929), Ken Annakin (1914), Paul W. S. Anderson (1965), Hugh Hudson (1936), George Albert Smith (1864), and David Byrne (1952). After him are Anthony Asquith (1902), Lewis Gilbert (1920), Michael Powell (1905), Norman McLaren (1914), Nicolas Roeg (1928), and John Glen (1932).

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Filmography

The Reader
Director
The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as a concentration camp guard late in the war. He alone realizes that Hanna is illiterate and may be concealing that fact at the expense of her freedom.
Dec 10o 20087.472 / 10
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Director
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
Dec 25o 20116.976 / 10
Hummingbird
Director
Homeless and on the run from a military court martial, a damaged ex-special forces soldier navigating London's criminal underworld seizes an opportunity to assume another man's identity, transforming into an avenging angel in the process.
May 7o 20136.2 / 10