FILM DIRECTOR

Clarence Brown

1890 - 1987

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Clarence Leon Brown (May 10, 1890 – August 17, 1987) was an American film director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clarence Brown has received more than 269,277 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2019). Clarence Brown is the 513th most popular film director (down from 453rd in 2019), the 3,248th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,914th in 2019) and the 132nd most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 270k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 60.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.18

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.35

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Clarence Brown ranks 513 out of 2,041. Before him are John Milius, Alessandro Blasetti, Lee Chang-dong, Richard Boleslawski, Ted Kotcheff, and Sam Wood. After him are Fernando Solanas, Boris Barnet, Mike Leigh, Néstor Almendros, James Wong, and Luis García Berlanga.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Clarence Brown ranks 104. Before him are Mustafa Shokay, Louis Delluc, Evert Taube, Erwin Jaenecke, Emilio Portes Gil, and Jelly Roll Morton. After him are Adolf Wagner, Harold Bride, Princess Tatiana Constantinovna of Russia, Jean Rhys, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, and Adolphe Menjou. Among people deceased in 1987, Clarence Brown ranks 101. Before him are Mary Astor, R. Budd Dwyer, Claudio Villa, Will Sampson, Alessandro Blasetti, and Bertrand de Jouvenel. After him are Edgar P. Jacobs, Hermann Lang, Donn F. Eisele, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Bengt Strömgren, and Stanisław Szukalski.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Clarence Brown ranks 3,248 out of 20,380. Before him are Garret Hobart (1844), Lee Krasner (1908), Barry Goldwater (1909), Nancy Roman (1925), Gall (1840), and Charles Grodin (1935). After him are L. Sprague de Camp (1907), Rebbie Jackson (1950), Benjamin Spock (1903), Nathan Homer Knorr (1905), David Ausubel (1918), and Dan Hedaya (1940).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Clarence Brown ranks 132. Before him are John Waters (1946), Curtis Hanson (1945), Richard Thorpe (1896), Abel Ferrara (1951), John Milius (1944), and Sam Wood (1883). After him are Jennifer Lee (1971), Philip Kaufman (1936), Kenneth Anger (1927), Martin Ritt (1914), Gore Verbinski (1964), and David O. Russell (1958).

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