1930 - 2010
Claude Henri Jean Chabrol (French: [klod ʃabʁɔl]; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker. Chabrol's career began with Le Beau Serge (1958), inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Chabrol has received more than 686,603 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Claude Chabrol is the 64th most popular film director (down from 58th in 2019), the 523rd most popular biography from France (down from 493rd in 2019) and the 9th most popular French Film Director.
Claude Chabrol is most famous for his films such as "The Wages of Fear" and "Le Beau Serge."
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Among film directors, Claude Chabrol ranks 64 out of 1,581. Before him are Isao Takahata, Robert Zemeckis, Oliver Stone, Stephen Hillenburg, Yasujirō Ozu, and Agnès Varda. After him are Richard Attenborough, Terry Gilliam, Luc Besson, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Franco Zeffirelli, and David Cronenberg.
1935 - 2018
HPI: 67.61
Rank: 58
1952 - Present
HPI: 67.56
Rank: 59
1946 - Present
HPI: 67.55
Rank: 60
1961 - 2018
HPI: 67.48
Rank: 61
1903 - 1963
HPI: 67.32
Rank: 62
1928 - 2019
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 63
1930 - 2010
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 64
1923 - 2014
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 65
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 66
1959 - Present
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 67
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 68
1923 - 2019
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 69
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 70
Among people born in 1930, Claude Chabrol ranks 28. Before him are Richard Harris, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pete Conrad, Philippe Noiret, Maximilian Schell, and Ion Iliescu. After him are Niki de Saint Phalle, Tu Youyou, Harold Pinter, Immanuel Wallerstein, Gary Becker, and Bernie Ecclestone. Among people deceased in 2010, Claude Chabrol ranks 12. Before him are Lech Kaczyński, Gloria Stuart, Éric Rohmer, Benoit Mandelbrot, Zecharia Sitchin, and Juan Antonio Samaranch. After him are Dennis Hopper, Bobby Farrell, Marshall Warren Nirenberg, Gennady Yanayev, Ali Hassan al-Majid, and Tsutomu Yamaguchi.
1930 - 2002
HPI: 68.74
Rank: 22
1930 - 2022
HPI: 68.73
Rank: 23
1930 - 1999
HPI: 68.70
Rank: 24
1930 - 2006
HPI: 68.61
Rank: 25
1930 - 2014
HPI: 68.01
Rank: 26
1930 - Present
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 27
1930 - 2010
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 28
1930 - 2002
HPI: 67.04
Rank: 29
1930 - Present
HPI: 66.97
Rank: 30
1930 - 2008
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 31
1930 - 2019
HPI: 66.40
Rank: 32
1930 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 33
1930 - Present
HPI: 65.71
Rank: 34
1949 - 2010
HPI: 70.32
Rank: 6
1910 - 2010
HPI: 69.44
Rank: 7
1920 - 2010
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 8
1924 - 2010
HPI: 67.78
Rank: 9
1920 - 2010
HPI: 67.59
Rank: 10
1920 - 2010
HPI: 67.53
Rank: 11
1930 - 2010
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 12
1936 - 2010
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 13
1949 - 2010
HPI: 66.84
Rank: 14
1927 - 2010
HPI: 65.31
Rank: 15
1937 - 2010
HPI: 65.20
Rank: 16
1941 - 2010
HPI: 64.97
Rank: 17
1916 - 2010
HPI: 64.73
Rank: 18
Among people born in France, Claude Chabrol ranks 523 out of 6,011. Before him are Joseph Joffre (1852), Marcel Mauss (1872), Pauline Bonaparte (1780), Maurice Utrillo (1883), Luigi Lucheni (1873), and Isabelle Huppert (1953). After him are Chilperic I (539), Frédéric Bazille (1841), Ève Curie (1904), Auguste de Marmont (1774), Jean-Léon Gérôme (1824), and Augustin-Jean Fresnel (1788).
1852 - 1931
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 517
1872 - 1950
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 518
1780 - 1825
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 519
1883 - 1955
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 520
1873 - 1910
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 521
1953 - Present
HPI: 67.29
Rank: 522
1930 - 2010
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 523
539 - 584
HPI: 67.24
Rank: 524
1841 - 1870
HPI: 67.23
Rank: 525
1904 - 2007
HPI: 67.22
Rank: 526
1774 - 1852
HPI: 67.19
Rank: 527
1824 - 1904
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 528
1788 - 1827
HPI: 67.18
Rank: 529
Among film directors born in France, Claude Chabrol ranks 9. Before him are François Truffaut (1932), Georges Méliès (1861), Éric Rohmer (1920), Jacques Tati (1907), William Wyler (1902), and Roger Vadim (1928). After him are Luc Besson (1959), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Robert Bresson (1901), Alain Resnais (1922), René Clair (1898), and Jean-Pierre Melville (1917).
1932 - 1984
HPI: 73.66
Rank: 3
1861 - 1938
HPI: 73.44
Rank: 4
1920 - 2010
HPI: 68.48
Rank: 5
1907 - 1982
HPI: 68.31
Rank: 6
1902 - 1981
HPI: 68.09
Rank: 7
1928 - 2000
HPI: 68.04
Rank: 8
1930 - 2010
HPI: 67.26
Rank: 9
1959 - Present
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 10
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 11
1901 - 1999
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 12
1922 - 2014
HPI: 65.73
Rank: 13
1898 - 1981
HPI: 65.51
Rank: 14
1917 - 1973
HPI: 64.56
Rank: 15