FILM DIRECTOR

Claude Lelouch

1937 - Today

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Claude Barruck Joseph Lelouch (French: [klod ləluʃ]; born 30 October 1937) is a French film director, writer, cinematographer, actor and producer. Lelouch grew up in an Algerian Jewish family. He emerged as a prominent director in the 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Claude Lelouch has received more than 624,733 page views. His biography is available in 46 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). Claude Lelouch is the 125th most popular film director (up from 133rd in 2019), the 904th most popular biography from France (up from 921st in 2019) and the 17th most popular French Film Director.

Claude Lelouch is most famous for his 1969 film "Un homme et une femme" which won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

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  • 4.44

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Claude Lelouch ranks 125 out of 2,041. Before him are Sergei Bondarchuk, John Woo, Howard Hawks, Victor Fleming, Jiří Menzel, and Wes Craven. After him are René Clément, Michael Curtiz, Peter Weir, William Hanna, George A. Romero, and Nikita Mikhalkov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, Claude Lelouch ranks 42. Before him are Warren Beatty, Gennady Yanayev, Sajida Talfah, Avram Hershko, Philip Glass, and Juvénal Habyarimana. After him are Jacques Santer, Colleen McCullough, Vaira Vīķe-Freiberga, Angelo Badalamenti, Vladimir Ashkenazy, and Roger Zelazny.

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In France

Among people born in France, Claude Lelouch ranks 904 out of 6,770. Before him are Jean Giraud (1938), Paul Delaroche (1797), Louis-Jules Trochu (1815), John I of Aragon (1350), Edgar Morin (1921), and Jean-Claude Killy (1943). After him are Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle (1657), Joan the Lame (1293), René Clément (1913), Beatrice I, Countess of Burgundy (1143), Étienne Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire (1772), and Claude Chappe (1763).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Claude Lelouch ranks 17. Before him are Alain Resnais (1922), William Wyler (1902), Robert Bresson (1901), René Clair (1898), Marcel Carné (1906), and Jean-Pierre Melville (1917). After him are René Clément (1913), Jacques Demy (1931), Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907), Jean-Pierre Jeunet (1953), Alice Guy-Blaché (1873), and Louis Malle (1932).

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Filmography

A Man and a Woman
Director
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow.
May 27th 19667.3 / 10
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
Director
A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realise that he has ignored the important things in his life.
Nov 30th 19887.3 / 10
Un + une
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A successful film composer falls in love when he travels to India to work on a Bollywood retelling of Romeo and Juliet.
Dec 9th 20155.847 / 10