FILM DIRECTOR

Clive Donner

1926 - 2010

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Clive Stanley Donner (21 January 1926 – 6 September 2010) was a British film director who was part of the British New Wave, directing films such as The Caretaker, Nothing but the Best, What's New Pussycat?, and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Clive Donner has received more than 179,141 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Clive Donner is the 1,427th most popular film director (down from 1,355th in 2019), the 4,897th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 4,736th in 2019) and the 108th most popular British Film Director.

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  • 17

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  • 2.92

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  • 2.96

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Clive Donner ranks 1,427 out of 2,041. Before him are Tarsem Singh, László Nemes, Pavel Chukhray, Jun'ichi Kōuchi, Cristi Puiu, and Irving Rapper. After him are Patty Jenkins, Edvin Laine, Gábor Csupó, Jay Roach, Zhang Shichuan, and Robert Schwentke.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Clive Donner ranks 466. Before him are Zakaria Chihab, Thomas Starzl, Piero Drogo, Jimmy Heath, Anatoly Logunov, and Maria Janion. After him are Stig Sollander, Johannes Joachim Degenhardt, Milo O'Shea, Dionizije Dvornić, Zygmunt Chychła, and George Ariyoshi. Among people deceased in 2010, Clive Donner ranks 383. Before him are Gheorghe Fiat, Joseph Serge Miot, Jean Boiteux, Eduard Novák, Antoinette Meyer, and Susanna Amatuni. After him are Bobby Smith, Ravindra Kelekar, Gianni Bonichon, Franco Ballerini, Ted Stevens, and Kazimierz Paździor.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Clive Donner ranks 4,897 out of 8,785. Before him are Ralph Ineson (1969), Sarah Trimmer (1741), Lily Allen (1985), Jenny Beavan (1950), Henry Robertson Bowers (1883), and Irving Rapper (1898). After him are Anne Fine (1947), Bobby Smith (1933), William Beechey (1753), Dorothy Round (1909), Mike Ratledge (1943), and Hannah Waddingham (1974).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Clive Donner ranks 108. Before him are A. Edward Sutherland (1895), Geoffrey Unsworth (1914), Basil Dearden (1911), Michael Winterbottom (1961), Stuart Baird (1947), and Irving Rapper (1898). After him are Peter Lord (1953), Val Guest (1911), Peter Glenville (1913), Adrian Biddle (1952), Gareth Edwards (1975), and Phyllida Lloyd (1957).

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Filmography

A Christmas Carol
Director
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Oct 9o 19847.4 / 10
What's New Pussycat?
Director
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Jun 22o 19656 / 10
Babes in Toyland
Director
11-year-old Lisa has no time for toys; she's too busy taking care of her siblings and cooking for her mother. During the Christmas Eve blizzard, Lisa travels to Toyland in Wizard of Oz-like fashion and arrives just in time for a wedding. Young Mary Contrary is about to marry mean, old Barnaby Barnacle, despite the fact that she loves Jack Be Nimble. Lisa tries to stop this terrible wedding and, together with her new friends, discovers that Barnaby wants to take over Toyland. Lisa, Mary, Jack, and Georgie Porgie ask the Toymaster for help, but he can't help them as long as Lisa doesn't truly believe in toys.
Dec 19o 19865.6 / 10