FILM DIRECTOR

Colin Higgins

1941 - 1988

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Colin Higgins (28 July 1941 – 5 August 1988) was an Australian-American screenwriter, actor, director, and producer. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Colin Higgins has received more than 325,328 page views. Her biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Colin Higgins is the 1,240th most popular film director (down from 1,181st in 2019), the 3rd most popular biography from New Caledonia (up from 4th in 2019) and the most popular Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 330k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 45.94

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.88

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.41

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Colin Higgins ranks 1,240 out of 2,041. Before her are Naomi Kawase, Shunji Iwai, Jiří Weiss, Sam Simon, Abram Room, and Antonio Mercero. After her are Lorenza Mazzetti, Sergey Urusevsky, Cédric Klapisch, Shinichirō Watanabe, José Luis Cuerda, and Mario Mattoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Colin Higgins ranks 489. Before her are Sean Flynn, Nils Arne Eggen, Ulf Sterner, Paddy Ashdown, Ray Thomas, and Viktor Putyatin. After her are Aaron Neville, Liese Prokop, Graciela Borges, Hans-Georg Reimann, Laisenia Qarase, and Barbara Ehrenreich. Among people deceased in 1988, Colin Higgins ranks 214. Before her are Lazarus Salii, Duane Jones, Roger Hargreaves, Teóphilo Bettencourt Pereira, Lyman Lemnitzer, and Hermann Volk. After her are Roy Kinnear, John Loder, Gerd Hornberger, Ella Raines, Lin Carter, and Axel Grönberg.

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In New Caledonia

Among people born in New Caledonia, Colin Higgins ranks 3 out of 8. Before her are Christian Karembeu (1970), and Antoine Kombouaré (1963). After her are Francis Carco (1886), Jacques Zimako (1951), Frédéric Piquionne (1978), Bertrand Kaï (1983), Georges Gope-Fenepej (1988), Bassa Mawem (1984), Maxime Grousset (1999), and Lara Grangeon (1991).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In New Caledonia

Among film directors born in New Caledonia, Colin Higgins ranks 1. 

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Filmography

Harold and Maude
Director
The young Harold lives in his own world of suicide-attempts and funeral visits to avoid the misery of his current family and home environment. Harold meets an 80-year-old woman named Maude who also lives in her own world yet one in which she is having the time of her life. When the two opposites meet they realize that their differences don’t matter and they become best friends and love each other.
Dec 20o 19717.6 / 10
Nine to Five
Director
Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage of the women who work with him in the grossest manner. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house, they assume control of his department, and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?
Dec 18o 19806.896 / 10
Silver Streak
Director
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
Dec 3o 19766.7 / 10