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FILM DIRECTOR

Douglas Sirk

1897 - 1987

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Douglas Sirk (born Hans Detlef Sierck; 26 April 1897 – 14 January 1987) was a German film director best known for his work in Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s. However, he also directed comedies, westerns, and war films. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Douglas Sirk has received more than 694,693 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 27 in 2019). Douglas Sirk is the 224th most popular film director (up from 253rd in 2019), the 1,222nd most popular biography from Germany (up from 1,385th in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Film Director.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

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    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Douglas Sirk ranks 224 out of 1,581. Before him are Robert J. Flaherty, Spike Lee, Gus Van Sant, Joseph Losey, Anatole Litvak, and Terence Young. After him are George Stevens, Frank Darabont, Miklós Jancsó, Richard Fleischer, Margarethe von Trotta, and Barbet Schroeder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1897, Douglas Sirk ranks 60. Before him are Virginia Henderson, Humberto de Alencar Castelo Branco, Ye Jianying, Ronald George Wreyford Norrish, Hans Baur, and Zakir Husain. After him are Vito Genovese, Theodor Busse, Marcel Petiot, Winifred Wagner, Karl Löwith, and Elijah Muhammad. Among people deceased in 1987, Douglas Sirk ranks 36. Before him are Jaco Pastorius, Georg Wittig, Erskine Caldwell, André Masson, Anthony de Mello, and Henry Ford II. After him are Didier Pironi, Peter Tosh, Peter Medawar, Mahadevi Varma, James Baldwin, and Randolph Scott.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Douglas Sirk ranks 1,222 out of 6,142. Before him are Carl Clauberg (1898), Méret Oppenheim (1913), Veit Stoss (1450), Severinus of Noricum (410), Leo Strauss (1899), and Heinrich Lehmann-Willenbrock (1911). After him are Fabian von Schlabrendorff (1907), Otto II, Duke of Bavaria (1206), Dieter Rams (1932), Manuel Neuer (1986), Erich Heckel (1883), and Johann II, Duke of Saxe-Weimar (1570).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Douglas Sirk ranks 14. Before him are Wolfgang Petersen (1941), Roland Emmerich (1955), Volker Schlöndorff (1939), Max Ophüls (1902), Robert Siodmak (1900), and Thea von Harbou (1888). After him are Margarethe von Trotta (1942), Mike Nichols (1931), Veit Harlan (1899), Lotte Reiniger (1899), Gustaf Gründgens (1899), and Wolfgang Reitherman (1909).

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Filmography

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