FILM DIRECTOR

Edward Dmytryk

1908 - 1999

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Edward Dmytryk (September 4, 1908 – July 1, 1999) was a Canadian-born American film director and editor. He was known for his 1940s noir films and received an Oscar nomination for Best Director for Crossfire (1947). In 1947, he was named as one of the Hollywood Ten, a group of blacklisted film industry professionals who refused to testify to the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) in their investigations during the Red Scare of the McCarthy era. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Edward Dmytryk has received more than 605,777 page views. His biography is available in 31 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Edward Dmytryk is the 251st most popular film director (down from 250th in 2019), the 71st most popular biography from Canada (down from 69th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Canadian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Edward Dmytryk ranks 251 out of 2,041. Before him are John Sturges, Lucio Fulci, Karel Zeman, G. W. Pabst, Hirokazu Kore-eda, and Tsui Hark. After him are Patrice Chéreau, Frank Darabont, Assi Dayan, Julien Duvivier, Peter Bogdanovich, and Richard Fleischer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Edward Dmytryk ranks 69. Before him are Carlos Arias Navarro, Willard Van Orman Quine, Lionel Stander, Henri, Count of Paris, Don Ameche, and Maria Prymachenko. After him are André Martinet, Alain Cuny, Tex Avery, Pablo Dorado, Saizo Saito, and Bernard Lee. Among people deceased in 1999, Edward Dmytryk ranks 48. Before him are Joe D'Amato, Isa bin Salman Al Khalifa, Hermine Braunsteiner, Henri, Count of Paris, George C. Scott, and Fabrizio De André. After him are André Martinet, Benjamin Bloom, Barış Manço, João Figueiredo, Alfredo Kraus, and Charlotte Perriand.

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In Canada

Among people born in Canada, Edward Dmytryk ranks 71 out of 1,622. Before him are A. E. van Vogt (1912), Elizabeth Arden (1878), Mike Myers (1963), Glenn Ford (1916), Joe Weider (1919), and Charles Taylor (1931). After him are Ryan Reynolds (1976), Catherine O'Hara (1954), Jason Priestley (1969), David H. Hubel (1926), Conrad Bain (1923), and Carrie-Anne Moss (1967).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Canada

Among film directors born in Canada, Edward Dmytryk ranks 4. Before him are James Cameron (1954), David Cronenberg (1943), and Norman Jewison (1926). After him are Denis Villeneuve (1967), Jack L. Warner (1892), Arthur Hiller (1923), Ted Kotcheff (1931), Denys Arcand (1941), Roger Spottiswoode (1945), Allan Dwan (1885), and Mark Robson (1913).

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