FILM DIRECTOR

Erik Balling

1924 - 2005

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Erik Balling (29 November 1924 – 19 November 2005) was a Danish TV and film director. He created two of Denmark's most popular TV-series, Matador and Huset på Christianshavn. His feature film Qivitoq (1956) was nominated for a Golden Palm at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival, and for an Oscar as Best Foreign Language Film. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Erik Balling has received more than 58,534 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Erik Balling is the 754th most popular film director (down from 719th in 2019), the 370th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 348th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Danish Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Erik Balling ranks 754 out of 2,041Before him are Rajko Grlić, Allan Dwan, Henry Selick, Andrew Marton, Mrinal Sen, and Ivan Passer. After him are Paul Scheuring, Stephen Daldry, Terence Fisher, Ritwik Ghatak, Roman Karmen, and Vojtěch Jasný.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Erik Balling ranks 245Before him are Karen Harup, Dodo Abashidze, György Lázár, Luděk Pachman, Azucena Villaflor, and Jean-Michel Charlier. After him are Friederike Mayröcker, Gloria Vanderbilt, Jimmy Gardner, Qiao Shi, Janet Frame, and Sonny Stitt. Among people deceased in 2005, Erik Balling ranks 166Before him are Françoise d'Eaubonne, Juan José Saer, Vizma Belševica, Jesús Rafael Soto, John Spencer, and Mustai Karim. After him are Johnny Haynes, Frank Gorshin, Netti Witziers-Timmer, Jacques Dufilho, Yevgeny Grishin, and Attilâ İlhan.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Erik Balling ranks 370 out of 1,032Before him are Karen Harup (1924), Hilmar Baunsgaard (1920), Philip, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg (1584), Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1791), Prince Aage, Count of Rosenborg (1887), and Gitte Hænning (1946). After him are Peter Andreas Heiberg (1758), Elizabeth of Denmark, Duchess of Mecklenburg (1524), Princess Juliane Sophie of Denmark (1788), Lise Nørgaard (1917), Jacob Brønnum Scavenius Estrup (1825), and Christian August Lorentzen (1749).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Denmark

Among film directors born in Denmark, Erik Balling ranks 9Before him are Bille August (1948), Gabriel Axel (1918), Thomas Vinterberg (1969), Susanne Bier (1960), Henning Carlsen (1927), and Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947). After him are Urban Gad (1879), Benjamin Christensen (1879), Nicolas Winding Refn (1970), Jørgen Leth (1937), Astrid Henning-Jensen (1914), and August Blom (1869).