FILM DIRECTOR

Errol Morris

1948 - Today

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Errol Mark Morris (born February 5, 1948) is an American film director known for documentaries that interrogate the epistemology of their subjects, and the invention of the Interrotron. In 2003, his The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons from the Life of Robert S. McNamara won the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. His film The Thin Blue Line placed fifth on a Sight & Sound poll of the greatest documentaries ever made. Morris is known for making films about unusual subjects; Fast, Cheap & Out of Control interweaves the stories of an animal trainer, a topiary gardener, a robot scientist, and a naked mole-rat specialist. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Errol Morris is the 1,709th most popular film director (up from 1,726th in 2024), the 13,223rd most popular biography from United States (up from 13,273rd in 2019) and the 495th most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Errol Morris ranks 1,709 out of 2,041. Before him are Nimród Antal, Axel Braun, Rupert Sanders, Malik Bendjelloul, Mani Ratnam, and Yasuhiro Takemoto. After him are Hal Hartley, Claudia Llosa, Ken Hughes, Dan Laustsen, Ramanand Sagar, and Rory Kennedy.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1948, Errol Morris ranks 735. Before him are Elliott Abrams, Slavko Obadov, Lillian Board, Neil Warnock, Tino Insana, and Jeff Baxter. After him are Jacky Duguépéroux, Calvin Murphy, Csaba Hegedűs, Oleg Dolmatov, David Davis, and Byron K. Lichtenberg.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Errol Morris ranks 13,227 out of 20,380. Before him are Evan Seinfeld (1967), Lillian Russell (1860), Anna Camp (1982), Hailee Steinfeld (1996), Diane Williams (1960), and Mary MacLaren (1900). After him are Robert S. Duncanson (1821), Hal Hartley (1959), William Few (1748), Steve Antin (1958), Elvin Bishop (1942), and Ernie Sabella (1949).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Errol Morris ranks 495. Before him are Jeff Nathanson (1965), Robert Riskin (1897), William Beaudine (1892), James Frawley (1936), Jeffrey Lieber (1969), and Nimród Antal (1973). After him are Hal Hartley (1959), Rory Kennedy (1968), Don Mancini (1963), Brenda Chapman (1962), Lowell Thomas (1892), and Joseph Pevney (1911).

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