1888 - 1931
Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He is regarded as one of cinema's most influential filmmakers for his work in the silent era. An erudite child with an early interest in film, Murnau eventually studied philology and art before director Max Reinhardt recruited him to his acting school. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of F. W. Murnau has received more than 1,052,898 page views. His biography is available in 45 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 44 in 2019). F. W. Murnau is the 72nd most popular film director (down from 69th in 2019), the 444th most popular biography from Germany (down from 422nd in 2019) and the 6th most popular German Film Director.
F. W. Murnau is most famous for his 1922 film Nosferatu, which is an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.
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Among film directors, F. W. Murnau ranks 72 out of 1,581. Before him are Terry Gilliam, Luc Besson, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Franco Zeffirelli, David Cronenberg, and Chuck Jones. After him are Frank Capra, John Huston, Costa-Gavras, Robert Bresson, Dziga Vertov, and Ernst Lubitsch.
1940 - Present
HPI: 67.12
Rank: 66
1959 - Present
HPI: 66.93
Rank: 67
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 68
1923 - 2019
HPI: 66.79
Rank: 69
1943 - Present
HPI: 66.73
Rank: 70
1912 - 2002
HPI: 66.66
Rank: 71
1888 - 1931
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 72
1897 - 1991
HPI: 66.58
Rank: 73
1906 - 1987
HPI: 66.51
Rank: 74
1933 - Present
HPI: 66.45
Rank: 75
1901 - 1999
HPI: 66.43
Rank: 76
1896 - 1954
HPI: 66.37
Rank: 77
1892 - 1947
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 78
Among people born in 1888, F. W. Murnau ranks 22. Before him are Friedrich Fromm, Shmuel Yosef Agnon, Friedrich Olbricht, C. V. Raman, Johannes Itten, and Roland Garros. After him are Frans Eemil Sillanpää, Alexander Friedmann, Herbert Spencer Gasser, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O'Neill, and Gerrit Rietveld. Among people deceased in 1931, F. W. Murnau ranks 17. Before him are Erik Axel Karlfeldt, George Herbert Mead, Hussein bin Ali, Sharif of Mecca, Theo van Doesburg, Joseph Joffre, and Carl Nielsen. After him are Bhagat Singh, Hermann Müller, Peter Kürten, Eugène Ysaÿe, Carin Göring, and Akseli Gallen-Kallela.
1888 - 1945
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 16
1888 - 1970
HPI: 68.06
Rank: 17
1888 - 1944
HPI: 68.00
Rank: 18
1888 - 1970
HPI: 67.89
Rank: 19
1888 - 1967
HPI: 67.08
Rank: 20
1888 - 1918
HPI: 67.03
Rank: 21
1888 - 1931
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 22
1888 - 1964
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 23
1888 - 1925
HPI: 66.09
Rank: 24
1888 - 1963
HPI: 66.01
Rank: 25
1888 - 1965
HPI: 65.97
Rank: 26
1888 - 1953
HPI: 65.84
Rank: 27
1888 - 1964
HPI: 65.77
Rank: 28
1864 - 1931
HPI: 68.68
Rank: 11
1863 - 1931
HPI: 68.25
Rank: 12
1853 - 1931
HPI: 67.97
Rank: 13
1883 - 1931
HPI: 67.52
Rank: 14
1852 - 1931
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 15
1865 - 1931
HPI: 66.82
Rank: 16
1888 - 1931
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 17
1907 - 1931
HPI: 65.29
Rank: 18
1876 - 1931
HPI: 63.54
Rank: 19
1883 - 1931
HPI: 63.33
Rank: 20
1858 - 1931
HPI: 62.76
Rank: 21
1888 - 1931
HPI: 62.61
Rank: 22
1865 - 1931
HPI: 62.60
Rank: 23
Among people born in Germany, F. W. Murnau ranks 444 out of 6,142. Before him are Frederick Augustus I of Saxony (1750), Hans Fischer (1881), Frederick III, Elector of Saxony (1463), Walther von Reichenau (1884), Bernhard von Bülow (1849), and Felix Klein (1849). After him are Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria (1662), Niklas Luhmann (1927), Jochen Rindt (1942), Wilhelm List (1880), Josef Kramer (1906), and Wilhelm Burgdorf (1895).
1750 - 1827
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 438
1881 - 1945
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 439
1463 - 1525
HPI: 66.72
Rank: 440
1884 - 1942
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 441
1849 - 1929
HPI: 66.71
Rank: 442
1849 - 1925
HPI: 66.68
Rank: 443
1888 - 1931
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 444
1662 - 1726
HPI: 66.61
Rank: 445
1927 - 1998
HPI: 66.59
Rank: 446
1942 - 1970
HPI: 66.55
Rank: 447
1880 - 1971
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 448
1906 - 1945
HPI: 66.54
Rank: 449
1895 - 1945
HPI: 66.53
Rank: 450
Among film directors born in Germany, F. W. Murnau ranks 6. Before him are Leni Riefenstahl (1902), Wim Wenders (1945), Michael Haneke (1942), Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945), and Werner Herzog (1942). After him are Ernst Lubitsch (1892), Wolfgang Petersen (1941), Roland Emmerich (1955), Volker Schlöndorff (1939), Max Ophüls (1902), and Robert Siodmak (1900).
1902 - 2003
HPI: 73.43
Rank: 1
1945 - Present
HPI: 69.72
Rank: 2
1942 - Present
HPI: 69.47
Rank: 3
1945 - 1982
HPI: 68.76
Rank: 4
1942 - Present
HPI: 67.93
Rank: 5
1888 - 1931
HPI: 66.65
Rank: 6
1892 - 1947
HPI: 66.18
Rank: 7
1941 - 2022
HPI: 65.21
Rank: 8
1955 - Present
HPI: 61.92
Rank: 9
1939 - Present
HPI: 61.74
Rank: 10
1902 - 1957
HPI: 60.30
Rank: 11
1900 - 1973
HPI: 60.02
Rank: 12