FILM DIRECTOR

F. W. Murnau

1888 - 1931

Photo of F. W. Murnau

Icon of person F. W. Murnau

Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau (born Friedrich Wilhelm Plumpe; December 28, 1888 – March 11, 1931) was a German film director, producer and screenwriter. He was greatly influenced by Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Shakespeare and Ibsen plays he had seen at the age of 12, and became a friend of director Max Reinhardt. During World War I he served in the Imperial German Army, initially as an infantry company commander on the Eastern Front. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of F. W. Murnau has received more than 824,383 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 Film Director.

F. W. Murnau is most famous for his 1922 film Nosferatu, which is an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula.

Memorability Metrics

  • 820k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 66.65

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 45

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.13

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of F. W. Murnaus by language


Among FILM DIRECTORS

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.

Most Popular Film Directors in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

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.

Others Born in 1888

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1931

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Germany

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).

Others born in Germany

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

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).

born Film Directors

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Filmography

  • Datawheel