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FILM DIRECTOR

Franco Zeffirelli

1923 - 2019

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Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019) was an Italian stage and film director, producer, production designer and politician. He was one of the most significant opera and theatre directors of the post–World War II era, gaining both acclaim and notoriety for his lavish stagings of classical works, as well as his film adaptations of the same. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franco Zeffirelli has received more than 1,845,747 page views. His biography is available in 52 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 50 in 2019). Franco Zeffirelli is the 69th most popular film director (down from 55th in 2019), the 590th most popular biography from Italy (down from 510th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Italian Film Director.

Franco Zeffirelli is most famous for his work on Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, and La Traviata.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 69 out of 1,581Before him are Agnès Varda, Claude Chabrol, Richard Attenborough, Terry Gilliam, Luc Besson, and Jean-Jacques Annaud. After him are David Cronenberg, Chuck Jones, F. W. Murnau, Frank Capra, John Huston, and Costa-Gavras.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 19Before him are Wojciech Jaruzelski, Italo Calvino, Peter II of Yugoslavia, Carroll Shelby, György Ligeti, and Richard Attenborough. After him are Alan Shepard, Mas Oyama, Nadine Gordimer, Roy Lichtenstein, Yma Sumac, and Jack Kilby. Among people deceased in 2019, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 15Before him are Robert Forster, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Mohamed Morsi, Agnès Varda, Alexei Leonov, and Anna Karina. After him are Karel Gott, Jeffrey Epstein, I. M. Pei, Immanuel Wallerstein, Kary Mullis, and Marie Fredriksson.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 590 out of 4,668Before him are Giuliano de' Medici, Duke of Nemours (1479), Lucullus (-118), Umberto Nobile (1885), Grazia Deledda (1871), Kurt Schuschnigg (1897), and Pope Silverius (490). After him are Alessandro de' Medici, Duke of Florence (1510), Matilda of Tuscany (1046), Maria Luisa of Spain (1745), Statius (40), Pope Stephen I (200), and Damocles (null).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

Among film directors born in Italy, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 10Before him are Sergio Leone (1929), Bernardo Bertolucci (1941), Michelangelo Antonioni (1912), Roberto Rossellini (1906), Vittorio De Sica (1901), and Tinto Brass (1933). After him are Frank Capra (1897), Dario Argento (1940), Lina Wertmüller (1928), Ettore Scola (1931), Sergio Corbucci (1926), and Dino Risi (1916).

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