1923 - 2019
Gian Franco Corsi Zeffirelli (12 February 1923 – 15 June 2019), commonly known as Franco Zeffirelli (Italian pronunciation: [ˈfraŋko ddzeffiˈrɛlli]), was an Italian director and producer of operas, films and television. He was also a senator from 1994 until 2001 for the Italian centre-right Forza Italia party. Movies he directed included the romantic drama Romeo and Juliet (1968), for which he received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Director, and his 1967 version of The Taming of the Shrew with Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franco Zeffirelli has received more than 1,382,639 page views. His biography is available in 50 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 49 in 2019). Franco Zeffirelli is the 55th most popular film director (down from 33rd in 2019), the 510th most popular biography from Italy (down from 319th 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, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 55 out of 1,580. Before him are Sydney Pollack, Tim Burton, Roger Vadim, Chuck Jones, Agnès Varda, and Theo Angelopoulos. After him are Werner Herzog, William Wyler, Claude Chabrol, Yasujirō Ozu, Terry Gilliam, and Emir Kusturica.
1934 - 2008
HPI: 75.61
Rank: 49
1958 - Present
HPI: 75.51
Rank: 50
1928 - 2000
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 51
1912 - 2002
HPI: 75.47
Rank: 52
1928 - 2019
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 53
1935 - 2012
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 54
1923 - 2019
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 55
1942 - Present
HPI: 75.23
Rank: 56
1902 - 1981
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 57
1930 - 2010
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 58
1903 - 1963
HPI: 75.08
Rank: 59
1940 - Present
HPI: 75.05
Rank: 60
1954 - Present
HPI: 75.00
Rank: 61
Among people born in 1923, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 17. Before him are Irma Grese, Italo Calvino, Roy Lichtenstein, Wojciech Jaruzelski, Nadine Gordimer, and Peter II of Yugoslavia. After him are György Ligeti, Mas Oyama, Carroll Shelby, Marcel Marceau, Jack Kilby, and Lee Teng-hui. Among people deceased in 2019, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 11. Before him are Robert Mugabe, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali, Bruno Ganz, Rutger Hauer, Alexei Leonov, and Agnès Varda. After him are Doris Day, Peter Fonda, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, Jeffrey Epstein, Immanuel Wallerstein, and Mohamed Morsi.
1923 - 1945
HPI: 77.21
Rank: 11
1923 - 1985
HPI: 76.85
Rank: 12
1923 - 1997
HPI: 76.42
Rank: 13
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.37
Rank: 14
1923 - 2014
HPI: 76.19
Rank: 15
1923 - 1970
HPI: 75.56
Rank: 16
1923 - 2019
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 17
1923 - 2006
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 18
1923 - 1994
HPI: 74.95
Rank: 19
1923 - 2012
HPI: 74.91
Rank: 20
1923 - 2007
HPI: 74.71
Rank: 21
1923 - 2005
HPI: 74.43
Rank: 22
1923 - 2020
HPI: 74.38
Rank: 23
1924 - 2019
HPI: 79.29
Rank: 5
1936 - 2019
HPI: 77.69
Rank: 6
1941 - 2019
HPI: 77.07
Rank: 7
1944 - 2019
HPI: 76.56
Rank: 8
1934 - 2019
HPI: 75.98
Rank: 9
1928 - 2019
HPI: 75.41
Rank: 10
1923 - 2019
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 11
1922 - 2019
HPI: 75.29
Rank: 12
1940 - 2019
HPI: 75.27
Rank: 13
1971 - 2019
HPI: 74.74
Rank: 14
1953 - 2019
HPI: 74.61
Rank: 15
1930 - 2019
HPI: 74.56
Rank: 16
1951 - 2019
HPI: 74.33
Rank: 17
Among people born in Italy, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 510 out of 4,088. Before him are Lazzaro Spallanzani (1729), Pope Stephen II (715), Pope Stephen I (200), Domenico Cimarosa (1749), Benedetto Croce (1866), and Giorgio Napolitano (1925). After him are Gianni Rodari (1920), Ennius (-239), Elisabeth Farnese (1692), Josephine of Leuchtenberg (1807), Gaius Caesar (-20), and Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720).
1729 - 1799
HPI: 75.46
Rank: 504
715 - 757
HPI: 75.44
Rank: 505
200 - 257
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 506
1749 - 1801
HPI: 75.40
Rank: 507
1866 - 1952
HPI: 75.38
Rank: 508
1925 - Present
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 509
1923 - 2019
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 510
1920 - 1980
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 511
239 BC - 169 BC
HPI: 75.34
Rank: 512
1692 - 1766
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 513
1807 - 1876
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 514
20 BC - 4
HPI: 75.32
Rank: 515
1720 - 1778
HPI: 75.31
Rank: 516
Among film directors born in Italy, Franco Zeffirelli ranks 10. Before him are Luchino Visconti (1906), 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), Giuseppe Tornatore (1956), Ettore Scola (1931), Sergio Corbucci (1926), and Marco Ferreri (1928).
1906 - 1976
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 4
1941 - 2018
HPI: 79.78
Rank: 5
1912 - 2007
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 6
1906 - 1977
HPI: 77.77
Rank: 7
1901 - 1974
HPI: 76.86
Rank: 8
1933 - Present
HPI: 75.75
Rank: 9
1923 - 2019
HPI: 75.35
Rank: 10
1897 - 1991
HPI: 74.75
Rank: 11
1940 - Present
HPI: 74.01
Rank: 12
1956 - Present
HPI: 71.64
Rank: 13
1931 - 2016
HPI: 71.13
Rank: 14
1926 - 1990
HPI: 70.49
Rank: 15
1928 - 1997
HPI: 70.18
Rank: 16