FILM DIRECTOR

Franco Zeffirelli

1923 - 2019

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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

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.

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Contemporaries

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.

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In Italy

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).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Italy

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).

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Filmography

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