1932 - 2006
Frank Paul Beyer (German: [fʁaŋk ˈbaɪ̯.ɐ] ; 26 May 1932 – 1 October 2006) was a German film director. In East Germany he was one of the most important film directors, working for the state film monopoly DEFA and directed films that dealt mostly with the Nazi era and contemporary East Germany. His film Trace of Stones was banned for 20 years in 1966 by the ruling SED. His 1975 film Jacob the Liar was the only East German film ever nominated for an Academy Award. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Beyer has received more than 65,460 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Frank Beyer is the 1,007th most popular film director (down from 958th in 2019), the 4,140th most popular biography from Germany (down from 3,763rd in 2019) and the 51st most popular German Film Director.
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Among film directors, Frank Beyer ranks 1,007 out of 1,581. Before him are Štefan Uher, Luis Llosa, Sergey Urusevsky, Larry Cohen, Kjell Grede, and Vladimir Bortko. After him are Jonas Åkerlund, Joe Wright, Lee Tamahori, Busby Berkeley, Byron Haskin, and Bennett Miller.
1930 - 1993
HPI: 46.57
Rank: 1,001
1951 - Present
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 1,002
1908 - 1974
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 1,003
1936 - 2019
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 1,004
1936 - 2017
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 1,005
1946 - Present
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 1,006
1932 - 2006
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 1,007
1965 - Present
HPI: 46.50
Rank: 1,008
1972 - Present
HPI: 46.48
Rank: 1,009
1950 - Present
HPI: 46.48
Rank: 1,010
1895 - 1976
HPI: 46.48
Rank: 1,011
1899 - 1984
HPI: 46.47
Rank: 1,012
1966 - Present
HPI: 46.47
Rank: 1,013
Among people born in 1932, Frank Beyer ranks 308. Before him are Ugo Mifsud Bonnici, Irma Johansson, Ferenc Sipos, Paul J. Weitz, Lewis Binford, and Peter Blake. After him are Richard Herd, Oliver Nelson, Josef Musil, Lyudvig Chibirov, Joe Engle, and Ben Bova. Among people deceased in 2006, Frank Beyer ranks 227. Before him are Konstantin Beskov, Ángel Suquía Goicoechea, Don Knotts, Jaroslav Pelikan, Andrey Petrov, and Don Thompson. After him are William P. Gottlieb, Gösta Löfgren, Miroslav Brozović, Aron Gurevich, Oskar Pastior, and Ruth Brown.
1932 - Present
HPI: 46.75
Rank: 302
1932 - Present
HPI: 46.67
Rank: 303
1932 - 1997
HPI: 46.65
Rank: 304
1932 - 2017
HPI: 46.61
Rank: 305
1932 - 2011
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 306
1932 - Present
HPI: 46.57
Rank: 307
1932 - 2006
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 308
1932 - 2020
HPI: 46.49
Rank: 309
1932 - 1975
HPI: 46.49
Rank: 310
1932 - 2017
HPI: 46.44
Rank: 311
1932 - Present
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 312
1932 - Present
HPI: 46.39
Rank: 313
1932 - 2020
HPI: 46.38
Rank: 314
1920 - 2006
HPI: 46.86
Rank: 221
1916 - 2006
HPI: 46.78
Rank: 222
1924 - 2006
HPI: 46.76
Rank: 223
1923 - 2006
HPI: 46.64
Rank: 224
1930 - 2006
HPI: 46.61
Rank: 225
1933 - 2006
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 226
1932 - 2006
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 227
1917 - 2006
HPI: 46.51
Rank: 228
1923 - 2006
HPI: 46.46
Rank: 229
1917 - 2006
HPI: 46.44
Rank: 230
1924 - 2006
HPI: 46.43
Rank: 231
1927 - 2006
HPI: 46.42
Rank: 232
1928 - 2006
HPI: 46.40
Rank: 233
Among people born in Germany, Frank Beyer ranks 4,140 out of 6,142. Before him are Paul Hermann (1646), Eduard Künneke (1885), Jürgen Möllemann (1945), Hermann Kant (1926), Norbert Blüm (1935), and Kurt Biedenkopf (1930). After him are Hieronymous Theodor Richter (1824), Georg Calixtus (1586), Lukas Foss (1922), Hans Carl Friedrich von Mangoldt (1854), Albrecht Berblinger (1770), and Albert Brülls (1937).
1646 - 1695
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 4,134
1885 - 1953
HPI: 46.60
Rank: 4,135
1945 - 2003
HPI: 46.58
Rank: 4,136
1926 - 2016
HPI: 46.55
Rank: 4,137
1935 - 2020
HPI: 46.54
Rank: 4,138
1930 - 2021
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 4,139
1932 - 2006
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 4,140
1824 - 1898
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 4,141
1586 - 1656
HPI: 46.51
Rank: 4,142
1922 - 2009
HPI: 46.51
Rank: 4,143
1854 - 1925
HPI: 46.50
Rank: 4,144
1770 - 1829
HPI: 46.50
Rank: 4,145
1937 - 2004
HPI: 46.49
Rank: 4,146
Among film directors born in Germany, Frank Beyer ranks 51. Before him are Ludwig Berger (1892), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (1973), E. A. Dupont (1891), Helmut Käutner (1908), Curtis Bernhardt (1899), and Helma Sanders-Brahms (1940). After him are Werner Klingler (1903), Helmut Dietl (1944), Herbert Selpin (1904), Kurt Maetzig (1911), Gerhard Lamprecht (1897), and Walter Lassally (1926).
1892 - 1969
HPI: 48.21
Rank: 45
1973 - Present
HPI: 47.58
Rank: 46
1891 - 1956
HPI: 47.47
Rank: 47
1908 - 1980
HPI: 47.31
Rank: 48
1899 - 1981
HPI: 46.96
Rank: 49
1940 - 2014
HPI: 46.85
Rank: 50
1932 - 2006
HPI: 46.53
Rank: 51
1903 - 1972
HPI: 46.39
Rank: 52
1944 - 2015
HPI: 46.11
Rank: 53
1904 - 1942
HPI: 46.05
Rank: 54
1911 - 2012
HPI: 46.03
Rank: 55
1897 - 1974
HPI: 45.87
Rank: 56
1926 - 2017
HPI: 45.40
Rank: 57