FILM DIRECTOR

Frank Lloyd

1886 - 1960

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Frank William George Lloyd (2 February 1886 – 10 August 1960) was a Scottish-American film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He was among the founders of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, and was its president from 1934 to 1935. He is Scotland's first Academy Award winner and is unique in film history, having received three Oscar nominations in 1929 for his work on a silent film (The Divine Lady), a part-talkie (Weary River) and a full talkie (Drag). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Frank Lloyd has received more than 223,230 page views. His biography is available in 48 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 45 in 2019). Frank Lloyd is the 260th most popular film director (up from 278th in 2019), the 1,059th most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,168th in 2019) and the 17th most popular British Film Director.

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  • 59.12

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 48

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Frank Lloyd ranks 260 out of 2,041. Before him are Assi Dayan, Julien Duvivier, Peter Bogdanovich, Richard Fleischer, Menahem Golan, and Henri Verneuil. After him are Robert Aldrich, John Frankenheimer, Hideaki Anno, Joseph Losey, David Hamilton, and Robert Siodmak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1886, Frank Lloyd ranks 58. Before him are Giovanni Battista Caproni, Jisaburō Ozawa, Raymond A. Spruance, Georg Stumme, Rex Stout, and Raoul Hausmann. After him are Gyula Gömbös, Karl Korsch, Nikolay Gumilyov, Sessue Hayakawa, Werner Kempf, and Hugh Lofting. Among people deceased in 1960, Frank Lloyd ranks 43. Before him are Paul Abraham, Jacques Becker, Otoya Yamaguchi, Norodom Suramarit, John D. Rockefeller Jr., and Eddie Cochran. After him are Jussi Björling, Beno Gutenberg, Vicki Baum, Yan Xishan, August Kopff, and Feroze Gandhi.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Frank Lloyd ranks 1,059 out of 8,785. Before him are Prince Henry, Duke of Gloucester (1900), Reginald Pole (1500), Joseph Bell (1837), Edward Wood, 1st Earl of Halifax (1881), Ron Dennis (1947), and George Boleyn, 2nd Viscount Rochford (1504). After him are Stephen Boyd (1931), Thomas Willis (1621), Frank Oz (1944), William Smith (1769), Isabella Bird (1831), and David Hamilton (1933).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Frank Lloyd ranks 17. Before him are Stephen Frears (1941), Mike Newell (1942), Danny Boyle (1956), Carol Reed (1906), Guy Ritchie (1968), and Tony Richardson (1928). After him are David Hamilton (1933), John Schlesinger (1926), Adrian Lyne (1941), John Boorman (1933), Anthony Minghella (1954), and J. Lee Thompson (1914).

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