FILM DIRECTOR

Franklin J. Schaffner

1920 - 1989

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Franklin James Schaffner (May 30, 1920 – July 2, 1989) was an American film, television, and stage director. He won the Academy Award for Best Director for Patton (1970), and is known for the films Planet of the Apes (1968), Nicholas and Alexandra (1971), Papillon (1973), and The Boys from Brazil (1978). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Franklin J. Schaffner has received more than 439,152 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). Franklin J. Schaffner is the 274th most popular film director (down from 262nd in 2019), the 386th most popular biography from Japan (down from 326th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Japanese Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 440k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.80

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 37

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.10

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.18

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Franklin J. Schaffners by language

Over the past year Franklin J. Schaffner has had the most page views in the with 59,437 views, followed by Italian (8,803), and French (7,315). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Ukrainian (33,600.00%), Malagasy (97.05%), and Latin (83.54%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Franklin J. Schaffner ranks 274 out of 2,041. Before him are Germaine Dulac, Bigas Luna, Jean Epstein, Martin Campbell, Leonid Gaidai, and Youssef Chahine. After him are Denis Villeneuve, Elem Klimov, Robert J. Flaherty, Jerzy Stuhr, Zack Snyder, and John Schlesinger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Franklin J. Schaffner ranks 89. Before him are Peter D. Mitchell, Mario Benedetti, Hans Blumenberg, Henri Verneuil, José López Portillo y Pacheco, and Jaan Kross. After him are Karl Albrecht, John Harsanyi, Ben Ferencz, Ricardo Montalbán, Heinz Hitler, and Kim Yong-ju. Among people deceased in 1989, Franklin J. Schaffner ranks 66. Before him are Countess Georgina von Wilczek, Kaoru Ishikawa, Karel Zeman, A. J. Ayer, Leonardo Sciascia, and Werner Best. After him are Bernard Blier, Alexander Sergeyevich Yakovlev, Luis Carlos Galán, Victor French, R. D. Laing, and Minoru Genda.

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In Japan

Among people born in Japan, Franklin J. Schaffner ranks 386 out of 6,245. Before him are Ōyama Iwao (1842), Sada Abe (1905), Emperor Go-Sanjō (1032), Enomoto Takeaki (1836), Takeshi Inoue (1928), and Akira Yoshino (1948). After him are Yoshirō Mori (1937), Hōjō Masako (1156), Takeo Wakabayashi (1907), Takeichi Nishi (1902), Sessue Hayakawa (1886), and Shigeo Sugimoto (1926).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Japan

Among film directors born in Japan, Franklin J. Schaffner ranks 12. Before him are Kenji Mizoguchi (1898), Shohei Imamura (1926), Masaki Kobayashi (1916), Nagisa Oshima (1932), Hirokazu Kore-eda (1962), and Hideaki Anno (1960). After him are Makoto Shinkai (1973), Mamoru Oshii (1951), Satoshi Kon (1963), Mikio Naruse (1905), Kinji Fukasaku (1930), and Ishirō Honda (1911).

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Filmography

Papillon
Director
A man befriends a fellow criminal as the two of them begin serving their sentence on a dreadful prison island, which inspires the man to plot his escape.
Dec 13o 19737.847 / 10
Planet of the Apes
Director
Astronaut Taylor crash lands on a distant planet ruled by apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Soon Taylor finds himself among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist.
Feb 7o 19687.646 / 10
Patton
Director
"Patton" tells the tale of General George S. Patton, famous tank commander of World War II. The film begins with patton's career in North Africa and progresses through the invasion of Germany and the fall of the Third Reich. Side plots also speak of Patton's numerous faults such his temper and habit towards insubordination.
Jan 25o 19707.502 / 10