Film Director

Fred Zinnemann

Austrian-American film director

1907 - 1997

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His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 51 in 2024). Fred Zinnemann is the 85th most popular film director (up from 86th in 2024), the 123rd most popular biography from Poland (down from 111th in 2019) and the 5th most popular Polish Film Director.

Fred Zinnemann is most famous for directing the Academy Award-winning films, "A Man for All Seasons" and "Julia."

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Fred Zinnemann ranks #85 of 2,296 Film Directors worldwide, placing them among the top 4% of the profession.

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Fred Zinnemann's biography appears in 54 language editions of Wikipedia, more than 94% of all Film Directors.

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Among Film Directors

Among film directors, Fred Zinnemann ranks 85 out of 2,296. Before him are Alain Resnais, Franco Zeffirelli, Alan Parker, Robert Bresson, Peter Brook, and Ernst Lubitsch. After him are Howard Hawks, James Ivory, Terry Gilliam, Manoel de Oliveira, Carl Theodor Dreyer, and John Carpenter.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Fred Zinnemann ranks 31. Before him are Hideki Yukawa, Daniel Bovet, Robert A. Heinlein, Sister Lúcia, François Duvalier, and Lin Biao. After him are Horst Wessel, John Bowlby, U Nu, Giovanna of Italy, Daphne du Maurier, and Jacques Tati. Among people deceased in 1997, Fred Zinnemann ranks 30. Before him are William S. Burroughs, Clyde Tombaugh, Isaiah Berlin, Hans Eysenck, Bohumil Hrabal, and Roy Lichtenstein. After him are Edward Mills Purcell, Alfred Hershey, Allen Ginsberg, Aldo Rossi, Helenio Herrera, and John Eccles.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Fred Zinnemann ranks 123 out of 2,054. Before him are Władysław Sikorski (1881), Arthur Liebehenschel (1901), Alexander Jagiellon (1461), Pola Negri (1897), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), and Klaus von Klitzing (1943). After him are Karl Ludwig Hencke (1793), Joseph Rotblat (1908), Julia, Princess of Battenberg (1825), Antoni Grabowski (1857), Casimir IV Jagiellon (1427), and Kurt Daluege (1897).

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Among Film Directors In Poland

Among film directors born in Poland, Fred Zinnemann ranks 5. Before him are Billy Wilder (1906), Krzysztof Kieślowski (1941), Andrzej Wajda (1926), and Dziga Vertov (1896). After him are Jerzy Grotowski (1933), Agnieszka Holland (1948), Jerzy Skolimowski (1938), Robert Wiene (1873), Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), and Krzysztof Zanussi (1939).

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