FILM DIRECTOR

Fred Zinnemann

1907 - 1997

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Alfred Zinnemann (April 29, 1907 – March 14, 1997) was an Austrian-American film director and producer. He won four Academy Awards for directing and producing films in various genres, including thrillers, westerns, film noir and play adaptations. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Fred Zinnemann has received more than 841,922 page views. His biography is available in 51 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 46 in 2019). Fred Zinnemann is the 86th most popular film director (up from 90th in 2019), the 111th most popular biography from Poland (down from 108th 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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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Fred Zinnemann ranks 86 out of 2,041. Before him are Franco Zeffirelli, Costa-Gavras, Dario Argento, Carlos Saura, F. W. Murnau, and Peter Brook. After him are Wolfgang Petersen, Satyajit Ray, Jim Jarmusch, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Richard Attenborough, and William Friedkin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1907, Fred Zinnemann ranks 25. Before him are Lin Biao, Hideki Yukawa, Robert A. Heinlein, Lars Ahlfors, Yang Shangkun, and Bhagat Singh. After him are John Bowlby, Horst Wessel, Nikolaas Tinbergen, Sister Lúcia, François Duvalier, and Daniel Bovet. Among people deceased in 1997, Fred Zinnemann ranks 22. Before him are Roy Lichtenstein, Bohumil Hrabal, Chaim Herzog, Sviatoslav Richter, Hans Eysenck, and William S. Burroughs. After him are Isaiah Berlin, Allen Ginsberg, Bảo Đại, Helenio Herrera, Dodi Fayed, and Burgess Meredith.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Fred Zinnemann ranks 111 out of 1,694. Before him are Maria Feodorovna (1759), Leopold Kronecker (1823), Hanna Reitsch (1912), Zdzisław Beksiński (1929), Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski (1899), and Alexander Jagiellon (1461). After him are Jarosław Kaczyński (1949), Władysław Reymont (1867), Osip Mandelstam (1891), Wolfram Freiherr von Richthofen (1895), Alfred von Tirpitz (1849), and Helena Rubinstein (1872).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Poland

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

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Filmography

High Noon
Director
Will Kane, the sheriff of a small town in New Mexico, learns a notorious outlaw he put in jail has been freed, and will be arriving on the noon train. Knowing the outlaw and his gang are coming to kill him, Kane is determined to stand his ground, so he attempts to gather a posse from among the local townspeople.
Jun 9th 19527.678 / 10
From Here to Eternity
Director
In 1941 Hawaii, a private is cruelly punished for not boxing on his unit's team, while his captain's wife and second in command are falling in love.
Aug 28th 19537.3 / 10
The Day of the Jackal
Director
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
May 16th 19737.517 / 10