FILM DIRECTOR

Friz Freleng

1906 - 1995

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Isadore "Friz" Freleng (; August 21, 1905 – May 26, 1995), credited as I. Freleng early in his career, was an American animator, cartoonist, director, producer, and composer known for his work at Warner Bros. Cartoons on the Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies series of cartoons from the 1930s to the early 1960s. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Friz Freleng has received more than 1,050,168 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Friz Freleng is the 659th most popular film director (down from 540th in 2019), the 4,187th most popular biography from United States (down from 3,606th in 2019) and the 161st most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Friz Freleng ranks 659 out of 2,041Before him are Lawrence Kasdan, Mario Salieri, Rob Marshall, Stan Winston, John Pilger, and Bruno Nuytten. After him are Paul Thomas Anderson, Stanislav Govorukhin, Andrew Blake, Johnnie To, Robert Z. Leonard, and Aleksei Kapler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Friz Freleng ranks 186Before him are Jerzy Giedroyc, Jan Werich, R. K. Narayan, Agniya Barto, Andrey Nikolayevich Tikhonov, and John D. Rockefeller III. After him are Alex Thépot, Igor Moiseyev, Paolo Pedretti, S. D. Burman, Princess Vera Constantinovna of Russia, and Juan Carlos Calvo. Among people deceased in 1995, Friz Freleng ranks 149Before him are Oles Honchar, John Brunner, Dany Robin, Vladimir Ivashov, Ashapurna Devi, and Jesús Garay. After him are Jüri Järvet, Willem Frederik Hermans, Ioannis Alevras, Claudio Brook, Ingo Schwichtenberg, and Pál Kovács.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Friz Freleng ranks 4,187 out of 20,380Before him are Don Adams (1923), Joe Walsh (1947), Jackie Earle Haley (1961), Alice Coltrane (1937), Black Elk (1863), and Robert Sapolsky (1957). After him are Adrienne Barbeau (1945), Jennifer Warnes (1947), Ona Zee (1951), Harrison Ford (1884), Son House (1902), and Charles Jencks (1939).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Friz Freleng ranks 161Before him are David Zucker (1947), Rob Cohen (1949), Nancy Meyers (1949), Lawrence Kasdan (1949), Rob Marshall (1960), and Stan Winston (1946). After him are Paul Thomas Anderson (1970), Andrew Blake (1947), Robert Z. Leonard (1889), Richard Linklater (1960), Joe Johnston (1950), and Alexander Payne (1961).