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FILM DIRECTOR

Gabriel Axel

1918 - 2014

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Axel Gabriel Erik Mørch better known as Gabriel Axel (18 April 1918 – 9 February 2014) was a Danish film director, actor, writer and producer, best known for Babette's Feast (1987), which he wrote and directed. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gabriel Axel has received more than 104,902 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia. Gabriel Axel is the 275th most popular film director (down from 259th in 2019), the 158th most popular biography from Denmark (down from 149th in 2019) and the 4th most popular Danish Film Director.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.83

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.95

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Gabriel Axel ranks 275 out of 1,581. Before him are Tobe Hooper, George Roy Hill, Henry Hathaway, Jean Rouch, Leo McCarey, and Krzysztof Zanussi. After him are Dušan Makavejev, Jacques Becker, Frank Lloyd, Paul Schrader, Otar Iosseliani, and Steven Soderbergh.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Gabriel Axel ranks 72. Before him are Fanny Blankers-Koen, Jin Youzhi, Yigal Allon, Jean-Marie Loret, Kakuei Tanaka, and João Figueiredo. After him are Philip José Farmer, Kenichi Fukui, Humaira Begum, Volodymyr Shcherbytsky, Takashi Kasahara, and Spiro Agnew. Among people deceased in 2014, Gabriel Axel ranks 68. Before him are Věra Chytilová, Hilderaldo Bellini, Chespirito, Luise Rainer, Siegfried Lenz, and Fred Phelps. After him are Ahmad Tejan Kabbah, Run Run Shaw, Karl Albrecht, Larry Scott, Richard Møller Nielsen, and Malcolm Glazer.

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In Denmark

Among people born in Denmark, Gabriel Axel ranks 158 out of 893. Before him are Morten Olsen (1949), Christoffer Wilhelm Eckersberg (1783), Anne Sophie Reventlow (1693), Princess Margaret of Denmark (1895), Vilhelm Thomsen (1842), and Jesper Christensen (1948). After him are Carl Bloch (1834), Asger Jorn (1914), Thyra (800), Richard Møller Nielsen (1937), Carl Værnet (1893), and Nikolaj Coster-Waldau (1970).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Denmark

Among film directors born in Denmark, Gabriel Axel ranks 4. Before him are Lars von Trier (1956), Carl Theodor Dreyer (1889), and Bille August (1948). After him are Thomas Vinterberg (1969), Susanne Bier (1960), Henning Carlsen (1927), Nicolas Winding Refn (1970), Benjamin Christensen (1879), Erik Balling (1924), Søren Kragh-Jacobsen (1947), and Jørgen Leth (1937).

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Filmography

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