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FILM DIRECTOR

Garry Marshall

1934 - 2016

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Garry Kent Marshall (November 13, 1934 – July 19, 2016) was an American screenwriter, film director, producer and actor. Marshall began his career in the 1960s as a writer for The Lucy Show and Dick Van Dyke Show until he developed the television adaptation of Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Garry Marshall has received more than 6,877,345 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 67 in 2019). Garry Marshall is the 291st most popular film director (up from 408th in 2019), the 1,944th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,636th in 2019) and the 84th most popular American Film Director.

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.57

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Garry Marshall ranks 291 out of 1,581. Before him are Ousmane Sembène, Darren Aronofsky, Michael Bay, Germaine Dulac, Ruggero Deodato, and Yuen Woo-ping. After him are Richard Brooks, Mike Nichols, Béla Tarr, M. Night Shyamalan, Leos Carax, and Carol Reed.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Garry Marshall ranks 103. Before him are Khun Sa, Gloria Steinem, Jean Sorel, Victor French, Alan Bates, and Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma. After him are Howard Martin Temin, Leonard Kleinrock, Vladimir Posner, Ornella Vanoni, Tony Hoare, and Ken Rosewall. Among people deceased in 2016, Garry Marshall ranks 97. Before him are Michael Massee, Kenny Baker, Thomas Luckmann, Claude Gensac, Henry Heimlich, and Gordie Howe. After him are Chris Amon, Mohamed Abdelaziz, Bata Živojinović, Erich Rudorffer, André Courrèges, and Andrew Grove.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Garry Marshall ranks 1,944 out of 18,182. Before him are Dan Inosanto (1936), Terry Riley (1935), Busta Rhymes (1972), Frank Zane (1942), Sam Elliott (1944), and Alexander Shulgin (1925). After him are Jessica Chastain (1977), John O'Keefe (1939), Upton Sinclair (1878), Marion Zimmer Bradley (1930), Griffin Dunne (1955), and Thomas J. Watson (1874).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Garry Marshall ranks 84. Before him are Leo McCarey (1898), Paul Schrader (1946), Steven Soderbergh (1963), Roger Corman (1926), Darren Aronofsky (1969), and Michael Bay (1965). After him are Richard Brooks (1912), Henry King (1886), John Landis (1950), Jim Henson (1936), King Vidor (1894), and Frank Borzage (1894).

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Filmography

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