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 6,827,864 page views. His biography is available in 68 different languages on Wikipedia. Garry Marshall is the 326th most popular film director (down from 291st in 2019), the 2,089th most popular biography from United States (down from 1,943rd in 2019) and the 86th most popular American Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 6.8M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 57.55

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 68

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 6.68

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Garry Marshalls by language

Over the past year Garry Marshall has had the most page views in the with 550,990 views, followed by Italian (26,533), and Russian (22,263). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Franco-Provençal (97.57%), Irish (84.88%), and Simple English (74.49%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Garry Marshall ranks 326 out of 2,041. Before him are Yuen Woo-ping, Marc Allégret, Francis Veber, Anatole Litvak, King Vidor, and Steven Soderbergh. After him are Leo McCarey, George Roy Hill, Jane Campion, Gustav Ucicky, Samuel Fuller, and Jan de Bont.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Garry Marshall ranks 107. Before him are Khun Sa, Alasdair Gray, Cláudio Hummes, Masao Uchino, Lucien Bianchi, and Jean Sorel. After him are Fredric Jameson, Kisho Kurokawa, Tony Hoare, Princess Maria Pia of Bourbon-Parma, Joan Didion, and Omar Karami. Among people deceased in 2016, Garry Marshall ranks 104. Before him are Anisa Makhlouf, Black, Peter Naur, Jorge Batlle, Michael Massee, and Henry Heimlich. After him are Mohamed Abdelaziz, Ernst Nolte, Yves Bonnefoy, Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Lloyd Shapley, and Michu Meszaros.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Garry Marshall ranks 2,089 out of 20,380. Before him are William Petersen (1953), William C. Durant (1861), Richard Pryor (1940), Upton Sinclair (1878), Jennifer Lawrence (1990), and Robert Lefkowitz (1943). After him are Edwin Howard Armstrong (1890), Don Walsh (1931), Jermaine Jackson (1954), Jonathan Frakes (1952), Leo McCarey (1898), and Fredric Jameson (1934).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Garry Marshall ranks 86. Before him are Jim Henson (1936), Paul Schrader (1946), Frank Borzage (1894), Darren Aronofsky (1969), King Vidor (1894), and Steven Soderbergh (1963). After him are Leo McCarey (1898), George Roy Hill (1921), Samuel Fuller (1912), Sofia Coppola (1971), Tobe Hooper (1943), and Henry King (1886).

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Filmography

Chicken Little
Director
When the sky really is falling and sanity has flown the coop, who will rise to save the day? Together with his hysterical band of misfit friends, Chicken Little must hatch a plan to save the planet from alien invasion and prove that the world's biggest hero is a little chicken.
Nov 4o 20055.887 / 10
Race to Witch Mountain
Director
A taxi driver gets more than he bargained for when he picks up two teen runaways. Not only does the pair possess supernatural powers, but they're also trying desperately to escape people who have made them their targets.
Mar 12o 20095.83 / 10
Never Been Kissed
Director
Josie Geller, a baby-faced junior copywriter at the Chicago Sun-Times, must pose as a student at her former high school to research contemporary teenage culture. With the help of her brother, Rob, Josie infiltrates the inner circle of the most popular clique on campus. But she hits a major snag in her investigation -- not to mention her own failed love life -- when she falls for her dreamy English teacher, Sam Coulson.
Apr 9o 19996.174 / 10