FILM DIRECTOR

George Cukor

1899 - 1983

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George Dewey Cukor ( KEW-kor; July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and producer. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO when David O. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Cukor has received more than 1,662,116 page views. His biography is available in 59 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 57 in 2019). George Cukor is the 96th most popular film director (up from 111th in 2019), the 635th most popular biography from United States (up from 737th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Film Director.

George Cukor is most famous for his work as a director. He directed The Women, A Star is Born, and Gaslight.

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  • 1.7M

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  • 65.29

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  • 59

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  • 6.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.15

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, George Cukor ranks 96 out of 2,041. Before him are Carl Theodor Dreyer, Richard Attenborough, William Friedkin, Andrzej Żuławski, Robert Bresson, and René Clair. After him are Sidney Lumet, Michael Mann, Zhang Yimou, Sam Peckinpah, Ang Lee, and Marcel Carné.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1899, George Cukor ranks 24. Before him are Adnan Menderes, Erich von dem Bach-Zelewski, Béla Guttmann, Albert Claude, Paul Hermann Müller, and Erich Kästner. After him are Paul-Henri Spaak, Gustav Heinemann, Fritz Albert Lipmann, Cevdet Sunay, Bertil Ohlin, and Max Theiler. Among people deceased in 1983, George Cukor ranks 18. Before him are Meyer Lansky, Arthur Koestler, Albert Claude, Nikolai Podgorny, Raymond Aron, and David Niven. After him are Haldan Keffer Hartline, Buckminster Fuller, Gerhard Barkhorn, Alfred Tarski, Gloria Swanson, and Ulf von Euler.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Cukor ranks 635 out of 20,380. Before him are Whoopi Goldberg (1955), Louisa May Alcott (1832), Paul Krugman (1953), Jamie Lee Curtis (1958), Carl Lewis (1961), and Alfred Kinsey (1894). After him are Sidney Lumet (1924), Charles Taze Russell (1852), Ariana Grande (1993), Richard Kiel (1939), Richard Chamberlain (1934), and Gene Wilder (1933).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, George Cukor ranks 20. Before him are Robert Zemeckis (1952), Chuck Jones (1912), Sydney Pollack (1934), Terry Gilliam (1940), Jim Jarmusch (1953), and William Friedkin (1935). After him are Sidney Lumet (1924), Michael Mann (1943), Sam Peckinpah (1925), Walter Hill (1942), Mel Brooks (1926), and John Carpenter (1948).

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Filmography

My Fair Lady
Director
A snobbish phonetics professor agrees to a wager that he can take a flower girl and make her presentable in high society.
Oct 21o 19647.504 / 10
The Philadelphia Story
Director
When a rich woman's ex-husband and a tabloid-type reporter turn up just before her planned remarriage, she begins to learn the truth about herself.
Dec 5o 19407.6 / 10
Gaslight
Director
A newlywed fears she's going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
May 4o 19447.5 / 10