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FILM DIRECTOR

George Marshall

1891 - 1975

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George E. Marshall (December 29, 1891 – February 17, 1975) was an American actor, screenwriter, producer, film and television director, active through the first six decades of film history. Relatively few of Marshall's films are well-known today, with Destry Rides Again (1939), The Ghost Breakers (1940), The Blue Dahlia (1946), The Sheepman (1958), and How the West Was Won (1962) being the biggest exceptions. John Houseman called him "one of the old maestros of Hollywood ... Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of George Marshall has received more than 2,616,575 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. George Marshall is the 775th most popular film director (up from 3,184th in 2019), the 4,999th most popular biography from United States (up from 5,086th in 2019) and the 191st most popular American Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, George Marshall ranks 775 out of 1,581Before him are Bruno Dumont, Dante Ferretti, Edmund Goulding, Richard C. Sarafian, Joseph Vilsmaier, and Corey Yuen. After him are Tomás Gutiérrez Alea, Jerry Schatzberg, František Vláčil, Edgar Wright, Timothy Treadwell, and Stuart Rosenberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, George Marshall ranks 161Before him are Carl Spaatz, José Enrique Varela, Federico Moreno Torroba, Fred Kelly, Edmund Goulding, and Sam Jaffe. After him are Dmitry Furmanov, Charles Journet, Vladimir Albitsky, Emil Julius Gumbel, Alexander Volkov, and Françoise Rosay. Among people deceased in 1975, George Marshall ranks 134Before him are Andrés Mazali, José María Guido, Murray Leinster, Minas Avetisyan, Moe Howard, and Joseph Guillemot. After him are Shojiro Sugimura, Sisowath Sirik Matak, Louis Jordan, S. D. Burman, Charles Journet, and Constantinos Apostolou Doxiadis.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, George Marshall ranks 4,999 out of 18,182Before him are Lester R. Brown (1934), William J. Donovan (1883), Jack Kramer (1921), Keith David (1956), Misha Collins (1974), and Ludacris (1977). After him are Adrian Belew (1949), Tracy Pollan (1960), Jenna Fischer (1974), Jesse Jane (1980), Sandra Brown (1948), and Kenneth Arnold (1915).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, George Marshall ranks 191Before him are Sean S. Cunningham (1941), Ernest B. Schoedsack (1893), Chris Carter (1956), Gregory Hoblit (1944), Andrew Davis (1946), and Richard C. Sarafian (1930). After him are Jerry Schatzberg (1927), Timothy Treadwell (1957), Stuart Rosenberg (1927), Bob Gale (1951), John Cromwell (1886), and Eli Roth (1972).

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