1861 - 1938
Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (; French: [meljɛs]; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938), was a French illusionist, actor and film director who led many technical and narrative developments in the earliest days of cinema. Méliès was well known for the use of special effects, popularizing such techniques as substitution splices, multiple exposures, time-lapse photography, dissolves, and hand-painted colour. He was also one of the first filmmakers to use storyboards. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Méliès has received more than 2,326,675 page views. His biography is available in 63 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 60 in 2019). Georges Méliès is the 23rd most popular film director (down from 22nd in 2019), the 207th most popular biography from France (down from 192nd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular French Film Director.
Georges Méliès is most famous for being the first person to use special effects in movies, like stop motion and time-lapse photography.
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Among film directors, Georges Méliès ranks 23 out of 1,580. Before him are Leni Riefenstahl, Luchino Visconti, Luis Buñuel, Miloš Forman, Jean-Luc Godard, and Bernardo Bertolucci. After him are François Truffaut, Michelangelo Antonioni, Pedro Almodóvar, David Lynch, Quentin Tarantino, and George Lucas.
1902 - 2003
HPI: 80.52
Rank: 17
1906 - 1976
HPI: 80.44
Rank: 18
1900 - 1983
HPI: 80.29
Rank: 19
1932 - 2018
HPI: 80.22
Rank: 20
1930 - Present
HPI: 79.93
Rank: 21
1941 - 2018
HPI: 79.78
Rank: 22
1861 - 1938
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 23
1932 - 1984
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 24
1912 - 2007
HPI: 79.03
Rank: 25
1949 - Present
HPI: 78.84
Rank: 26
1946 - Present
HPI: 78.55
Rank: 27
1963 - Present
HPI: 78.46
Rank: 28
1944 - Present
HPI: 78.37
Rank: 29
Among people born in 1861, Georges Méliès ranks 6. Before him are Rabindranath Tagore, Rudolf Steiner, Mehmed VI, Fridtjof Nansen, and Lou Andreas-Salomé. After him are James Naismith, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, Victor Horta, Charles Édouard Guillaume, Erich von Falkenhayn, and Alfred North Whitehead. Among people deceased in 1938, Georges Méliès ranks 3. Before him are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and Edmund Husserl. After him are Konstantin Stanislavski, Karel Čapek, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Nikolai Bukharin, Béla Kun, Faustina Kowalska, Kanō Jigorō, Charles Édouard Guillaume, and Karl Kautsky.
1861 - 1941
HPI: 84.23
Rank: 1
1861 - 1925
HPI: 82.57
Rank: 2
1861 - 1926
HPI: 82.27
Rank: 3
1861 - 1930
HPI: 81.43
Rank: 4
1861 - 1937
HPI: 80.48
Rank: 5
1861 - 1938
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 6
1861 - 1939
HPI: 77.80
Rank: 7
1861 - 1948
HPI: 77.49
Rank: 8
1861 - 1947
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 9
1861 - 1938
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 10
1861 - 1922
HPI: 76.13
Rank: 11
1861 - 1947
HPI: 75.87
Rank: 12
1881 - 1938
HPI: 91.37
Rank: 1
1859 - 1938
HPI: 82.49
Rank: 2
1861 - 1938
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 3
1863 - 1938
HPI: 79.72
Rank: 4
1890 - 1938
HPI: 78.91
Rank: 5
1880 - 1938
HPI: 78.22
Rank: 6
1888 - 1938
HPI: 77.19
Rank: 7
1886 - 1938
HPI: 77.05
Rank: 8
1905 - 1938
HPI: 76.78
Rank: 9
1860 - 1938
HPI: 76.69
Rank: 10
1861 - 1938
HPI: 76.40
Rank: 11
1854 - 1938
HPI: 76.28
Rank: 12
Among people born in France, Georges Méliès ranks 207 out of 5,234. Before him are Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (1635), John II of France (1319), Augustin-Louis Cauchy (1789), Guy of Lusignan (1150), Joseph Bonaparte (1768), and Charles the Simple (879). After him are Alfred Sisley (1839), Catherine Deneuve (1943), Charles-Augustin de Coulomb (1736), Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot (1796), Georges Pompidou (1911), and Olympe de Gouges (1748).
1635 - 1719
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 201
1319 - 1364
HPI: 79.87
Rank: 202
1789 - 1857
HPI: 79.82
Rank: 203
1150 - 1194
HPI: 79.81
Rank: 204
1768 - 1844
HPI: 79.79
Rank: 205
879 - 929
HPI: 79.75
Rank: 206
1861 - 1938
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 207
1839 - 1899
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 208
1943 - Present
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 209
1736 - 1806
HPI: 79.73
Rank: 210
1796 - 1875
HPI: 79.72
Rank: 211
1911 - 1974
HPI: 79.68
Rank: 212
1748 - 1793
HPI: 79.67
Rank: 213
Among film directors born in France, Georges Méliès ranks 3. Before him are Roman Polanski (1933) and Jean-Luc Godard (1930). After him are François Truffaut (1932), Jacques Tati (1907), Éric Rohmer (1920), Roger Vadim (1928), William Wyler (1902), Claude Chabrol (1930), Alain Resnais (1922), Luc Besson (1959), and Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943).
1933 - Present
HPI: 83.85
Rank: 1
1930 - Present
HPI: 79.93
Rank: 2
1861 - 1938
HPI: 79.74
Rank: 3
1932 - 1984
HPI: 79.22
Rank: 4
1907 - 1982
HPI: 75.93
Rank: 5
1920 - 2010
HPI: 75.64
Rank: 6
1928 - 2000
HPI: 75.49
Rank: 7
1902 - 1981
HPI: 75.17
Rank: 8
1930 - 2010
HPI: 75.16
Rank: 9
1922 - 2014
HPI: 74.49
Rank: 10
1959 - Present
HPI: 74.47
Rank: 11
1943 - Present
HPI: 73.80
Rank: 12