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FILM DIRECTOR

Georges Méliès

1861 - 1938

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Marie-Georges-Jean Méliès (; French: [meljɛs]; 8 December 1861 – 21 January 1938) was a French magician, actor, and film director. He led many technical and narrative developments in the early 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Georges Méliès has received more than 3,130,917 page views. His biography is available in 65 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 63 in 2019). Georges Méliès is the 22nd most popular film director (up from 23rd in 2019), the 207th most popular biography from France and the 4th 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

Among film directors, Georges Méliès ranks 22 out of 1,581. Before him are Andrei Tarkovsky, Jean-Luc Godard, Sergio Leone, Francis Ford Coppola, François Truffaut, and Miloš Forman. After him are Leni Riefenstahl, Pedro Almodóvar, Bernardo Bertolucci, Michelangelo Antonioni, Konstantin Stanislavski, and David Lynch.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1861, Georges Méliès ranks 5. Before him are Rabindranath Tagore, Mehmed VI, Rudolf Steiner, and Fridtjof Nansen. After him are Lou Andreas-Salomé, Ferdinand I of Bulgaria, James Naismith, Victor Horta, Erich von Falkenhayn, Charles Édouard Guillaume, and Alfred North Whitehead. Among people deceased in 1938, Georges Méliès ranks 4. Before him are Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, Edmund Husserl, and Kanō Jigorō. After him are Karel Čapek, Konstantin Stanislavski, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Béla Kun, Nikolai Bukharin, Karl Kautsky, Faustina Kowalska, and Charles Édouard Guillaume.

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In France

Among people born in France, Georges Méliès ranks 207 out of 6,011. Before him are François Truffaut (1932), Henri de Saint-Simon (1760), Henri Rousseau (1844), Léon Foucault (1819), Richard II of England (1367), and Nicéphore Niépce (1765). After him are Charles IV of France (1294), Saint Roch (1295), Pope Innocent VI (1282), Marie Thérèse of France (1778), Gustave Doré (1832), and John II of France (1319).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Georges Méliès ranks 4. Before him are Roman Polanski (1933), Jean-Luc Godard (1930), and François Truffaut (1932). After him are Éric Rohmer (1920), Jacques Tati (1907), William Wyler (1902), Roger Vadim (1928), Claude Chabrol (1930), Luc Besson (1959), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), and Robert Bresson (1901).

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Filmography

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