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FILM DIRECTOR

Gordon Parks

1912 - 2006

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Gordon Roger Alexander Buchanan Parks (November 30, 1912 – March 7, 2006) was an American photographer, composer, author, poet, and film director, who became prominent in U.S. documentary photojournalism in the 1940s through 1970s—particularly in issues of civil rights, poverty and African Americans—and in glamour photography. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gordon Parks has received more than 1,587,673 page views. His biography is available in 28 different languages on Wikipedia. Gordon Parks is the 1,040th most popular film director (down from 924th in 2019), the 6,825th most popular biography from United States (down from 6,118th in 2019) and the 273rd most popular American Film Director.

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  • 46.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 28

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.80

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.62

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Gordon Parks ranks 1,040 out of 1,581Before him are Leopold Lindtberg, Lone Scherfig, John Pilger, Radu Mihăileanu, Fernando Birri, and Michael Chapman. After him are Kei Kumai, Rebecca Miller, Roman Abelevich Kachanov, Shinya Tsukamoto, Frédéric Rossif, and Pyotr Chardynin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1912, Gordon Parks ranks 267Before him are George Mikes, Bill Roberts, Santiago Lovell, György Sándor, Frank Oppenheimer, and Julián Berrendero. After him are Alfred Aston, Jehan Buhan, Eleanor Powell, Anton Buttigieg, Lauro Amadò, and Hércules de Miranda. Among people deceased in 2006, Gordon Parks ranks 237Before him are Aron Gurevich, Oskar Pastior, Ruth Brown, Darry Cowl, György Faludy, and Ole Madsen. After him are Kenneth Lay, Duygu Asena, Viktor Pavlov, Mirko Marjanović, Karl Hugo Strunz, and Ondina Valla.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gordon Parks ranks 6,825 out of 18,182Before him are Michael Chapman (1935), Marilyn Miller (1898), Jenny McCarthy (1972), Al Ernest Garcia (1887), Marion Donovan (1917), and Robert Moses (1888). After him are Edwin Stanton (1814), January Jones (1978), Timothy B. Schmit (1947), Raymond T. Odierno (1954), John Norton (1893), and Darryl Jones (1961).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In United States

Among film directors born in United States, Gordon Parks ranks 273Before him are Tay Garnett (1894), Tom McCarthy (1966), Trey Parker (1969), Charles Reisner (1887), Randall Wallace (1949), and Michael Chapman (1935). After him are Rebecca Miller (1962), Peter Farrelly (1956), Mimi Leder (1952), Lloyd Kaufman (1945), Irwin Winkler (1931), and Darren Star (1961).

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