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Gordon Willis

1931 - 2014

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Gordon Hugh Willis Jr., ASC (May 28, 1931 – May 18, 2014) was an American cinematographer and film director. He is best known for his photographic work on eight Woody Allen films (including Annie Hall and Manhattan), six Alan J. Pakula films (including All the President's Men), four James Bridges films, and all three films from Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather series. Fellow cinematographer William A. Fraker called Willis's work a "milestone in visual storytelling", while one critic suggested that Willis "defined the cinematic look of the 1970s: sophisticated compositions in which bolts of light and black put the decade's moral ambiguities into stark relief". Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gordon Willis has received more than 461,869 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Gordon Willis is the 4,616th most popular writer (down from 3,910th in 2019), the 6,231st most popular biography from United States (down from 5,267th in 2019) and the 500th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 460k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.67

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.56

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.84

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gordon Willis ranks 4,616 out of 7,302. Before him are Art Buchwald, John Piper, Ronald Knox, Abdülhak Hâmid Tarhan, Javier Cercas, and Peter Carey. After him are Jorge Ibargüengoitia, Gonçalves Dias, Anita Loos, Agnes Miegel, Robert Lowell, and Staka Skenderova.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Gordon Willis ranks 342. Before him are John Baldessari, Ángel Berni, George Maxwell Richards, Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, Dan Rather, and Hal Needham. After him are Marshall Applewhite, Anatoli Ilyin, Denise Scott Brown, Ibrahim Biogradlić, Tamara Rylova, and Shuntarō Tanikawa. Among people deceased in 2014, Gordon Willis ranks 281. Before him are Amiri Baraka, Zbigniew Messner, Åke Johansson, Joep Lange, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, and Klas Ingesson. After him are Valerian Wellesley, 8th Duke of Wellington, Horacio Troche, Lorella De Luca, Duraisamy Simon Lourdusamy, Mohammed Fahim, and Ara Shiraz.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gordon Willis ranks 6,231 out of 20,380. Before him are Gene Pitney (1940), Jason Patric (1966), Sandy Dennis (1937), Lee Ritenour (1952), Glynn Turman (1947), and Laurene Powell Jobs (1963). After him are Marshall Applewhite (1931), Sting (1959), Theodore Freeman (1930), Corinne Griffith (1894), Anita Loos (1889), and Gary Ross (1956).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gordon Willis ranks 500. Before him are Jack Canfield (1944), Robert Greene (1959), Robert Richardson (1955), Camille Paglia (1947), Art Buchwald (1925), and John Piper (1946). After him are Anita Loos (1889), Robert Lowell (1917), James Agee (1909), Zane Grey (1872), Nicholas Meyer (1945), and Eudora Welty (1909).

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