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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 430,415 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Gordon Willis is the 3,923rd most popular writer (down from 3,456th in 2019), the 5,279th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,607th in 2019) and the 440th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 430k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 48.87

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.14

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.63

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Gordon Willis ranks 3,923 out of 5,755. Before him are Dorothee Sölle, Aleksei Kruchyonykh, Brigitte Hamann, Mike Resnick, Karl Ove Knausgård, and Gheorghe Asachi. After him are Tarasankar Bandyopadhyay, Vladimir Megre, Emmanuel Bove, Yoshiki Tanaka, Justinas Marcinkevičius, and Louise-Victorine Ackermann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Gordon Willis ranks 280. Before him are Joel Antônio Martins, Denise Scott Brown, Mustafa Dağıstanlı, Nicole Courcel, Mino De Rossi, and Paavo Haavikko. After him are Jean Philippe, Ingrid van Bergen, Alain Cavalier, Hal Needham, Hugh Thomas, Baron Thomas of Swynnerton, and Tamara Rylova. Among people deceased in 2014, Gordon Willis ranks 224. Before him are Martha Hyer, Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Maria Lassnig, Andréa Parisy, Tom Finney, and Helena Rakoczy. After him are Christophe de Margerie, Bobby Keys, Durdy Bayramov, René Llense, Pierre Bec, and Dave Legeno.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gordon Willis ranks 5,279 out of 18,182. Before him are Pamela Reed (1949), Ross Ulbricht (1984), Charles Bacon (1885), Mike Resnick (1942), Paul R. Ehrlich (1932), and Richard Marx (1963). After him are Murray Hamilton (1923), Daniel Burnham (1846), Shirley Fry (1927), S. Robson Walton (1944), Adolph Gottlieb (1903), and Bobby Keys (1943).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Gordon Willis ranks 440. Before him are Nathanael West (1903), T. C. Boyle (1948), Ida B. Wells (1862), Mona Simpson (1957), Leigh Brackett (1915), and Mike Resnick (1942). After him are Edna Ferber (1885), Bret Easton Ellis (1964), Shel Silverstein (1930), Camille Paglia (1947), Margaret Weis (1948), and William Wharton (1925).

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