FILM DIRECTOR

Grigori Aleksandrov

1903 - 1983

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Grigori Vasilyevich Aleksandrov (23 January 1903 – 16 December 1983, known by artist name Mormonenko) was a Soviet film director who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1947 and a Hero of Socialist Labour in 1973. He was awarded the Stalin Prizes for 1941 and 1950. Initially associated with Sergei Eisenstein, with whom he worked as a co-director, screenwriter and actor, Aleksandrov became a major director in his own right in the 1930s, when he directed Jolly Fellows and a string of other musical comedies starring his wife Lyubov Orlova. Though Aleksandrov remained active until his death, his musicals, amongst the first made in the Soviet Union, remain his most popular films. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 34 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Grigori Aleksandrov is the 489th most popular film director (up from 505th in 2019), the 901st most popular biography from Russia (up from 915th in 2019) and the 15th most popular Russian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Grigori Aleksandrov ranks 489 out of 2,041. Before him are Fernando Meirelles, Elio Petri, Renny Harlin, Jörn Donner, Jim Abrahams, and Louis Delluc. After him are John Waters, Curtis Hanson, Alf Sjöberg, Alexander Kluge, Richard Thorpe, and Pierre Woodman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1903, Grigori Aleksandrov ranks 129. Before him are Cigerxwîn, Gregory Goodwin Pincus, Amy Johnson, K. Kamaraj, Boris Blacher, and Florence Owens Thompson. After him are Alf Sjöberg, Nikolay Cherkasov, Abba P. Lerner, Ferenc Nagy, Cyril Jackson, and Bertrand de Jouvenel. Among people deceased in 1983, Grigori Aleksandrov ranks 90. Before him are Jørgen Juve, Donald Maclean, Ángel Labruna, Lamberto Maggiorani, Florence Owens Thompson, and Salo Flohr. After him are Hennes Weisweiler, Jerzy Andrzejewski, John Vorster, Vladimir Bakarić, Eric Hoffer, and Roy Sullivan.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Grigori Aleksandrov ranks 901 out of 3,761. Before him are Ilya Ivanovich Ivanov (1870), Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia (1891), Sergey Belyavsky (1883), Andrey Myagkov (1938), Alexey Maresyev (1916), and Arkady Rotenberg (1951). After him are George Maximilianovich, 6th Duke of Leuchtenberg (1852), Nikolai Korotkov (1874), Andrey Kurbsky (1528), Edgar Froese (1944), Sergey Aksakov (1791), and Nikolay Cherkasov (1903).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Russia

Among film directors born in Russia, Grigori Aleksandrov ranks 15. Before him are Leonid Gaidai (1923), Elem Klimov (1933), Eldar Ryazanov (1927), Ladislas Starevich (1882), Alexander Sokurov (1951), and Yuri Norstein (1941). After him are Gleb Panfilov (1934), Boris Barnet (1902), Mikhail Romm (1901), Sergei Yutkevich (1904), Yakov Protazanov (1881), and Sergei Gerasimov (1906).

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