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FILM DIRECTOR

Guy Ritchie

1968 - Today

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Guy Stuart Ritchie (born 10 September 1968) is an English film director, producer and screenwriter. His work includes British gangster films, and the Sherlock Holmes films starring Robert Downey Jr. Ritchie left school at the age of 15, and worked in entry-level jobs in the film industry before going on to direct television commercials. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Guy Ritchie has received more than 17,435,902 page views. His biography is available in 54 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 53 in 2019). Guy Ritchie is the 179th most popular film director (down from 164th in 2019), the 784th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 767th in 2019) and the 11th most popular British Film Director.

Guy Ritchie is most famous for directing the Sherlock Holmes movies.

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  • 17M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 61.14

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 54

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 6.27

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.73

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare’s cast on what makes Guy Ritchie so unique
Members of The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare cast speaks to Digital Trends about Guy Ritchie's filmmaking style and the key to working in large ensembles.
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Saturday, April 20, 2024
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‘Stop Doing That. That’s Terrible’: Henry Cavill Reveals The Funny Notes He Got From Guy Ritchie As He Improvised On Ministry Of Ungentlemanly Warfare
Henry Cavill spoke to CinemaBlend about the process of improvising lines in The Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare.
Sarah El-Mahmoud
Friday, April 19, 2024

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Guy Ritchie ranks 179 out of 1,581. Before him are Nikita Mikhalkov, Claude Lanzmann, Robert Aldrich, Peter Weir, Don Siegel, and G. W. Pabst. After him are Dino Risi, Danny Boyle, Alice Guy-Blaché, Francesco Rosi, Giuseppe Tornatore, and James Ivory.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1968, Guy Ritchie ranks 13. Before him are Mika Häkkinen, Naomi Watts, Gillian Anderson, Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović, Didier Deschamps, and Marine Le Pen. After him are Davor Šuker, Frederik, Crown Prince of Denmark, Timothy McVeigh, Kylie Minogue, Emmanuelle Charpentier, and Josh Brolin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Guy Ritchie ranks 784 out of 7,765. Before him are Richard Laurence Millington Synge (1914), James Macpherson (1736), Thomas Tallis (1502), John Langdon Down (1828), Imelda Staunton (1956), and John Gielgud (1904). After him are John William Polidori (1795), Saint Malachy (1094), Prince George, Duke of Kent (1902), Alan Hodgkin (1914), Danny Boyle (1956), and Lady Mary Victoria Douglas-Hamilton (1850).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, Guy Ritchie ranks 11. Before him are Alan Parker (1944), David Lean (1908), Christopher Nolan (1970), Tony Scott (1944), Peter Brook (1925), and Peter Greenaway (1942). After him are Danny Boyle (1956), Tony Richardson (1928), Mike Newell (1942), Stephen Frears (1941), David Hamilton (1933), and John Schlesinger (1926).

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