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FILM DIRECTOR

Henry Koster

1905 - 1988

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Henry Koster (born Hermann Kosterlitz, May 1, 1905 – September 21, 1988) was a German-born film director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Henry Koster has received more than 176,953 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Henry Koster is the 582nd most popular film director (down from 500th in 2019), the 2,966th most popular biography from Germany (down from 2,499th in 2019) and the 27th most popular German Film Director.

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  • 180k

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  • 51.89

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 24

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 5.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.54

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Henry Koster ranks 582 out of 1,581Before him are Norman McLaren, Zoltán Fábri, Lewis Gilbert, Jean-Marc Vallée, Artavazd Peleshyan, and Grigori Kozintsev. After him are Kenneth Anger, Gustav von Wangenheim, Norman Taurog, Wojciech Has, Martin Brest, and Aleksei Kapler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1905, Henry Koster ranks 144Before him are Tore Keller, Franz König, Anfilogino Guarisi, Zdeněk Burian, István Avar, and Grigori Kozintsev. After him are Osvaldo Pugliese, Alexandre Villaplane, Manès Sperber, Paul Ariste, Tommy Dorsey, and Erich Neumann. Among people deceased in 1988, Henry Koster ranks 99Before him are Paolo Stoppa, Francis Ponge, Yuli Daniel, Frederick Ashton, Tore Keller, and Frank Zamboni. After him are Erich Probst, Daniel Guérin, Henry Armstrong, Roy Buchanan, Ulanhu, and Rose Ausländer.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Henry Koster ranks 2,966 out of 6,142Before him are Michael Ballhaus (1935), Princess Charlotte of Hesse-Darmstadt (1755), Friedrich Arnold Brockhaus (1772), Princess Sibylle of Saxe-Lauenburg (1675), Paul Fleming (1609), and Heinrich XXII, Prince Reuss of Greiz (1846). After him are Thomas Häßler (1966), George I, Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont (1747), Johann Lukas Schönlein (1793), Helmut Griem (1932), Adolph VIII, Count of Holstein (1401), and Johannes Nikolaus Tetens (1736).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Henry Koster ranks 27Before him are Oskar Fischinger (1900), Peter Stein (1937), Alexander Kluge (1932), Walter Ruttmann (1887), Walter Frentz (1907), and Tom Tykwer (1965). After him are Gustav von Wangenheim (1895), Oliver Hirschbiegel (1957), Bernd Eichinger (1949), Werner Schroeter (1945), Percy Adlon (1935), and Fatih Akin (1973).

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