FILM DIRECTOR

Herbert Selpin

1904 - 1942

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Herbert Selpin (29 May 1904 – 1 August 1942) was a German film director, film editor, and screenwriter of light entertainment during the 1930s and 1940s. He is known for his final film, the partly suppressed 1943 propaganda film Titanic, during the production of which he was arrested by Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Herbert Selpin has received more than 108,278 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Herbert Selpin is the 1,073rd most popular film director (down from 1,049th in 2019), the 4,674th most popular biography from Germany (down from 4,200th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular German Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Herbert Selpin ranks 1,073 out of 2,041. Before him are Frédéric Rossif, David Furnish, Gerry Anderson, Alexander Nevzorov, Martin Frič, and Franz Antel. After him are Zbigniew Rybczyński, José Luis Garci, Fran Walsh, Byron Haskin, Curtis Bernhardt, and Noémie Lvovsky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1904, Herbert Selpin ranks 245. Before him are Elizabeth Roboz Einstein, Sven Thofelt, Christian Møller, Chūhei Nambu, Rukmini Devi Arundale, and Doris Eaton Travis. After him are Pretty Boy Floyd, Lillian Copeland, Paul Mattick, Margery Allingham, Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, and Tommy Douglas. Among people deceased in 1942, Herbert Selpin ranks 199. Before him are Ruth Maier, Frank Churchill, Ivan Horbachevsky, Cecilia Beaux, Jakob van Hoddis, and Alfred Asikainen. After him are James Juvenal, Mikhail Yefremov, Gertrud Adelborg, Harald Tammer, William Henry Young, and Mariya Polivanova.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Herbert Selpin ranks 4,674 out of 7,253. Before him are Rüdiger Abramczik (1956), Dieter Henrich (1927), Diana Damrau (1971), Mary Roos (1949), Hilde Schrader (1910), and Jörg Michael (1963). After him are Johann Gottfried Seume (1763), Reinhold Mack (1901), Hans-Jürgen Dörner (1951), Fritz Schwab (1919), Friedrich August Marschall von Bieberstein (1768), and Rudolf Wagner (1805).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Germany

Among film directors born in Germany, Herbert Selpin ranks 53. Before him are Helmut Käutner (1908), Kurt Maetzig (1911), Helmut Dietl (1944), Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck (1973), Peter Fleischmann (1937), and Frank Beyer (1932). After him are Curtis Bernhardt (1899), Helma Sanders-Brahms (1940), Erik Ode (1910), E. A. Dupont (1891), Georg Jacoby (1882), and Gerhard Lamprecht (1897).

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