FILM DIRECTOR

Jacques Feyder

1885 - 1948

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Jacques Feyder (French: [fɛ.dɛʁ]; 21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian film director, screenwriter and actor who worked principally in France, but also in the US, Britain and Germany. He was a director of silent films during the 1920s, and in the 1930s he became associated with the style of poetic realism in French cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jacques Feyder has received more than 80,415 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 29 in 2019). Jacques Feyder is the 359th most popular film director (up from 392nd in 2019), the 246th most popular biography from Belgium (up from 258th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belgian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jacques Feyder ranks 359 out of 2,041. Before him are Guy Hamilton, Valerio Zurlini, François Ozon, Mikio Naruse, Clifford Odets, and Juan Antonio Bardem. After him are Jacques Audiard, Irvin Kershner, Kinji Fukasaku, Walerian Borowczyk, Ladislas Starevich, and Jacques Doillon.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Jacques Feyder ranks 81. Before him are John Edensor Littlewood, St John Philby, Camille Chautemps, Dora Pejačević, Frank Jack Fletcher, and Harlow Shapley. After him are Bess Truman, Platt Adams, Friedrich Kellner, Noman Çelebicihan, Theodor Kaluza, and Lev Rudnev. Among people deceased in 1948, Jacques Feyder ranks 65. Before him are Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari, Egon Kisch, Mitsumasa Yonai, Irmfried Eberl, Radola Gajda, and Hasan Salama. After him are Therese Brandl, Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma, Harry Dexter White, Manuel Ponce, Arshile Gorky, and Paul Wegener.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jacques Feyder ranks 246 out of 1,190. Before him are Romelu Lukaku (1993), Emile Vandervelde (1866), Guy Thys (1922), Henri Milne-Edwards (1800), Antoine Wiertz (1806), and Guillaume Lekeu (1870). After him are Rembert Dodoens (1517), François Duquesnoy (1597), Henry III, Duke of Brabant (1231), John II, Duke of Brabant (1275), Stromae (1985), and Eugène Charles Catalan (1814).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Belgium

Among film directors born in Belgium, Jacques Feyder ranks 3. Before him are Agnès Varda (1928), and Chantal Akerman (1950). After him are André Delvaux (1926), Jaco Van Dormael (1957), Raoul Servais (1928), Ulu Grosbard (1929), Gérard Corbiau (1941), Benoît Lamy (1945), Felix van Groeningen (1977), Lukas Dhont (1991), and Joachim Lafosse (1975).

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Filmography

Carnival in Flanders
Director
Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic like rats on a sinking ship, the brave female citizens, led by the bold wife of the burgomaster, decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet.
Dec 3o 19357.3 / 10
Faces of Children
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A young boy living in the Swiss Alps struggles to come to terms with his mother's death and his father's remarriage which brings a new mother and step-sister into his family.
Jan 24o 19257.7 / 10
The Kiss
Director
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
Nov 15o 19296.2 / 10