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FILM DIRECTOR

Jacques Feyder

1885 - 1948

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Jacques Feyder (French: [fɛ.dɛʁ]; 21 July 1885 – 24 May 1948) was a Belgian actor, screenwriter and film director 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 75,085 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Jacques Feyder is the 393rd most popular film director (up from 1,279th in 2019), the 258th most popular biography from Belgium (down from 233rd in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Belgian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jacques Feyder ranks 393 out of 1,581Before him are Marcel Camus, John McTiernan, Sam Wood, Jerzy Hoffman, Yuri Norstein, and Mario Camus. After him are Shin Sang-ok, Joe Dante, Karel Reisz, Claude Zidi, Kaneto Shindo, and Maurice Pialat.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Jacques Feyder ranks 80Before him are Nikolai Krylenko, Władysław Raczkiewicz, Sydney Chaplin, Frank Knight, Friedrich Kellner, and Lev Rudnev. After him are John Edensor Littlewood, Constantin Sănătescu, Theodor Kaluza, Lilly Reich, Dimitrios Loundras, and Camille Chautemps. Among people deceased in 1948, Jacques Feyder ranks 68Before him are Tony Garnier, Harry Dexter White, Princess Marie Louise of Hanover, Solomon Mikhoels, Manuel Ponce, and Wilhelm Ritter von Thoma. After him are Radola Gajda, Sabahattin Ali, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Yahya Muhammad Hamid ed-Din, Kâzım Karabekir, and Archduke Peter Ferdinand of Austria.

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In Belgium

Among people born in Belgium, Jacques Feyder ranks 258 out of 1,019Before him are James Weddell (1787), Princess Anne, Duchess of Calabria (1938), Prince Alexandre of Belgium (1942), Stromae (1985), Princess Joséphine Caroline of Belgium (1872), and Pierre Deligne (1944). After him are Louis Philippe, Crown Prince of Belgium (1833), François Duquesnoy (1597), Adam Frans van der Meulen (1632), Georges Leekens (1949), David Teniers the Elder (1582), and Joos de Momper (1564).

Among FILM DIRECTORS In Belgium

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

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