1885 - 1948
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.
Page Views (PV)
Historical Popularity Index (HPI)
Languages Editions (L)
Effective Languages (L*)
Coefficient of Variation (CV)
Among film directors, Jacques Feyder ranks 393 out of 1,581. Before 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.
1912 - 1982
HPI: 55.54
Rank: 387
1951 - Present
HPI: 55.53
Rank: 388
1883 - 1949
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 389
1932 - Present
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 390
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 391
1935 - 2021
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 392
1885 - 1948
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 393
1926 - 2006
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 394
1946 - Present
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 395
1926 - 2002
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 396
1934 - Present
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 397
1912 - 2012
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 398
1925 - 2003
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 399
Among people born in 1885, Jacques Feyder ranks 80. Before 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 68. Before 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.
1885 - 1938
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 74
1885 - 1947
HPI: 56.18
Rank: 75
1885 - 1965
HPI: 56.05
Rank: 76
1885 - 1972
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 77
1885 - 1970
HPI: 55.89
Rank: 78
1885 - 1956
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 79
1885 - 1948
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 80
1885 - 1977
HPI: 55.25
Rank: 81
1885 - 1947
HPI: 55.20
Rank: 82
1885 - 1954
HPI: 54.83
Rank: 83
1885 - 1947
HPI: 54.77
Rank: 84
1885 - 1971
HPI: 54.36
Rank: 85
1885 - 1963
HPI: 54.10
Rank: 86
1869 - 1948
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 62
1892 - 1948
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 63
1879 - 1948
HPI: 55.87
Rank: 64
1890 - 1948
HPI: 55.83
Rank: 65
1886 - 1948
HPI: 55.68
Rank: 66
1891 - 1948
HPI: 55.40
Rank: 67
1885 - 1948
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 68
1892 - 1948
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 69
1907 - 1948
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 70
1903 - 1948
HPI: 55.02
Rank: 71
1869 - 1948
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 72
1882 - 1948
HPI: 54.42
Rank: 73
1874 - 1948
HPI: 54.38
Rank: 74
Among people born in Belgium, Jacques Feyder ranks 258 out of 1,019. Before 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).
1787 - 1834
HPI: 55.46
Rank: 252
1938 - Present
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 253
1942 - 2009
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 254
1985 - Present
HPI: 55.43
Rank: 255
1872 - 1958
HPI: 55.39
Rank: 256
1944 - Present
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 257
1885 - 1948
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 258
1833 - 1834
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 259
1597 - 1643
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 260
1632 - 1690
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 261
1949 - Present
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 262
1582 - 1649
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 263
1564 - 1635
HPI: 55.24
Rank: 264
Among film directors born in Belgium, Jacques Feyder ranks 3. Before 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).
1928 - 2019
HPI: 67.31
Rank: 1
1950 - 2015
HPI: 56.63
Rank: 2
1885 - 1948
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 3
1957 - Present
HPI: 52.11
Rank: 4
1926 - 2002
HPI: 51.02
Rank: 5
1928 - 2023
HPI: 48.10
Rank: 6
1929 - 2012
HPI: 46.32
Rank: 7
1945 - 2008
HPI: 40.72
Rank: 8
1977 - Present
HPI: 36.76
Rank: 9