FILM DIRECTOR

James Whale

1889 - 1957

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James Whale (22 July 1889 – 29 May 1957) was an English film director, theatre director and actor, who spent the greater part of his career in Hollywood. He is best remembered for several horror films: Frankenstein (1931), The Old Dark House (1932), The Invisible Man (1933) and Bride of Frankenstein (1935), all considered classics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Whale has received more than 1,293,047 page views. His biography is available in 29 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). James Whale is the 735th most popular film director (down from 649th in 2019), the 2,589th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,419th in 2019) and the 54th most popular British Film Director.

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  • 51.24

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 29

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.59

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.05

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, James Whale ranks 735 out of 2,041. Before him are Hans Hass, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Konrad Wolf, Jaromil Jireš, Pupi Avati, and Karel Lamač. After him are Gustav von Wangenheim, Fernando Trueba, Karl Freund, Ryan Murphy, Marc Forster, and František Vláčil.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, James Whale ranks 166. Before him are W. S. Van Dyke, Ernest Marsden, Laureano Gómez, Ralph H. Fowler, Louis Van Hege, and Dorothy Gibson. After him are Marcel Pilet-Golaz, Erich Pommer, Recep Peker, Alfonso Reyes, Amrit Kaur, and Zofia Kossak-Szczucka. Among people deceased in 1957, James Whale ranks 133. Before him are Sadri Maksudi Arsal, Augusto Genina, Ralph Benatzky, John Sealy Townsend, Othmar Schoeck, and Grace Coolidge. After him are Óscar Domínguez, William Cameron Menzies, Oldřich Duras, Josephine Hull, Harald Sverdrup, and Kulyash Baiseitova.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, James Whale ranks 2,589 out of 8,785. Before him are Douglas Bader (1910), Henry Maitland Wilson (1881), Gayatri Devi (1919), Ian McDonald (1946), Bob Anderson (1922), and Anthony Berkeley Cox (1893). After him are Edmund of Woodstock, 1st Earl of Kent (1301), Flora Robson (1902), Edward Robert Hughes (1851), Arthur Kinnaird, 11th Lord Kinnaird (1847), Vanessa Kirby (1988), and Ernest William Brown (1866).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In United Kingdom

Among film directors born in United Kingdom, James Whale ranks 54. Before him are John Madden (1949), Paul Greengrass (1955), Robert Stevenson (1905), Terence Davies (1945), Richard Marquand (1937), and J. Stuart Blackton (1875). After him are Stephen Daldry (1960), Terence Fisher (1904), Laura Mulvey (1941), Andrew V. McLaglen (1920), Sally Potter (1949), and Edmund Goulding (1891).

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