FILM DIRECTOR

James Wong

1959 - Today

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James Wong (born April 20, 1959) is an American television producer, writer, and retired film director. Wong is best known for co-writing episodes of the Fox science fiction supernatural drama series The X-Files with his writing partner, Glen Morgan. Morgan and Wong are founders of the Hard Eight Pictures and co-created Space: Above and Beyond. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Wong has received more than 26,923 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). James Wong is the 518th most popular film director (up from 554th in 2019), the 20th most popular biography from Hong Kong (up from 25th in 2019) and the most popular Chinese Film Director.

Memorability Metrics

  • 27k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 54.20

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 8.41

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 1.42

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of James Wongs by language

Over the past year James Wong has had the most page views in the with 18,547 views, followed by Japanese (17,312), and Russian (8,645). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (221.57%), Catalan (50.31%), and Irish (38.36%)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, James Wong ranks 518 out of 2,041. Before him are Sam Wood, Clarence Brown, Fernando Solanas, Boris Barnet, Mike Leigh, and Néstor Almendros. After him are Luis García Berlanga, Claude Autant-Lara, Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Peter Yates, Seijun Suzuki, and Tom Tykwer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1959, James Wong ranks 113. Before him are Vazgen Sargsyan, Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Baron Waqa, Anatoly Onoprienko, Andrew Fire, and Thomas Ravelli. After him are Baltazar Maria de Morais Júnior, Koichi Tanaka, Marcus Miller, Ralf Moeller, Alessandro Nannini, and Pietro Vierchowod.

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In Hong Kong

Among people born in Hong Kong, James Wong ranks 20 out of 115. Before him are Carrie Lam (1957), Nora Miao (1952), Maggie Cheung (1964), Raymond Chow (1927), Jacky Cheung (1961), and Anita Mui (1963). After him are William Anders (1933), John Tong Hon (1939), John Lee Ka-chiu (1957), Eric Tsang (1953), Alan Tam (1950), and Tony Leung Ka-fai (1958).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Hong Kong

Among film directors born in Hong Kong, James Wong ranks 1. After him are Johnnie To (1955), Corey Yuen (1951), Ronny Yu (1950), Wayne Wang (1949), Ringo Lam (1955), Benny Chan (1961), Stanley Tong (1960), and Peter Chan (1962).

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Filmography

American Horror Story
Director
An anthology horror drama series centering on different characters and locations, including a house with a murderous past, an asylum, a witch coven, a freak show, a hotel, a farmhouse in Roanoke, a cult, the apocalypse and a summer camp.
8.141 / 10
Final Destination 3
Director
A student's premonition of a deadly rollercoaster ride saves her life and a lucky few, but not from death itself – which seeks out those who escaped their fate.
Feb 9o 20066.1 / 10
Final Destination
Director
After a teenager has a terrifying vision of him and his friends dying in a plane crash, he prevents the accident only to have Death hunt them down, one by one.
Mar 17o 20006.595 / 10