FILM DIRECTOR

Jean Grémillon

1902 - 1959

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Jean Grémillon (French: [gʁemijɔ̃]; 3 October 1901 – 25 November 1959) was a French film director. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jean Grémillon has received more than 54,201 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jean Grémillon is the 887th most popular film director (up from 912th in 2019), the 4,043rd most popular biography from France (down from 3,899th in 2019) and the 110th most popular French Film Director.

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  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.61

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.52

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Jean Grémillon ranks 887 out of 2,041. Before him are Anthony Harvey, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina, Mitchell Leisen, David Cherkassky, Bob Gale, and Mikael Håfström. After him are Régis Wargnier, Pyotr Chardynin, Luca Guadagnino, Giuseppe Amato, Tadashi Imai, and Jack Cardiff.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1902, Jean Grémillon ranks 208. Before him are Yevgeny Petrov, Dirk Brouwer, Panagiotis Kanellopoulos, Strom Thurmond, Herma Szabo, and Lūcija Garūta. After him are Luo Ronghuan, Gustav Heinrich Ralph von Koenigswald, André Patry, Zaharia Stancu, Milman Parry, and Paul Yoshigoro Taguchi. Among people deceased in 1959, Jean Grémillon ranks 132. Before him are Jacob Epstein, Jerry Unser Jr., Sidney Robinson, Nicholas Charnetsky, Esfir Shub, and Giuseppe Bottai. After him are Irving Cummings, Nazik al-Abid, Max O. Lorenz, Hans Henny Jahnn, Felix Jacoby, and Ragnar Nurkse.

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In France

Among people born in France, Jean Grémillon ranks 4,043 out of 6,770. Before him are Saïd Taghmaoui (1973), Émile Duclaux (1840), Ernest Labrousse (1895), Bernard Genghini (1958), Victor Lanoux (1936), and Jean-Baptiste Marchand (1863). After him are René Maire (1878), Claude Gaspard Bachet de Méziriac (1581), Henri Jobier (1879), Régis Wargnier (1948), Jean-Claude Mézières (1938), and Françoise Rosay (1891).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, Jean Grémillon ranks 110. Before him are Jean-Pierre Ponnelle (1932), Henri Decoin (1890), Raoul Coutard (1924), Raymond Bernard (1891), Jean Becker (1933), and Jeannot Szwarc (1937). After him are Régis Wargnier (1948), Gérard Pirès (1942), Yves Boisset (1939), Philippe Rousselot (1945), Christophe Gans (1960), and Justine Triet (1978).

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Filmography

Stormy Waters
Director
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
Nov 27th 19416.9 / 10
Lady Killer
Director
Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is beautiful and lives in luxury. He lends her a large amount of money, which she loses gambling. Then she drops him. But Lucien is now in love, and once demobilized, he goes to Paris to find her again. But he's not so sexy without his uniform, and Madeleine and him do not belong to the same milieu.
Sep 15th 19377.015 / 10
The Woman Who Dared
Director
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family
Feb 3rd 19447.1 / 10